Poetical Effays for June, 1780. ODE for his MAJESTY'S BIRTH-DAY, June 4, 1780. Written by WILLIAM WHITEHEAD, Efq; STILL o'er the deep does Britain reign, As the young eagle to the blaze of day Prophetic as the flame that spread Her Monarch ftill the Trident bear; Her Monarch still the Trident bear; Extra from the "Bodleian Library," a NOW to the fhades of Rhedycine re- Far from the roar of elements she lov'd, Some Cook,the great Columbus of the South, The remains of Sir Francis Drake's ship formed into a chair. Sons of the waves, and monarchs of the main, come, Raptur'd shall read the hero's high renown, We wish our limits would have allowed our adding the just tribute which the poet pays at the conclufion to the poetical talents of Mr. Warton.-On the whole, though the track is untrodden, the poem is truly literary, and has done great juftice to the characters of Sir Tho. Bodley, and many other learned perfons, the patrons of science, and the founders and fupporters of this noble institution. VERSES fent by a Gentleman to his Lady, A Can feparate what was never join'd. Occafioned by feeing Correggio's Picture of Mer- T For Venus pray'd he might be taught. Taught Taught! what? To read. But why to read? Love knows the language of the eye; 'No other learning does he need, Nor can be cheated by a lie. She faw what times were coming on; Did from Olympus' top difmount, No! no! it was to caft account. But have a care, thou filly boy! For 'tis a moft pernicious art; If learnt, it will thy power deftroy; The Tongue may love, but not the Heart. Mr. URBAN, T is with pleasure that I fend you the following copy of verfes, written by a gentleman well known in the literary world. They have indeed already been printed and handed about in fome parts of North Wales. However, they are not fo publickly known as it is wished they fhould be; and it will be only anticipating their future appearance in Mr. Pennant's fecond volume of his l'our thro' Wales. By inferting them in your Magazine you will no lefs oblige your numerous readers in Wales, than Your occafional correfpondent, J. W. Thomæ Pennant, Armigero, Cambro-Britanno, iter in Cambria facienti, carmina hæc cum falute fummâque obfervantiâ dedicat Popularis ejus & Amicus, R. W. DUM Tu per Patriæ fines & rura vagaris, Perlege verficulos, fi vacet hora, meos; Et Latios ne fperne modos, feu ripa Sabrina Detinet errantes, feu Venefreda, pedes: Altera virgineo de fanguine dicta, fed illa Clarior ob mortem, merfa Sabrina, tuam. Que Tibi debentur laudes, quam fama peren nis Pingenti indigenæ flumina & arva foli! Lætitia exultet Snöcdon; ovet unda Conovî; Deva triumphantes in mare volvat aquas. Reliquias vifurus adest, quas Cambria jactat, Illuftrans patrios advena gratus agros; Ut tumulum antiquum referet quo dormiit Arthur, Quo Tudor, & cineres quæ tegat urna tuos, Glyndwr armipotens, & Te, generose Llewellyn, Mufaque quam vetuit, Boädicea, mori. Quid taceam, Germane, tuam fine fanguine palmam ? Victaque Cambriacis Saxôna tela fonis? Inclinate comas, & eunti plaudite, quercus; Atque ave felici nobile tendat iter. Scriptorem intereà per fomnia cingite, Bardi, Et plufquàm humanam confiteatur opem : Audiat, aut audire chorum videatur inanem, Nefcio quid patriâ dulce fonare lyrâ. x fomno tali fub imagine fæpe refurgat Admirans veterum fortia facta patrûm. Vidifti rapidas quo turbine torqueat undas Rhaïder, & quâ vi præcipitata ruat; Nonne juvat terretque fimùl, dum concava faxa mum: Verberat ille nigræ fpumeus horror aquæ ? Nubila vidifti fuperantem Möcloammam, Sub pedibufque tuis intonuiffe polum : Lubricus in fummâ Plinlim monis arce stetisti, Cum nivis hybernam conderet imber hu [tâm Quinetiam & vetitos lucos, atque abdita vaAtria, mortali vix adeunda pede, Cum Druidæ, cum Mona fuit, fecurus adire Aufus es, & facri mira referre loci. Aufus es aërium Snöedona afcendere, & ecquid Nativis potuit grandius effe jugis? Pulchrius hic ecquid jactavit Scotia ? & illic Quod non invenias, Hebrides ecquid habent? Olim erat ifius Caractacus incola terræ, Nomen adhuc mufis, Cambria, dulce tuis; Quippe diu hoftiles haftas, dum fata finebant, Repulit, & turpi regia colla jugo Inviolata diu tenuit Patriæ ille Redemptor, Contemptorque Aquila, Roma fuperba,tuæ. At feges eft, ubi magna stetêre palatia quon dam O nata terno fonte volubilis, Lambis aquâ metuente vinc'lum. Exiguas numerare turres," [A tranflation will be acceptable.] * That the Kings of Mercia had a palace at Kingsland (whence, probably, its name) appears from hence-but what ruins remain we know not, and should be glad to be informed by fome Herefordfhire