Poetical ESSAYS in MARCH, 1757. All hours he watches, all dreffes he wears, your heart; For love, tho' a child, as Anacreon has fung, With ease can outwit both the the old and the young. Mifs COURTNEY to Mifs ANNE CONOLLY, May 1753. HO' kind your words-how full of forrow! TH "Adieu! dear Bell-we part to-morrow.” A muse in tears moves flow and dull, But hang digreffions-to return ; 143 Then will you grow the topic common, Thus my prophetic foul foreknows A PICTURE of COURTSHIP. Each is heighten'd by the other; Tell me fair ones how is this? How shou'd pain be pleasure's brother? Wife œconomists! explain, Female arbiters! decide it, Tell me what you think of pain, Say it ftill improves its measure, And your paffions wifely guiding ; You, în pity to our blindnefs, Wifely mean by giving pain To enhance your future kindness. Charm us ever as ye pleafe, Hating fmile, and frown when willing ; All the pain one fair can give Pain with me is pleasure's brother. To Mifs PR-CE, upon flicking a Pincashion in a Variety of curious Figures. HAT glitt'ring toy, that file of pins, TH In hands of beauty prove, The quiver of the winged god, The fatal fhafts of love. Think then, while on that filken plain You fix a thousand darts, What pain, what anguish you must give, In thus transfixing hearts, Effex. FLORIO 144 Poetical ESSAYS in MARCH, 1757. Wrote in a blank Leaf of a Telemachus. AvIs a CALYPSO. U Attempted in English. ADVICE to CALYPSO, As his paffion he breath'd in the grove : "As the bird to his neft ftill returns for re pofe, [flows, As back to its fountain the conftant ftream So true and unchang'd is my love. If e'er this heart roves, and revolts from its May Ceres in rage quit the vallies and plains," In vain wou'd young Phillis or Laura be kind, tale, [frail, ABSENCE. Infcribed to Mifs Wisz of In the fhape of Alexis young Cupid drew nigh, WHI Oakingham. HILE ev'ry breast with joy beats high, While trees with new-born honours crown'd, Invite the birds to fing: Deep laden with a weight of woe, Nor charm, nor power has the year Or ftill the rifing groan. The waving woods, the verdant hills, In vain the pretty warblers fing, No more in careless eafe I rove With blith companions gay; With fancy's eye enraptur'd trace And forms that killing air. Drive headlong to the main; A$ SONG. T. HORNE. $ Daphnis reclin'd by her fide he lik'd bett, [prest, With a figh her foft hand to his bofom he Of thepherd's the envy and pride; truth [youth, She yielded her hand and her heart to the Leave forrow and care to the wind; PELrofe, THE Monthly Chronologer. T SATURDAY, Feb. 26. GEORGE R. "His majefty, agreeably to his royal word, for the fake of justice, and of example to the difcipline of the navy, and for the fafety and honour of the nation, was determined to have let the law take its course, with relation to admiral Byng, as upon Monday next; and refifted all follicitations to the contrary. But being informed, that a member of the house of commons, who was a member of the court-martial, which tried the faid admiral, has, in his place, applied to the house, in behalf of himself, and feveral other members of the faid court, praying the aid of parliament to be releafed from the oath of fecrecy imposed on courts-martial, in order to difclofe the grounds whereon fentence of death paffed on the faid admiral, the refult of which discovery may fhew the fentence to be improper; his majefty has thought fit to refpite the execution of the fame, in order that there may be an opportunity of knowing, by the feparate examination of the members of the faid court, upon oath, what grounds there is for the above fuggestion. His majefty is determined ftill to let this fentence be carried into execution, unlefs it fhall appear, from the faid examination, that admiral Byng was unjustly condemned. G. R." Agreeably to which meffage Mr. Byng had a refpite, and a motion was made in the houfe for a bill to indemnify the members of the faid court-martial from the penalty of their oath of fecrecy ; which bill was accordingly prepared, and paffed the houfe by a great majority, and was carried up to the lords for their con Bank notes, value 300l. and William Harris and Thomas Marfh, for a street robbery, received fentence of death: Two to be tranfported for 14 years, 24 for feven years; and three to be branded. WEDNESDAY, March 2. At a numerous meeting of the fociety for the encouragement of arts, manufactures, and commerce, the following noblemen and gentlemen were elected officers for the year enfuing, viz. The Right Hon. lord vifc. Folkestone, prefident; the Right Hon. lord Romney, Dr. Hales, Charles Whitworth and James Theobald, Efqrs. vice-prefidents; John Goodchild, Efq; treafurer; Mr. William Shipley, register; and Mr. George Box, fecretary. The Right Hon. the houfe of lords, after examining every member of the court-martial upon oath, unanimously rejected the bill relating to admiral Byng, and ordered their proceedings upon it to be printed and published. Only three members of the court-martial, rear-admiral Harry