the hour of infolence, and the mean speech by taking an enlarged view of conceffions that had fince been offered the loffes confequent on the Americas in the day of humiliation. He recapi- war, a war which he termed a cruel tulated the various deceits practifed and diabolical war; and adduced a vaupon the Houfe by ministers on differ- riety of intances of the most favage ent occafions, and the abominable brutality committed in the course of it, falfehoods they had afferted in the face A fuch as burning towns and churches, of the nation to cover their infamous flaughtering in cold blood old mea, proceedings; one day amufing the women, and children, and plundering Houfe with the moft folemn allurances without diftinction friends and foes: of the friendly difpolition of France he exculpated the commanders in chief and Spain, and the next, aligning as a reafon for their humble application to B blame on the nature of their inftruc of thefe enormities, and laid the whole that very congrefs which they affected tions. But if, after all that he land to hold in utter contempt, the difcovery faid, minifters should be voted spotless of a confederacy between them and the by a British parliament, he had till whole Houfe of Bourbon; a discovery this confolation left, that his countrywhich had been announced by a member in that Houfe, and which had been C firmnefs that would have done honour men had behaved with a fpirit and denied [by the minifters N-th and to the antient Romans in the mott virG-rm-n] with an effiontery for tuous period of their republic; and which he could not find a name, as it that in confequence of their determined was impoffible they could be unac- conduct, they could now extort from quainted with the treaty by which they that Houfe fuch conditions, as from were connected. He adverted to the Djuftice and gratitude they would never language of the learned gentleman Ld have obtained. Advocate], who had taken the whole defence of administration on himfelt, himself a party in all that had been Ld Geo. G-rm-ne acknowledged and had left the noble lord in the blue done, and all that had been left undone, ribbon little to lay, except his trite tale refpecting Ireland. No certain inforof poverty, contempt of office, readi- mation, he infifted, could be procured nefs to retire, yet willingness to conti-from that kingdom concerning the c E Much had been faid by the gen- lamitous ftate of its inhabitants, and tlemen on the other fide, of the loyalty the proper means of relieving them, t and affection of Ireland; it was that their parliament bad met, and made loyalty and that affection, he said, which the proper enquiries. It had now mer had encouraged minifters to opprefs he faid, and, after the most deliberare and neglect them; but now that the investigation, were unanimoufly of opipeople of Ireland faw they had nothing nion, that nothing short of a tree trade to expect from British generofity or Bri- would fatisfy the expectations of the tish justice, they found them:elves un- people. der the abfolute neceflity of reforting to granting them all they required. They He, for his part, was for themselves. He made no doubt but that all poffible induftry would be ufed Ged that they thould be made a happy were a loyal people, and justice requisto difunite and tir up divifions amongst people; fo much fo at least as was conshem; the fyftem which has diftin- fiftent with good government, and with guished the prefent reign has been fup- the circumftances of the present peported by that accurfed maxim divide rilous times. He was far from think& impera; but the time was now hap- ing that they meant to extort any thing. pily arrived, when the friends of the conftitution were indiffolubly united, H kingdom entertained other ideas than Men of weight and property, in that and when it was hoped the falvation of that of force. They know too, well this country would be effected by the their own intereft to think of involving joint endeavours of virtuous and honeft their country in a contest which must He concluded his animated inevitably terminate in its ruin. 3.

nue.

men.

With respect to the conftitution of Ire is true, he faid, the charge as applied to land, there were two laws, he faid, that minifters was clearly negative, they had were thought to bear hard upon that king- not done what it was their duty to do; dom; that of the 11th of Hen. VIII.call- but the proof was as clearly affirmative. ed Poyning's Law, which vested a ne. The duty was flated. The address to gative in the privy council of England; the throne, and the King's anfwer, and that afterwards in the fucceeding A prefcribed the duty; and the present reign, for annexing Ireland to the realm complaints of the people proved inconof England; both which, in his opi- trovertibly that nothing had been done nion, were abfolutely neceffary for the with effect in compliance with that full enjoyment of the reciprocal benefits duty. What clearer proof can any man which each derived from the other. It require of criminal neglect than this? was, indeed, a matter of future confi- B Are not the people of Ireland in arms deration, how far the hereditary reve- in confequence of this neglect? Is it nue of Ireland was fubject to the difpo- not acknowledged that a FREE TRADE fal of the crown. It was fo determined is their object, and that nothing lefs in the former reign, and no bad confe- will content them. And will ministers quences had enfued. About the year now dare to refute what had never been 1753, when his father was lord lieute- Cgranted before, and would not now nant in that kingdom, there was, he have been fo peremptorily infifted on, remembered, a confiderable fum in the had they not been encouraged by the treafury unappropriated. A bill was weaknets, the indolence, or, what is paffed in Ireland to apply this fum to worfe, the duplicity of the prefent midomeftic improvement. His late ma- niftry? He adverted to what had fallen jefty being told that this fum was vefted D from the noble lord who spoke laft, in him, returned the bill with the word that minifters, though guilty, ought not confent instead of affent; when it arrived at this critical moment to be proceeded in Ireland it was thrown out by a fall against, left it should retard the main majority, and the money difpofed of bufinels of granting immediate relief. by the King's letter. To Mr. Burke's It was, he faid, his opinion, that no remark, that the parliament of Ireland E reliet would content Ireland fo much as would give but fix months credit to mi- to punish the authors of their diftreffes. nitters, he replied, that parliament was in the right. By the wifhed-for relief, fhould it take place, new regulations must be made; new fources of wealth opened; and the whole commercial F fyllem of that country changed. It was therefore neceflary to pafs a fhort money-bill, in order to give ready admittance to a more enlarged plan of commercial finance. He concluded his fpeech with remarking, that were mi-blame minifters for not doing that nitters as criminal as they were reprefented to be, it would be prudent to defer any further enquiry till the affairs of Ireland were fettled, because they were now in fuch a critical fituation as to admit of no delay.