correfpondent. EDIT. HISTORICAL CHRONICLE. May 26. Endes the malt aft which received the Ld Geo. Gordon, after reading and commenting on Adm. Rodney's letter in the London Gazette Extraordinary (see p. 250), moved, "That the laft difpatches from Sir Geo. Brydges Rodney to the admiralty-office hould be laid before the house;" but this mation palled in the negative, on the ground that any cenfure that might be paffed fhould not affect the capt ins, if it should be thought just to bring any of them to trial, The general aflembly of the Church of Scotland at Edinburgh met this day, to take into confideration the king's letter, in which his majefty tells that venerable body, "that it is with the greatest fatisfaction that he takes this opportunity of renewing those affurances of royal fupport, which they fo truly and defervedly merit; and further, that they may be allured, that the Prefbyterian Church of Scotland, as by law established, will always meet with royal fupport in the full enjoyment of their rights and privileges." In anfwer to which a most loyal address was agreed to. May 29. He At a meeting held at Coachmakers-hall, Ld Geo. Gordon read an extract from a Popifh catechifm just published; likewise an indulgence granted by the pope this prefent year; and from thefe publications exhorted his hearers to form their own ideas of the alarming progrefs that popery was making, and to join with him in oppofing it. then moved," that the whole body of the Proteftant affociation do attend in St. George's Fields on Friday the ad of June, at ten o'clock in the morning, to accompany him to the H. of C. in the delivery of the Proteftant petition;" which was carried una nimously with burits of applaufe. He then told them, that it lefs than 20,000 of his fellow citizens attended him on that day, he would not prefent their petition. At the fame time he recommended the ftrict oblervance of order. May 30. Ld G. Gordon gave notice in parliament, that he should have the honour to prefent the petition of the Proteftant Affociation of London, &c. on Friday next, and that the whole affociation proposed to accompany their peti tion to the house. He at the fame time prefented the petition of the corporation of High Wickham, for the repeal of the late tion should be then read, which was agreed to, and ordered to lie upon the table. A fervant of farmer Hudfon at Edmonton marfh fide, returning from London in liquor, was run over by his own cart loaded with dung, juft by Newington bridge, and killed on the spot. The fummer theatre in the Haymarket was opened with a new prelude, intituled, "The Manager in Diftrefs," which was received with uncommon applause. The common council of London agreed to fupport the petition of the Proteftant affociation. May 31. A eaufe between two parishes was determined, which should be made as public as poflible. A family had been certificated from the parish of Fretherae to that of Frampton in Gloucestershire. The family had returned, and had lived 18 years in their own parish of Fretherne; but it happened, that the wife of one of the fons, who had been a hired fervant a whole year in Frampton, and had gained a fettlement by fervitude in no other parish, became chargeable to the parish of Frampton. And on the mistaken notion, that no one of a certificated family can ever become chargeable to the parish who has fuch certificate to produce, the parish of Frampton grounded their ples, which was unanimously determined against them. THURSDAY, June 1. The copy of a confidential letter, tåken from the Pennfylvania Gazette, published by order of Congrefs, and there faid to be written by Gen. Sir Henry Clinton to Ld Geo. Germaine, appeared in all the London newspapers, but has fince been reprefented as fpurious and a moft artful forgery, contrived as the laft effort of a defpairing cause to keep up the fpirits of the people. Ld Shelburne moved in the upper house, "That an humble addrefs be prefented to his majefty, praying, that he would be graciofly pleafed to order the declaration of the 18th of April laft, relative to the Dutch, and all other papers relating thereto, to be laid before the house. Ld Stormont oppofed the motion, on the ground of its being unfit for parliamentary difcuffion. Refolutions of fupply reported this day in the houfe of commons, and agreed to, viz. 47961. for Nova Scotia; 3160l. for furveys in N. America; 13,000l. for British fettlements in Africa; 28661. for Georgia; 3950l. for Eaf Florida; 3900l. for Weft Florida; 3150l. for the island of St. John; and 25,000l. for buildings at Somerset-house. About two o'clock in the afternoon