Norris, the Hon. capt. Keppel, and capt. Moore, defired the bill thould pafs, the latter of which gentlemen, by reafon that the oath had often given him great disturbance; but he did not mean upon the trial of Mr. Byng. Capt. Geary did not defire it on his own account, but had no objection if it would be of advantage to any perfon. FRIDAY, II. Commodore Stevens, with a fquadron of fhips for the Eat-Indies, with the company's fhips under his convoy, failed from Spithead to the wettward; as did admiral Coates with the Weft-India fleet. The royal affent was given, by commiffion, to an act to prohibit, for a limited time, the making of low wines and fpirits, from wheat, barley, malt, or any other fort of grain, or from any meal or flour: An act for the regulation of his majefty's marine forces, while on fhore; to two road bills, and to two private bills. SUNDAY, 13. A houfe in Marfham-ftreet, Westminfter, was confumed by fire. MONDAY, 14. Orders being given for all the men of war at Spithead, to fend their boats on Monday morning with the captains and T all 146 ADMIRAL BYNG EXECUTED. all the officers of each fhip, accompanied by a party of marines under arms, to attend the execution of Mr. Byng, they, in purfuance of that order, rowed from Spithead, and made the harbour a little after eleven o'clock with the utmost difficulty and danger, it blowing a prodigious hard gale, the wind at W. N. W. and ebbing water. It was ftill more difficult to get up fo high as the Monarque lay, on board which ship the admiral suffered. Notwithstanding it blew fo hard, and the fea ran very high, there was a prodigious number of other boats round the hips on the outside of the men of war's boats, which laft kept off all others. Not a foul was fuffered to be on board the Monarque, except thofe belonging to the fhip. But thofe fhips that lay any way near her, were greatly crowded with fpectators, all their throuds and tops being full, altho` it was then difficult to fee any thing on board the Monarque. Mr. Byng, accompanied by a clergyman, who attended him during his confinement, and two gentlemen, his relations, walked out of the great cabin to the quarter-deck, where he fuffered on the larboard-fide, a few minutes before twelve o'clock. He was dreffed in a light-grey coat, white waistcoat, and white ftockings, and a large white wig, and had in each hand a white handkerchief. threw his hat on the deck, kneeled on a cufhion, tied one handkerchief over his eyes, and dropped the other as a fignal, on which a volley from fix marines was fired, five of whofe bullets went thro' him, and he was in an inftant no more. He He infifted on not having any thing before his face, till he was greatly preffed to it, and told, that it would not be decent to have his face uncovered, and that the marines might otherwise be intimidated from taking proper aim. From his coming out of the cabin could not be two minutes, till he fell motionlefs on his left fide. He died with great refolution and compofure, not fhewing the leaft fign of timidity. The moment the mufkets went off, there was a blue pennant thrown out at the foretopmaft-head, which continued flying about five minutes, and was then ftruck, on which all the men of war's boots went off to repair on board their respective fhips. The Ramillies, the fhip the admiral had in the Mediterranean, was riding at her moorings in the harbour, and about half an hour before he suffered, the broke her mooring chain, and only held by her March bridle; which is looked on as a wonderful incident by people who do not confider the high wind at that time. Copy of a PAPER delivered by the Hon. Ad- Thefe are my thoughts on this occafion. I give them to you, that you may authenticate them, and prevent any thing fpurious being published, that might tend to defame me. I have giver a copy to one of my relations. AFEW moments will now deliver me from the virulent perfecution, and frustrate the farther malice of my enemics. Nor need I envy them a life fubject, to the fenfations my injuries, and the injuftice done me, muft create. Perfwaded I am juftice will be done to my reputation hereafter. The manner and caufe of raifing and keeping up the popular clamour and prejudice against me, will be feen thro'. I fhall be confidered (as I now perceive myself) a victim deftined to divert the indignation and refentment of an injured and deluded people from the proper objects. My enemies themselves muit now think me innocent. Happy for me, at this laft momy ment, that I know my own innocence, and am confcious that no part of my country's misfortunes can be owing to me. I heartily with the hedding my blood may contribute to the happiness and fervice of my country; but cannot refign my just claim to a faithful difcharge of my duty according to the beft of my judgment, and the utmoft exertion of my ability for his majefty's honour, and my country's fervice. I am forry that my endeavours were not attended with more fuccefs, and that the armament under my command proved too weak to succeed in