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Select Poetry, ancient and modern, for January, 1786.

Thee, lifping infants celebrate,
Ev'n babes thy power proclaim:
Then justly ought thy foes to cease,
And tremble at thy Name.

When I the heavens, thy glorious work,
With curious eye furvey,
The filver moon, the ftarry train,

Which Wildom's hand display:

Lord what is man, that he is blest
With thy peculiar care?
Why on his offspring is conferr'd
Of love fo large a fhare?

To him thou gav's a rank fublime
Near angels, fone of light 1
Him thy beneficence endow'd
With honour, glory, might.
By thee o'er thy ftupendous works
He bears imperial Iway;
By thee they all, with humble awe,
His fovereign will obey.

The bleating flocks, the lowing herds,
And all that tread the plain;
'The feather'd choirs, the finny tribes,
And all that skim the main.

Jehovah Univerfal Lord!

Where wisdom fhines around,
Thy name through earth's remoteft climes
With dignity is crown'd.

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ORD! who fhall in thy temple rett,
Or on thy hill abide?

The man fincere, whofe deeds are just,

And words by truth are tried.

Whofe tongue hath ne'er detraction known;
Who feeks no neighbour's ill:

Who ne'er indulges caufelefs wrath;
Whose car no flanders fill.

Who treats the worthlefs with contempt,

But pious men reveres;
And, ev'n with lofs, to all his vows
Religiously adheres.

Who ufury will ne'er receive,

Nor bribes, to wrong the pure: He who his duty thus puríues, Shall ftand for ever fure.

ED. GOODWIN.

ODE TO LYCE,

ON HER REFUSING TO ADMIT HIS VISITS.

From HORACE, Book III. Ode X.

BY ANNA SEWARD.

Whofe freams the cold vale lowly
lave,

A barbarous Scythian's bride,
Yet, Lyce, you might grieve to hear
Your lover braves the blatts fevere,
That pierce his aching fide.

O liften to the howling groves,
That labour o'er your proud alcovesą,
And hear the jarring door!
Mark how the star, at eve that glows,
Has brightly glaz'd the fettled fnows,
While every leaf is hoar.

Gay Venus hates this cold difdain;
Ceafe then its rigours to maintain,
That fprightly joys impede,

Left the ftrain'd cord, with which you bind
The freedom of my amorous mind,
With rapid whirl recede.
Born of a jocund Tufcan fire,
Did he tranfmit his ardent fire,
That, like Ulyffes' queen,

His beauteous daughter till thould prove
Relentless to the fighs of love,

With frozen heart and mien?
If richest gifts may not obtain,
Nor the blue cheek of shivering fwain,
That bofom's yielding glow j
Or if a faithlefs husband's rage
For a foft Syren of the stage,

And broken nuptial vow;

If weak each jealous pang should prove
To bend your heart to truer love,

Yet pity thefe my pains;

O nymph! than oaks more hard, and fierce
As fnakes that Afric's thicket pierce,

The terror of the plains.

When heavy falls the pattering fhower,
And ftreaming spouts their torrents pour

Upon my thrinking head;

Not always fhall this heart command
Thefe limbs obfequiously to ftand
Beneath your dropping fhed.
Jan. 11, 1786.

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Or on the past refine,

Here many an eve I penfive fit,
No Burke pours out a stream of wit,
No Bofwell joys o'er wine.

At Baia's Spring, of Roman fame,
1 quaff the pure æthereal flame,
To fire my languid blood:
Life's gladfome days, alas! are o'er,
For health's phlogiston now no more
Pervades the ftagnant food.
Studious at times, I ftrive to fcan
Hope's airy dream,-the end of man,
In fyftems wife or oud ;

Select Poetry, ancient and modern, for January, 1786.

With Hume, I Fate and Death defy,
Or vifionary phantoms (py

With Plato and Monbodd.
By metaphyfick whims diftrefs'd,
Still feeptick thoughts difturb my breast,
And reafon's out of tune :-
One ferious truth let none impeach,
'Tis all Philofophy can teach,

That man's an air-balloon.

