BEG
BEGIN, my fondeft Mufe, in partial

The pleafing task of yielding merit praife.
So fhall my veric each rifing with proclaim ;
And foftly flowing, eccho Delia's fame.

Come then Apello, mufic's guardian fire,

To thee the sive bard refigns his caufe, With ardent zal his glowing breaft inspire, And crown a tribute, fraught with fair apHlaufe.

Then may the conscious muse exulting plead, Plead the foft influence gratitude conveys Then may the bard, from rifing, caution freed,

Exalt cach Arain, replete with Delia's praife. But hark! the God, propitious, claimsan, In founds the generous heart expands to War: His form, a femblante, fair as fmiling youth, His voice, a language, sweet as article truths

Mortal, he fays, thy flattering hopes refigni

"Tis not for thee t'afcribe the plaudits due, A tafk like that requires a pen divine,

Sublimer far than e'er ambition knew. Effays like thefe fair gratitude infpires; But ah they cannot Delia's worth proclaim,

Short are the limits of thy fund defires,

If human cloquence can fpeak her fame, No-fancy here muft form the lovely feene, And foft ideas yield ber generous praife, So that the reign, perfection's darling queen, So fhall the gods approve thy virtuous lays." July, 1775.

Apollo here concludes the pleafing charge,
While eager fancy gently roves at large
Leading the bard to yon aufpicious grove,
A fpot the mufes crown with genuine love;
Where blooming virtue's fairest flow'rs ap-

pear,

And peerless merit meets applaufe fincere. Where Delia's graces charm furrounding minds,

Andworth like her's ftill fond protection finds. Where the bard too, enraptur'd with delight, Makes views like thefe engage his ravishd fight.

And lo! as o'er the fylvan fcene applauding numbers ftand,

Sweet melody approaching near, falutes the fmiling land.

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Till now the tuneful mine advance with confcious truth array'd,

Who, as they bend to Delia's form, thus hail the fav'rite maid.

We came invok'd in virtue's cause,
That fan&tion we avow,

To bind thefe laurels of applaufe,

"

O'er beauty's graceful, brow.
And as we roam'd this earthly sphere,
To fix the happy maid,
Our grand purfuits were finish'd here.
Here dawning merit fray'd.

Here harmony's fweet pow'rs unite,
With mufic's gentler (way,
Each blending influence with delight,
Soft raptures to convey.

To thee, fair nymph, then we confign
This emblem of our care;

Around thy temples let it wine;

"Tis form'd to Aourish there."

The lovely maid, with artif blust

crowned,

In modest filence hears each partial fun.
Then fimiles sent, incdal, div
Wehe acchoing plans
farine,
Grey's 12, Feb. 2.

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A Tranflation of the SERMON without END

He'd got no farther than the introduction; It was in Lent, obferve, but dine they would, So off they march'd, as faft as e'er they could;

The clerk he ftaid,and fip'd (no harm I truft), The confecrated wine, and eat the cruft; This done he fetch'd the keys and gave the preacher, Then faid now I must go, my zealous teacher, 3 B

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To ZELINDA.
AIREST piece of well-form'd earth,
Urge not thus your haughty birth:
'The power which you have o'er us lies
Not in your race but in your eyes:
None but a prince! alas that voice
Confines you to a narrow choice!
Shou'd you no honey vow to tafle,
But what the mafter bees had plac'd
In compass of their cells, how small
A portion to your share wou'd fall?
Nor all appear among thofe few,
Worthy the stock from whence they grew:
The fap which at the root is bred,
In trees, through all the boughs is spread;
But virtues which in parents fhine,
Make not like progrefs through the line.
'Tis not from whom, but where we live;
The place does oft thofe graces give;
Great Julius on the mountains bred,
A flock perhaps, or herd, had led;
He that the world fubdu'd, had been
But the beft wrestler on the green:
"Tis art and knowledge which draw forth
The hidden feeds of native worth;

They blow those sparks and make them rife
Into fuch flames as touch the fhies.
To the old heroes hence was giv'n

A pedigree which reach'd to heaven;

Of mortal feed they were not held,
Which other mortals fo excell'd;"
And beauty too in fuch excefs
As yours, Zelinda, claims no lefe.
Smile but on me, and you fhall scorn
Henceforth to be of princes born.
I can defcribe the fhady grove,
Where your lov'd mother Dept with Jove,
And yet excufe the faultless dame,
Caught with her fpoufe's fhape and name :
Thy matchlefs form will credit bring
To all the wonders I fhall fing.
Cambridge.

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A SONG-unfet.