an expedition of fuch moment. Truth has prevailed over calumny and falihood, and juftice has wiped off the ignominious ftain of my fuppofed want of perfonal courage or difaffection. My heart acquits me of thefe crimes. But who can be prefumptuously fure of his own judgment? If my crime is an error in judgment, or differing in opinion from my judges; and if yet, the error in judg ment fhould be on their fide, God forgive them, as I do; and may the diftrefs of their minds, and uneafinefs of their confciences, which in justice to me shey have repre 1757. The MONTHLY CHRONOLOGER. The fupreme Judge fees all hearts and motives; and to him I muit fubmit the justice of my caufe. J. BYNG. On board his majesty's fhip Monarque, in Portsmouth harbour, March 14, 1757. Two houfes were confumed by fire in Beaufort-buildings. TUESDAY, 15. A high wind at weft and north-west, did great damage in and about London, particularly at Richmond, Ham, and Twickenham. At Cambridge many large trees were blown down, or tore up by the roots, and numbers of chimneys; and feveral barns, tacks of corn, hayricks, &c. were levelled with the ground. Two people were killed near Bedford, one by the blowing over of a cart, and the other by the fall of a barn as he was threshing. At Liverpool fix outwardbound foreigners were put afhore from the rocks, and as many oppofite to the town, one veffel run thro' the middle of another, and feveral keel upwards; chimneys down in almost every street of the town, large buildings deftroyed, numbers of people drowned, and many fadly hurt. Near twenty feet of St. Thomas's fteeple was blown into the church. At Worcester, whilft Mr. juftice Wilmot was fitting in the Nifi Prius court, a stack of chimneys of the town-hall was blown down, which made its way thro' the cieling into the court, and killed feven perfons, amongit whom were Mr. Laws, ciyer to Mr. juftice Wilmot, and Mr. Chambers, plaintiff in the caufe trying before the court: Several other perfons were flightly hurt, amongst whom were counsellors Morton, Afton, and Afhurft. At Chefter feveral houses, and about 100 chimneys, were blown down, all the windmills round the country, and above 100 large trees. At Namptwich, the church is fadly fhattered, and the houses were mostly ftripped. At Acton, about a mile from Namptwich, the top of the church steeple was blown down, with the bells, the fall of which beat in the roof of the church, and demolished most of the pews. MONDAY, 21. The boy coming with the Norwich mail from Epping, was stopt by the high stone, near Layton-ftone, about four in the morning, by a fingle highwayman, who took the mail and rode off with full fpeed towards Epping. The portmanteau was found, the bags (which were the Norwich, Swaffham, Attleborough, Windham, Thetford, Lynn, Stoke, Bury St. Ed 147 munds, Newmarket, Saffron Walden, Cambridge, Bishop-Stortford, Sawbridgeworth, Downham, Epping, Ongar, and Ely) being taken out near Walthamstow, by a farmer, and brought to the Poftoffice, in Lombard-ftreet, about noon. WEDNESDAY, 23. Great damage was done by the high wind both by land and water. THURSDAY, 24. At the anniversary fermon and feaft of the governors of the London Hofpital, the collection amounted to 2040l. 15s. 6d. FRIDAY, 25. By proclamation, any merchant fhip or privateer, may be navigated by foreign feamen, provided their number shall not excced three-fourths of the fhip's crew. TUESDAY, 29. The duke of Devonshire, the earls of Northumberland, Hertford, and Carlisle, were inftalled knights of the most noble order of the garter at Windfor. His majefty hath been pleased to order, that the bounties of three pounds for every able feaman, and of thirty fhillings for every ordinary feaman, be continued to the twelfth day of April next. (See p. 97.) Extract of a Letter from Mr. Tatem, the British Conful at Meffina, dated Jan. 19, 1757. "The King George, capt. Fortunatus Wright, has lately had two fmart engagements in the channel of Malta, of three hours each (one in the night, the other by day) with the Hirondelle, a French Polacco of 26 guns, and 283 men; but notwithstanding the great inequality in men, guns, and weight of metal, yet capt. Wright obliged him to fheer off, and they both put into Malta the fecond of January to refit; but poor Wright has met with worfe treatment there than he did before; for altho' he had several fhot under water, which made it abfolutely neceffary to heave down, yet, by the intereft of the French faction, he was denied that liberty; and afterwards, upon account of two flaves having taken refuge on board him, he has been fequeftered in port, and cut off from all daily provifions, and even water, till he restores them; but as the Jerfey was hourly expected in Malta, we hope Sir William Burnaby will obtain his release. The Hirondelle is one of the veffels fitted out from Toulon, exprefsly to feek him." (See the vol. 1756, p. 612.) The lofty and beautiful fteeple belonging to St. Francis's abbey, in the city of Cahel, in Ireland, in the dead of the T 2 night. |