He rides the sport of every blaft,
Now on the wave, or defert caft,

And by the eddy borne :

Can boafted Reason fteer him right,
Or e'er reftrain his rapid flight,

By Paffion's whirlwind torn?
His mounting fpirit, buoyant air,
But waft him 'midft dark clouds of care,
And life's tempeftuous trouble;
Ev'n though he fhine, in fplendid dyes,
And fport awhile in Fortune's fkies,

Soon bursts the empty bubble.

While through this pathless wafte we ftray,
Are there no flowers to cheer the way?
And must we still repine?
No;-Heaven, in pity to our wocs,
The gently-foothing balm beftows
Of Mufick, Love, and Wine.

Then bid your Delia wake the lyre,
Attun'd to Love and foft Defire,

And fcorn Ambition's strife;
Around let brilliant Fancy play,
To colour with her magick ray
The dreary gloom of life.
Let Beauty speed her fondeft kifs,
The prelude to more perfect blifs,

And fweet fenfations dart;
While wine and frolick mirth infpire
The ardent with, the amorous fire,

And thrill the raptur'd heart. But man has focial dues to pay, Reason and Science claim the fway, And truths fublime difpenfe: For Pleasure's charms we feebly taste, If idly every hour we waite,

The abject flaves of fenfe.

In vain the fpeculative mind
Would metaphyfick regions find,-
Such dark refearches fpare:
The foul etherial notions tire,
As her frail cafe can scarce refpire

In too refin'd an air.

To Sophifts leave their puzzling skill;
The voice of Reafon whispers ftill,
To blefs, is to be bleft;
Illum'd by Virtue's vivid ray,
Enjoy the prefent fleeting day,

And leave to Heaven the reft.
Bath, Sept. 22, 1784.

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not seem to be known, I take the liberty o fending you them.

C. F

TO THE MEMORY OF A FAVOURITE DOS. HEEDLESS of nobler tales this ftone relates

A fpaniel's fimple fate; yon ruthless stream Clos'd o'er her head: gentleft of all her kind

She was, and as the foul of plighted friends
Moft faithful found. When morning chill
with dew

Came dimly rifing o'er the mift-clad hills,
Then would the hie with weariless step to

trace

The leafy wood or thorn-entangled brake
And oft before yon doors at filent eve
She told the ftep unknown, or watch'd all day
Intent, to hail her mafter's lov'd approach
With joyous eye upcaft, and looks that spoke
Her fondness. Blush not, stranger, when
thou hear'ft

Her mafter's hand unpitying to the wave
Condemn'd her helpless age; how foon her
faith

Forgotten! Short's the favour merit finds.

A SON NET.

INSCRIBED ΤΟ ΤΗΣ PHYSICIANS
EXETER, ON THE ILL HEALTH
OF A LADY.

OF

OCTORS, or batchelors, or knights in

DOCT

art,

Whofe fkill this weak defenceless frame

may prove,

If ever virtue did engage your love,
Shield a fair form from death's unerring dart.
So may your growing fame no rival thwart,

But fcience waft your name to courts above,
Where wealth and honour in one circle

move,

And royal fees the bloody hand impart.
Oft had Apollo's fons, with wondrous power,
Rais'd on the dying cheek health's bloom-
ing flower;

For Æfculapius oft had Rome reviv'd ;

And flaves their life and liberty regain'd*, Long ere the infant art to man arriv'd,

Or Mead, or Freind, or mighty Sydenham reign'd.

ARUNDEL

EXTEMPORE ON THE PATHETIC AND
BENEVOLENT STANZAS IN OUR

LAST VOLUME, P. 991.

WAS not Mr. Auftey the verses that penn'd,

'TWAS

'Twas fome angel that dipp'd his kind pea in the fpheres ;

It was godlike, at least, íuch a caufe to befriend,

And excite by his magic a fountain of

tears.

* See Sueton. in Claud. c. 25.

PER

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Select Poetry, ancient and modern, for January, 1786.

PERSIAN SON G.

By Sir WILLIAM JONES, Baronet.