W. P.

Without any prattle, the foon did ensnart, —
Take a hint, and adorn with a crest !
Get a plumage that's gaudy, but ftill very rare,
'Tis the way for to feather your neft.
You need not be frightned at Cupid, I fwear,
'Tis belief, granames, fay makes the twang:
The doctrine of fellows that ftrive to enfnare
Your perfon, by artful harangue:

In the youth of your life you shou'd rattle the chain,

Aye, with dukes and their coronets jeft: There's nothing fo pretty as gentle difdain, 'Tis the way for to feather your neft.

But when you have fet the adorers in flame (For the age of fifteen will have many,) Remember that titles, and fortune, is fame There is nothing in life now fo pretty. How charming to flutter where'er fashion roves!

Laugh at censure, that prudes can suggest ! But fcandal avaunt! wherever it moves, When a husband can feather your neft.

T. P.

S

YMON does vow, nay he does fw

ear,

He'll dance with none but what are fair;
Suppose we women thou'd difpenfe
Our hands to none but men of fenfe;
Suppofe, well madam,-and what then?
Why Sir, you'd never dance again.

On prefenting a LADY with JESSAMINE,
'VE fearch'd all the jeffamines over,
To find out a wreath for your hair.
II was Philander your lover,

I could not do more for my fair.
Thy temples then let them adorn,
Too long have they bloom'd in the fade;
Nor you my dear Harriot fcorn

This tribute which friendship has paid.

Dont je fuis encore tout confus

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LONDON.

THURSDAY, JUNE 29. 'N Tuesday and yesterday came on to be argued in the court of Chancery, a plea put in by the duchefs of Kingston, to a bill filed by lady Meadows, the fifter and heir at law of the late duke of Kingston. Her ladyship pleaded a fentence of the ecclefiaftical court, by which the was declared to be a fingle woman before the late duke married her, and alfo the probate of the late duke's will; when after a long and folemn debate of the matter, the lord chancellor was pleafed to allow her Grace's plea.

MONDAY, JULY 3.

On Friday in confequence of a warrant granted by William Addington, efq, and backed by juftice Ruffel, of Greenwich, capt. David Ra was brought to town, being charged on fufpicion of murdering capt. John Ferguson, at the Cape of Good Hope,on the 4th of September 1773. He was taken on Wednes day laft on board the Thames Eaft-Indiaman, which hadjust arrived in theDowns from Bombay. He was twice examined on Friday before themagiftrates in Bow-ftreet. The only evidence againft him was John Wordie, late chief mate of the Vanfittart Indiaman, capt. Young, who declared he was the identical David R-, charged with the murder abovementioned, the particulars of which he could only relate from hearfay. Wordie produced a letter from capt. Young after the accident happened, directing him (the mate) not to admit R on board, as he had killed Fergufon, but leave him to public justice on fhore.

Capt. R, in anfwer to this, declared, in a very concife, collected manner, that he wifhed for nothing fo much as to become amenable to the laws of his country; that in the courfe of the voyage he was irritated beyond human forbearance, by a faction of Scotchmen, who, envying his fituation in the army, were continually feeling the pulfe of his courage, and reprefenting him as a bully

and a coward before they arrived at the Cape; that Ferguson had been more particular than the reft in fligmatizing him in this manner; that he ftruck him with his cane firft when the affair happened, and broke his (R-'s) arm, before he had received the mortal wound: that he immediately furrendered himself to the of ficers of juftice, and was tried on the 14th of September, 1773, before the Fifcal, at the Cape, and honourably acquitted. To corroborate this affertion, capt. R- produced a number of depofitions and other documents in the Dutch language, which were examined by a notary prefent, and allowed to agree with

his narration.

In oppofition to this Wordie fwore ftri&t fearch had been made after the prifoner while the fhip lay at the Cape, which was feveral days after the duel, and that he could not be found.

The magiftrates, after confidering the prepriety of detaining the prifoner upon this evidence, at length agreed to commit him to Tothil-Fields Bridewell, upon a ftatute made in the 33d of Hen. VIII. where he is to continue till the pleasure of the privy council, with refpe&t to trying him by a fpecial commision, is known. Mr.Chamberlain, folicitor of the treafury,attended in order to profecute capt. Rat the fuit of the crown; and feveral other gentlemen of eminence in the law were present during his examinations, which did not end till paft feven in the evening.

Capt. R, after his trial at the Cape, went on board a French frigate in the island of Mauritius, where he was treated with the utmoft hofpitality by the governor, who made him a prefent of 100 piftoles. He was afterwards fhipwrecked in the Huntingdon, off. Joanna; he got from thence to Bombay, where he was taken into cuftody; but the council, doubting the legality of their proceedings, fent him home in the Thames Indiaman.