Mr. D-nn-g replied chiefly to what had been urged by the hon. gentleman on the treafury-bench [Ld Advocate], who had oppofed the motion, because, he faid, the proof on which it retted involved a negative. Such a defence was worthy of fuch a caufe. It

Attor. Gen. [W-rb-ne] clofed the debate by a general review of the principal arguments that had been advanced by oppofition. Ministers have been blamed for not calling parliament fooner, if the fenfe of parliament was neceffary; but at the time of general alarm, when the enemy was at our door, was there a man that thought of calling parliament tegether? Why then

which no man elfe thought of doing? They are charged with the American war, and the American war as the cause of the commotions in Ireland. By the fame parity of reafoning they may be charged with all the misfortunes that Hever hall happen to this kingdom for a thousand generations to come. His reply was acute and plaufibie. At a late hour the question was called for, and negatived 173 to 100.

(Thefe Debates to be continued.)

SIR

MEMOIRS of the Life and Family of the late Sir CHARLES HARDY. IR Charles Hardy, lately deceased, was the grandfon of Captain Thomas Hardy, a diftinguished naval commander in the reign of Q. Anne. After the expedition to Cadiz in 1702, this gentleman, being then captain of the Pembroke, of 60 guns, one of Sir George Rook's fquadron, was fent by the Admiral, September 21, in his way to England with the fleet, together with two other fhips and fome tranfports, to water in Lagos bay on the coaft of Algarre. The land officers (who were on board him) and the chaplain, the Rev. Mr. Beauvoir, going on thore, the latter was informed by the French Conful, who, taking him for his countryman, boafted of their good fortune, that the Spanish plate-fleet, with a good convoy of French men of war, had put in at Vigo, a port of Galicia. With this intelligence the chaplain repaired immediately on board his fhip. Capt. Hardy communicated it to Capt. Wishart, of the Eagle, and the whole fquadron; and a confultation of Captains being held, as the Pembroke was the best failer, and Capt. Hardy was mafter of the intelligence, he was pitched upon to fail a head to find out the fleet. On October 6 he joined it, and acquainted the Admiral with the news. The fleet immediately failed for Vigo. On the 12th the harbour was forced, and all the French and Spanish men of war and galleons, with an immenfe treasure, were taken or deftroyed. Capt. Hardy was fent exprefs to England, and, on being prefented to the Queen, in confideration of his good fervice in gaining and giving the intelligence, the was pleafed to confer upon him the honour of knighthood. In 1707 Sir Thomas Hardy, in the Kent, being ordered with a fquadron to escort the Lisbon trade, on a complaint of the merchants for not chafing fix French men of war, was tried October 10, and honourably acquitted, by a court-martial; whofe fentence was afterwards approved by the Lord High Admiral and fix flagofficers, and alfo by the House of Commons +, fo that he gained greater honour by clearing up this charge than he could have done by barely con

London Gazette, No. 3858. +See the particulars in Campbell's Lives of the Admirals, IV. 42.5.

GENT. MAG. for May, 1780.

voying the fleet, if no fuch accident had happened. In Sir George Byng's victory over the Spaniards off Meffina in 1718, being then Rear Admiral of the Red, he had his flag on board the Bedford. He died Auguft 16, 1732. His eldeft fon, Capt. Charles Hardy, at that time commanding the Carolina yatch, was in July of the fame year chofen a Director of Greenwich Hofpital, and on his (late) Majesty's arriving in his yatch at Gravefend, Sept. 26, he conferred the honour of knighthood on him under the royal standard of England. In January, 1742, Sir Charles Hardy was appointed Commander in Chief of all the ships in the Thames, Medway, &c. and in April he was advanced to the rank of RearAdmiral of the Blue. In December 1743 he was appointed one of the Lords Commiffioners of the Admiralty, in the room of Admiral Cavendish, decealed. In June, 1744, he was appointed Vice Admiral of the Red: and in December following he died. His eldest fon (the late Admiral) was in August 1741 appointed to the command of the Rye, of 40 guns. In January 1755, having been previously knighted, he was appointed CaptainGeneral and Governor in Chief of New York, where he refided fome time. In 1757 he was made RearAdmiral of the Blue; and in June 1758 of the White, in which station he commanded that year, in the Royal William, of 84 guns, under Admiral Bofcawen, at the fiege and reduction of Louisbourg, having previously failed to New York on board the Captain at the beginning of that year. He arrived at St. Helen's with Admiral Bofcawen, Nov. 1. On January 4, 1759, he was married to Mifs Stanyan. In the fame year he was appointed ViceAdmiral of the White, and as fuch commanded under Sir Edward Hawke (in the Union of 90 guns) in the memorable victory off Belleifle Nov. 20. He was alfo fecond in command of the Channel fquadron, in the Bay, &c. during the winter of 1760. In 1764, on Viscount Parker's fucceeding to the peerage, he was elected into parliament for the city of Rochester. On a promotion of flag-officers in 1770, Sir Charles Hardy was made Admiral of the Blue. In 1771, on the death of Admiral Holburne, he was chosen in his room for the borough of Plymouth, which he has reprefented ever fince. He alfo fucceeded in the fame