WEET Maid, if thou wouldst charm my fight,

SWEET

And bid thefe arms thy neck enfold,

That rofy check, that lily hand,
Would give thy poet more delight,
Than all Becara's vaunted gold,

Than all the gems of Samarcand.
Boy, let yon liquid ruby* flow,
And bid thy penfive heart be glad.
Whate'er the frowning zealots fay,
Tell them their Eden cannot fhew
A ftream fo clear as Ronabad,

A bower fo fweet as Mofellay.
Oh! when these fair perfidious maids,
Whofe eyes our fecret haunts infeft,

Their dear deftructive charms display;
Each glance my tender breaft invades,
And robs my wounded foul of rest,
As Tartars feize their deftin'd
prey.
In vain with love our bofoms glow,
Can all our tears, can all our fighs,
New luftre to thofe charms impart ?
Can cheeks where living rofes blow,
Where Nature fpreads her richest dyes,

Require the borrow'd gloss of art!

Speak not of fate-ah!-change the theme, And talk of odours, talk of wine,

Talk of the flowers that round us bloom; 'Tis all a cloud, 'tis all a dream!

To love and joy thy thoughts confine, Nor hope to pierce the facred gloom. Beauty has fuch refiftless power,

That even the chafte Egyptian dame + Sigh'd for the blooming Hebrew boy; For her how fatal was the bour, When to the banks of Nilus came

A youth fo lovely and fo coy.

But ah! fweet maid, my counfel hear,
(Youth fhould attend when those advise

Whom long experience renders fage,)
While mufic charms the ravish'd ear,
While fparkling cups delight our eyes,
Be gay, and fcorn the frowns of age.
What cruel anfwer have I heard!
And yet, by Heaven, I love thee ftill:

Can aught be cruel from thy lip?
Yet fay, how fell that bitter word
From lips which ftreams of fweetnefs fill,
Which nought but drops of honey fip?
Go boldly forth, my fimple lay,

Whole a cents flow with artlefs eafe,

Like Orient pearls at random firung;
Thy notes are fweet, the damfels fay;
But, oh! tar fweeter, if they please

The nymph for whom thefe notes
fung.

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A parent's foft forrows, to mine led the way ; The leffon of pity was caught from her eye, And e'er I knew language, I fpoke with a figh.

The nightingale plunder'd the mate-widow'd Dove,

The warbled complaint of the fuffering grove;

To youth, as it ripen'd, gave sentiment new: The object ftill changing, the fympathy true. Soft embers of paffions yet reft in their glow; A warmth of more pain may this breaft never know!

Or if too indulgent the bleffing I claim, Let the fpark drop from reason, that wakens the fame.

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We fleep, alas! one long and endless night;
Come then, a thousand balmy kiffes give;
An hundred yet with transport I'll receive;
A thousand ftill, and now an hundred more,
Come add, my Lefbia, to th' increasing store ;
are. Then all in numberless confufion throw,
Left we ourselves our joys precifely knowi
Or, left fome jealous folks fell Envy move,
If eler they knew how much we Lovers
love.

A melied ruby is a common periphrafis for wine in Perfian poetry.

+ Z leikhs, Potiphar's wife. Joleph.

RUSTICUS.

FOREIGN

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

If public report is to be credited, the Imperial Court has accepted the laft propofitions from Conftantinople, for afcertaining the boundaries of the two Empires; it is added, that the Port agrees to furrender to the Em peror the diftrict in Bofnia, to which he has

erected a claim.

A Treaty of Commerce has actually been concluded between the Imperial Courts of Vienna and Petersburgh; the Articles of which, to the number of forty, have already been made public.

Another Treaty of the like import is faid to be concluded between Ruffia and Great Britain, and a third between Ruffia and France.

A fummary of the answers made by the King of Pruffia to the Emperor's declaration, relative to the exchange of Bavaria, has lately appeared,

The Court of Vienna infifts, "that Bavaria was always a Duchy, and not an Electorate; and that the Electoral dignity was not exsended to it until the year 1778" This, "fays the Court of Berlin, is contrary to hiftory; and that, from the earliest times, the Electoral dignity was attached both to the Palatinate and Bavaria, confequently the latter is under the controul of the Golden Bull."

The Emperor cannot conceive why the exchange of Bavaria fhould be contested, while there are fo many examples on record of exchanges of German territories formerly.