a most violent form of hail laid open almost لله all the houfes in Warminster, Wilts, by detroying the glafs in the windows exposed to the S. and S.S. W. The hail-ftones measured from three to nine inches in circumference. It was equally felt in many other places, particularly at Oxford, where about fix in the evening a ball of fire entered the houfe of Mr. Meredith, a cutler of that city, thivered the ftair-cafe, reduced a chimney-glafs to powder, pierced a mahogany cheft as if with small hot, melted a bell-metal mortar, beat down the maid- fervant, and did other damage; but what is remarkable, no one was killed, tho' people were fitting in the rooms where the impreflions of the fire were most manifeft. At Ld Weymouth's feat at Longleat, the glass of the hot-houfe, melon and cucumber frames, were fhattered in a thoufand pieces; geefe, ducks, and poultry of all forts, were killed wherever they were expofed; in short, fuch general deftruction was never known from a tempeft in the memory of the oldest man living. Friday 2. The people affembled in St. George's Fields, as had been previously agreed upon at Coachmaker's hall, which the whole kingdom have reason to lament. See the full account, p. 265. A fpecial caufe was decided in favour of the contractors for ferving the artillery with horfes, viz. Whether they were to be received by innkeepers, &c. as dragoon and other hories belonging to the army. The judges were of opinion, that, while they continued in the fervice of government, they should be fo received. * Being the birth-day of Prince Erneft Av guftus, their majefties received the usual compliments at the fame time. This day a proclamation was iffued, promifing that if any perfon fhall difcover any other perfon who directly or indirectly were concerne in pulling down, or beginning to pull down, or in setting fire to, the chapel of any public minifter, fo as that the perfon or perfons difcovered may be profecuted for the fame, fuch difcoverer hall receive as a reward the fum of five hundred pounds, and also his majesty's pardon, &c. to be paid by the treasurer of the exchequer. Tusjday 6. The lords of parliament adjourned to a diftant day, there being no precedent of their lordships fitting and voting furrounded by an armed force. But notwithstanding the avenues to the commons houfe were filled with the multitude, more than 200 members attended in their places, and proceeded to bufinefs; a more particular account of which fhall be given in the narrative of riotous proceedings already begun, fee p. 265. Their royal highnefies the dukes of Glou→ cefter and Cumberland offered their fervices to his majesty on quelling the late tumult, which was gracioufly accepted. This evening the mob became defperate, and proceeded to commit the most horrible outrages. They burnt Ld Mansfield's house, with all his books, MSS. pictures, and valuable furniture; fet fire to the gaois, releafed the prifoners, and ftrengthened their party by murderers, convicts, daring thieves, and villains of every denomination, and from one end of the city to the other nothing was to be feen but flames and devaftation. Those who were spectators from the adjacent hills beheld with horror a combination of fires, and thought of nothing less than London and Weftminster perishing by one general conflagration. Fortunately for England' the court and city caught the alarm, and by a joint effort of the civil and military power the nation was faved from the brink of ruin. Wednesday 7 A proclamation was iffued, importing, that his Majefty, in order to use the most effectual means to fupprefs fuch rebellious and traiterous attempts, had given the most direct orders to all officers, by an immediate exertion of their utmost force, to reprefs the fame. In the evening a court of common coun→ cil met, and drew up a petition, praying a repeal of the obnoxious act. At the fame time feveral refolutions paffed for the defence of the city. A new meeting-houfe, lately erected by the fide of the Chace at Enfield, under the patronage and at the expence of Mr. Dupont, mafter of the Caftle and Falcon inn in Alderfgate-frect, was opened and confecrated by prayers by Mr. Woodgate and Mr. Med ley, HISTORICAL ley, and an extempore fermon of an hour and half by Mr. Brewer, from Pf. cii. ver. 13, 14, Mr. Medley preached another fermon of equal length in the afternoon, and a numerous company dined at the George inn. Thursday 8. The houfe of commons adjourned to Monday the 19th inftant. A regular military guard was posted in St. Paul's Church-yard, and apartmen ́s al lotted for the foldiers in the church. ble