Moft gracious Sovereign,

YOUR majefty's most loyal and dutifulfubjects, the lord mayor, aldermen, and commons,of the City of London, in common council aftembled, with all humility, beg leave to lay themfelves at your royal feet, humbly imploring your benign attention towards the grievous distractions of their fellow fubjects in America.

The characteristic of the people, fire, over whom you reign, has ever been equally remarked for an unparalleled loyalty to their fovereign, whilst the principles of the conftitution have been the rule of his government; as well as a firm oppofition, whenever their rights have been invaded.

Your American fubjects, royal fir, defcended from the fame ancestors with ourselves, appear equally jealous of the prerogatives of freemen, without which they cannot deem themiclves happy.

Their chearful and unafked-for contributions, as well as willing fervices to the mother country, whilft they remained free from the clog of compulfory laws, will, we are fure, plead powerfully with the humanity of your difpofition, for graciously granting them every reasonable or potunity of giving, as freemen, what they feem refolutely determined to refufe, under the injunction of laws made independent of their own confent.

The abhorrence we entertain of civil bloodfhed and confusion will, we truft, fire, if not wholly exculpate us in your royal mind, yet plead powerfully in our favour for the warmth with which we lament thofe measures, whofe destructive principles have driven our American brethren to acts of desperation.

Convinced of the earnest difpofition of the colonists to remain firm in all duteous obedience to the conftitutional authority of this kingdom, permit us, moft gracious fovereign, to befeech you, that thofe operations of force, which at prefent diftract them with the moft dreadful apprehenticas, may be fufpended; and that, uncontrouled by a restraint incom patible with a free government, they may poffefs an opportunity of tendering fuch terms of accommodation, as, we doubt not, will approve them worthy of a diftinguished rank amongst the firmest friends of this country.

Signed by order of court, WIL RIX. To which addrefs and petition his majefty was pleafed to return the following anfwer:

I AM always ready to liften to the duti. ful petitions of my fu jects, and ever happy to comply with their reasonable reques; but while the conflitutional authority of this kingdom is openly refified by a part of my American fubjects, I owe it to the rest of my people, of whofe zeal and fidelity I have had fuch conftant proofs, to continue and enforce thofe measures by which alone their rights and interefts can be atfeited and maintained,

[An addrefs, petition, and remonstrance, couched in very fevere terms, were to have been prefented at the beginning of the month; but his majesty not having pleafed to fignify whether he would receive it on the throne, the remonftrance was laid by, and the preceding petition was drawn up, agreed to, and presented, in lieu of the remonstrance ] TUESDAY 18.

This day appeared in the public papers the copy of a proclamation, iflued by Gen. Gage, at Boston, on the 12th of last month, by which his majefty's pardon is offered to all fuch as fhall lay down their arms; and fuch as do not comply with the terms of the faid proclamation are declared rebels. Meis. Adams and Handcock are, however, denied the benefits of this proclamation, their offences being confidered of too flagitious a nature to admit of any other confideration than that of condign punishment. FRIDAY 23.

Yesterday at a court held at Bridewell Hofpital, Nathaniel Thomas, efq: alderman of Walbrook Ward, was elected treasurer of the faid Hofpital by a great majority; Henry Cranke, efq.was chofen auditor general; and Mrs. Lyon, matron.

SATURDAY 22.

Yesterday was held a court of lord mayor, aldermen, and common conncil, at Guild. hall; when the lord mayor laid before them his majesty's answer to their addrefs and petitien prefented to him yesterday fe'nnight. After which a motion was made for an anfwer to be fent to New York, on the address received from thence, which had been laid before that court, when great debates arose, but the queftion being put, there appeared 56 for fending an answer, and 69 against it. MONDAY 24.

The following is a copy of lord Effingham's letter to Mr. Rix, town-clerk of this city, in confequence of the refolution of the thanks of the lord mayor, aldermen, and livery in common-hall ffembled, voted to him on the 24th ult. for having refufed to draw that fword against the lives and liberties of his feilow fubjects in America, which has hitherto been employed to the honour of his

country.

To William Rix, efq; town-clerk's office, Guildhall, London:

"Sir, I take the first opportunity of acknowledging the receipt of your letter of the 27th ult. inclofing a refolution of the lord mayor, aldermen, and livery of London, in common-hall affembled.

"I beg leave by your means to exprefs to that refpectable body how deeply I am penetrated with a lente of the honour done me by their having approved of my conduct.

"The independence and love of liberty, which have always fo remarkably diftinguished the city of London, are the cause that their approbation must be efteemed by every

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