The King of Pruffia anfwers, "that any exchanges are poffible, when, by the request of the contracting parties, they have had leave fo to do. But where that is wanting, any exchange is impoffible."

The differences, relative to the limits of Poland and Pruffian Silefia, have been terminated by a Convention, figned by the Pruffian Refident and the Polith Commiffary.. Affairs in Holland begin to be very serious, and the public tranquillity to be threatened with difturbances. The Stadtholder having left the Hague upwards of three months, on account of the command of the garrison there being given to a French officer, is determined not to return till that officer is fuperfeded. The States of Holland, on the other band, are as determined not to fecede from their former refolution. The King of Pruffia threatens the people are divided; and, as the time draws near, when bufinefs of the fit confequence is to be agitated in their affemblies, which cannot be done without the Stadtholder, confufion muft inevitably follow.

The States of Holland and Weft Friefland, notwithstanding the remonstrance of the King of Pruffia and the Prince Stadtholder, on the 19th of December, ordered the mili tary honours, ufually paid to the officer commanding the Hague garrifon, to be paid to the Prefident of their Committee as their reprefentative. The fame was also ordered to the Grand Penfionary of Holland, fince

which there have certainly been matters of the laft importance in agitation at the Hague.

The Pruffian minifter from Berlin, and the British minifter at the Hague, had jointly, on this occafion, a conference with the Prefident of the States General, at which M. De Holte, the Hanoverian Envoy, was pre fent. This conference continued till midnight; after which, couriers were dispatched to London, to Paris, and to Berlin.

EAST INDIA INTELLIGENCE. The Swallow Packet, from Bengal, arrived in the Downs on the 9th inftant, on board of which Ld. Macartney came paffenger, who left Calcutta on the 19th of Auguft. His Lordthip was certainly acquainted with his appointment to the government of that prefidency fome days before the pacquet failed; but he declined that high employment, for reafons with which the public have not yet. been authentically acquainted. The following are copies of authentic papers brought by the Swallow Pacquet :

At a meeting of the British inhabitants of Calcutta, held at the theatre on Monday the 25th of July, in perfuance of a public fummons by the High Sheriff, at the request of the Grand Jury, on the 15th of June laft, for the purpote of taking into confideration the propriety and neceffity of a petition on certain parts of an Act of the 24th of his prefent Majefty, intituled, "An Act for the better regulation of the affairs of the E. I. C. and of the Britifh poffeffions in India; and for establishing a Court of Judicature, for the more speedy and effe&iual trial of persons accused of offences committed in the East Indies," the following Refolutions were proposed, and unanimously agreed to:

1. Refolved, That his Majesty's fubje&s in the East Indies are entitled to the protection and fupport of the laws of England in common with other fubjects of the realm.

II. Refolved, That fo much of the Act, as compels the ferv.nts of the E. I. C. upon their return to Great Britain, to deliver in, upon oath, an inventory of their whole property, under penalties of exceffive feverity, is grievous and oppreffive, and repugnant to the conftitution of our country.

III. Refolved, That the erection of a new tribunal, unrestrained by the fettled rules of law, and fubject to no appeal; and the depriving them of their undoubted birth-right, the trial by Jury, are violations of the Great Charter of our Liberties, and infringements of the most facred principles of the British Conftitution.

IV. Refolved, That the faid Act, by ex pofing of his Majesty's fubjects refiding under this Prefidency, to be fent forcibly into England, and there to be tried for offences committed, or charged to be committed by them within these provinces, is highly dangerous to the fecurity of their perfons and fortunes, V. Refolved,

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Interesting Intelligence from the Fast Indies.

V. Refolved, That it is injurious to the fervants of the United Company, to be fubfected by the faid A&t of Parliament, to be difmiffed from their employments in the East Indies, or to be recalled at the pleasure of the Crown.

VI. Refolved, That the provifion of the faid Act of Parliament, which enacts, That all writings tranfmitted from the East Indies to the Court of Directors, in the ufual course of their correfpondence, may be admitted in evidence, and thall not be deemed inadmiffible or incompetent, is fubverfive of the eftablished rules of evidence, and manifeftly dangerous to his Majefty's fubjects returning from this country to Great Britain.