is established for the officers at the exA fapence of the ward, and each foldier is al lowed a pound of meat, a pound of bread, and two pints of porter, every day. The grand fleet under Adm. Geary failed from Portsmouth this morning. A meffage was fent from his Majesty to each of the 12 judges, offering them the protection of the military; to which Judge Gould returned the following anfwer: "That he had grown old under the protection of the English laws; that he was perfuaded, however fome perfons might be milled, the people in general loved and respected the laws; and f great was his own attachment to them, that he would rather die under thofe, than live under the protection of any other laws." Friday 9. A camp was compleatly formed in St. James's Park, to be in readinefs in cafe of any fudden alarm. The lord mayor of London was fummoned before the privy council; but difcharged the fame evening. Saturday 10. At a court of lieutenancy held at Guildhall, ordered, that a commiflion of staff officers of the fix regiments of city train-bands do affemble every evening, by eight of the clock, compleatly armed, in order to patrole the streets for the common fafety till four in the morning, and to take into cuftody all fufpicious perfons. Sunday 11. CHRONICLE. 295 March, on which day the landing on Charles Town Neck was effected; a depot formed; the admiral had p fed the bar, and the effential affiftance of officers and feamen had of the royal navy for my overations. I was gia, under Brig. General Paterson, which, alfo ftrengthened with the corps from Geor through a country interfected with rivers, and rendered more difficult by heavy rains, had advanced, not unoppofed, in the face of 11. days, from Savannah to Ashley river. "The paffage of Afhley, unter the conwithout refiftance on the part of the enemy, duct of Capt Liphinftone, was accomplished "The army, on the night of the rit of April, broke ground within 800 yards of the rebels works. "By the 8th our guns were mounted in battery; and the admiral paffed into CharlesSullivan's land. Town harbour under a very heavy fire from "At this period we judged it advifeable to fend the enclofed fummons to the place, which returned the answer I have the honour to tranfmit with it *. A 2d parallel was compleated on the 19th of "The batteries were opened the next day, *Sir H. Clinton and Vice-adm. Arbuthnot, regretting the effufion of blood, and the diftreffes which must now commence, deem it confonant to humanity to warn the town and garrison of Charles-Town of the havock ened, from the formidable force furrounding and defolation with which they are threatthem by land and fea. An alternative is faving their lives and property (contained in offered at this hour to the inhabitants of the town), or of abiding by the fatal confe quences of a cannonade and storm. ty, or its commander in a wanton indiffer"Should the place in a fallacious fecurience to the fate of its inhabitants, delay the furrender, or fhould public ftores or shipping be destroyed, the refentment of an exaiperated foldiery may intervene; but the fame Something like martial law was proclaim- mild and compaffionate offer can never be ed at Bath. Monday 12. The inhabitants of Southwark prefented an addrefs of thanks to the King, for his Majefty's feafonable interpofition, by fending a military force to their relief. Tuesday 13. The examination of the prifoners apprehended for being concerned in the late tumults took place at Guildhall, but no perfon of confequence was brought to the bar. Thursday 15. The Earl of Lincoln, aid-de-camp to Gen. Clinton, arrived at Whitehall with dispatches for Ld Geo. Germaine, of which the follow-ing are the fubftance: My Lord, Charles-Town, May 13, 1780. "I will not trouble your lordship with a repetition of the delays and difficulties which protracted ferious operation until the 29th of renewed. by fummon the town, do not apprehend fo "The refpective commanders, who Herebut rather that the gates will be opened, and rath a part as further refiftance will be taken; themselves received with a degree of confi dence which will forebode further reconciliation. H. CLINTON. Copy of a letter from Maj. Gen. Lincoln to Apr. 10. M. ARBUTHNOT." Gen. Clinton and Vice-adm. Arbuthnot, dated Charles-Town, April 10, 1780. "Gentlemen, I have received your fummons of this date. Sixty days have paffed fince it has been known that your intentions against this town were hoftile, in which time has been afforded to abandon it; but duty and inclination point to the propriety of fupporting it to the la extremity. B. LINCOLN (Signed) Apr. |