year

year to the mastership of GreenwichHofpital, on the resignation of Sir George Brydges Rodney. In the laft promotion of flag officers he was promoted to the rank of Admiral of the White, and in 1779 was appointed Commander in Chief of the grand western fquadron. On June 16, having hoifted his flag on board the Victory, he failed with his fleet from Spithead. The events of that campaign are too recent to need recapitulation. Suffice it to fay, that, unhappily reduced by his inferiority to act on the defenfive, his manoeuvres did credit to his abilities. Being appointed to the fame command this present year, on May 17 he again hoifted his flag on board the Victory at Spithead, but having been feized the day before with an inflammation in his bowels, a diforder to which he was very fubject, he died of it on the 19th, at the Fountain Tavern in Portsmouth, about the age of 67.

your

A painted veft Prince Voltiger had on,
Which from a naked Fict his grandfire won.
HOWARD.

. Some names are filled up, of which rarely any other than the initial and final letters are printed. In The Spleen

before mentioned:

When genera) P(rovincial)s fay.

In Stillingfleet's Effay on Converfation: B(entle)y and B(u)rm(a)n; and afterwards Ba(y)l(e)y.

Vol. II. Lord Lyttelton's Monody: O fhades of H(agle)y. 'Pipe of To. bacco. Imitations. 1. Colley Cibber. 2. Ambrofe Philips. 3. Thomfon. 4. Young. 5. Pope. 6. Swift. Edwards's Sonnets.

1. O (Yorke) whom virtue makes the
worthy heir
[eftate.
Of (Hardwicke)'s titles and of (Kent)'s
2. Wifely, O C(lerke).

3.

Where our lov'd H(arsison)'s.

4. C(rufiu)s.

9. To the memory of Mrs. M. Paice.
[his niece, Mifs Mafon, J. D.]
12. J. D.'s conjecture right.
VOL. III. The Duty of employing
(By Mr. Rolle.)

On fcribbling against Genius. (Ib.) The Mimic. By Mr. Pitt. Like drowsy P(owi)s.

Ibid. O S(immond)s.

The Trial of Selim the Perfian. (By Lord Lyttelton*). J. D. fays, by Mr. Moore. I have not examined the internal evidence, and cannot therefore determine the fact.

Mr. URBAN, April 25. Obferve with pleasure, in one's felf. Magazine for March, fome curious illuftrations of Dodley's Poetical Collection. It has been my purpofe for fome time paft to communicate feveral articles of information on the fame fubject; not from my own knowledge, but from manufcript notes inferted in a copy of that book by the late Rev. Charles Godwyn, B. D. Fellow of Baliol College. Mr. Godwyn was a gentleman, who, by his extenfive acquaintance and influence, conferred greater benefits on the caufe of learning than fome who have written many volumes. An inftance that without any other proofs would entitle him to this character, is the donation of his large and valuable collection of modern printed books to the Bodleian Library. In that noble repofitory I have enjoyed the privilege of confulting his hand-writing for the elucidation of various publications, particularly of the work which is the fubject

of this letter.

In Vol. I. the teftimony of your intelligent correfpondent, J. D. in afcribing authors to the different poems, is confirmed throughout by the authority of Mr. Godwyn. In The Spleen is the under-written couplet:

-

This were attempting to put on Raiment from naked bodies won, which I find illuftrated by the following quotation:

You will receive Mr. Godwyn's illuftrations of the three remaining volumes, when J. D. fhall have communicated the fequel of his ingenious remarks: in the mean time, I have this opportunity of conveying fome hints to Mr. Dodsley concerning future editions of the collection. I would propofe that the works of Dr. Johnfon's English Poets be omitted, together with all fuch pieces as fhall be judged trifling and deftitute of merit. To fupply this vacuum, many excellent performances, printed and manufcript, might be rescued from their prefent obfcurity. My own obfervation, which is extremely limited, enables me to affert that compofitions of fuperior value might be recovered, to the exclufion of feveral worthlefs productions, which a mere accident, or trivial circumstance, perhaps, has forced into fome degree of public notice and eftimation. An active refearch would bring to light a multi

This cannot be right. EDIT.

plicity

he late WOLLTEN