VII. Refolved, That, for the purpose of obtaining a repeal of fuch caufes, petitions, humbly laying our grievances before his Majefty and the two Houfes of Parliament, are advifeable, neceffary, and proper.

VIII. Refolved, That a Committee of fifteen gentlemen, felected from the inhabitants of Calcutta, be appointed to prepare fuch petitions, for promoting and obtaining an effectual redress to his Majefty's fubje&s in India.

IX. Refolved, That a fubfcription be opened for defraying the neceffary expences.

X. Refolved, That Mr. Charles Purling be a member of the Committee; and that he be requested to propofe 14 other gentlemen to the meeting, for their approval.

XI. Refolved, That the following gentlemen are elected for the purposes mentioned in the foregoing Refolutions, viz.

Col. Patrick Duff,
Capt. John Murray,
Capt. Peter Murray,
Capt. William Scott,
Capt. Herbert Lloyd,
Charles Purling,
John Briftow,
Jeremiah Church,

Wm. Cowper,
Henry Vanfittart,
John Evelyn,
Jonathan Duncan,
George Dallas,
Tho. Henry Davis,
and

Ph. Yonge, Efqrs. XII. Refolved, That this Affembly of the British inhabitants of Calcutta, having the most perfect confidence and truft in the uprightness, integrity, and abilities of the Committee, do delegate to them full authority, and do pledge to them the fupport of the faid Affembly in the fullest manner poffible, to all measures they fhall legally adopt, for obtaining a repeal of the oppreffive parts of the aforefaid Act of Parliament.

XIII. Refolved, That the thanks of this Meeting be given to the Grand Jury, for having convened a legal and conftitutional meeting of the British fubjects in this fettlement, for the above purpose,

XIV. Refolved, That the thanks of this Meeting be given to Philip Yonge, Efq. the High Sheriff.

XV. Refolved, That the thanks of this Meeting be given to Charles Purling. Esq. XVI. Refolved, That the above Refolations be printed and made public.

RESOLUTIONS framed on the 13th, and agreed to on the 17th of March 1785, by the officers of the third brigade stationed Cawnpore.

The general voice of the gentlemen at this ftation, taking into confideration the moft proper mode of obtaining a repeal of the claufes of Mr. Pitt's India Bill, which, under the unjuft illiberal plea of delinquency on our parts, conftitutes the New Court of Judicature ;

The following heads are recommended to the perufal of the gentlemen at large; and, if approved of, their fignatures are requested. I. That, as Britons, we are entitled to the protection and fupport of the ancient and eftablished laws of England, in common with the other subjects of the realm.

II. That the inventory required from the fervants of the Hou. Eaft India Company and the New Court of Judicature, conftiruted by Mr. Pitt's Bill for the trial of delinquents, are contrary to the laws and customs of England, infomuch that it compels, under very fevere penalties, men born free, to give evidence against themselves, and deprives the fubject of the ineftimable bleffing and his birth-right, "Trial by his Peers."

III. That it is the duty of every subject, to fupport the laws, and by every legal and honeft endeavour to prevent innovations in the constitution.

IV. That we do moft folemnly believe the New Court of Judicature, constituted by Mr. Pitt's Bill, to be contrary to the conftitution.

Copy of the Sentence of Sir John Burgoyne's
Court-Martial:

G. O.

Head Quarters, Fort St. George, 12th July, 1785. By the Commander in Chief in India. The opinion and fentence of the General Court Martial affembled for the trial of Major General Sir John Burgoyne, Bart. having been laid before the Commander in Chief; he has, by virtue of special powers from his Majefty, been pleafed to approve of the names, and to direct that the faid fentence be published in General Orders.

Sentence of the Court Martial.

"The Court, having thus maturely confidered of the evidence and records in fupport of the profecution, and likewife the defence, and thofe in fupport of it, is of opinion that the prifoner, Sir John Burgoyne, Bart. is not guilty of the charges alledged against him, and doth therefore moft fully and honourable acquit him of all and every part of the fame.

"Signed,

JOHN DALLING, Lieut. Gen, and Prefident."

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