94 Poetical ESSAYS in FEBRUARY, 1757. But France's perjur'd foe, and England's friend, Now, all thy virtues all thy glories end : FOR OUR COUNTRY, an ODE, to the Tune of, When Britain first at Heaven's Command. S Liberty, from out the sky, Late have we feen thy faithless hand prepare AS To light the torch of difcord and of war; But, ere thou brave thy fate, fond madman grave; The fword is fharpen'd, and the arrow fped, The Gifter-arts, incens'd, no longer now, Shall twine fresh wreaths for thy victorious brow, No longer now we view the fage approv'd, ONE TURN MORE. (See T'OTHER Then here let all diffentions end, I'm fatisfy'd if you are. The cloud is paft, the welkin fair, The ingenious gentleman, author of a Word to an Author, the Conciliation, and many other pieces that do bonour to our Magazine, would be glad to know bow to address Philomufe; which we do not think ourselves at liberty to inform bim in, without Philomufe's confent. Held o'er our ifle her fcepter'd hand, In ancient times your fires renown'd, No fopp'ries then were ap'd from France; And heav'n fhall your endeavours bless: Hence victorious reign, and wife, And Antigallicans arise. Ye facred few! who boaft the name, Whose bosoms burn with patriot fire, Hail friends of freedom! dear to fame, And grac'd with all that gods admire ! You're tranfcendent, great, and wife, Who Antigallicans arise. 'Tis yours to bid fair Science smile, To welcome Commerce to our shore ; Teach Arts to flourish round the isle, And Britain to itself restore : You're tranfcendent, great, and wife, Who Antigallicans arise. Again fhou'd curft rebellion glow, Or bold invafion spread its wing, And when this globe shall melt away, My Damon wou'd languishing say: "Old Time fure has borrow'd the wings of [rove a dove, "As from one thing to t'other we wantonly "Each month feems, alas! but a day. Like a froft came poffeffion! and nipt in its prime Ev'ry hope of a bud-lavish springAgain he arraigns poor old innocent Time; And what think you now is the capital crime? Why, because he is not on the wing. All nature was riff'd to lay at my feet, Yet all was too fhort of compare; Pinks, rofes and lillies no longer were fweet, No longer the fnow was a fimile meet For a bofom fo foft and fo fair! With We bad not inferted this fcandalous, mean, and falfe invective of Voltaire, againft bis old patron; but to fhew that refentment may be indulged fo far, even by a jen of science, as to stifle all the generous motions of bumanity and juftice. Poetical ESSAYS in FEBRUARY, 1757. With earth not content, my fond Damon wou'd fly Ev'n to heav'n, nor deem'd it too far: IfI blush'd,'twas the blush of a fun-fetting sky, And then, to be fure, if I fparkl'd my eye, 'Twas the luftre at least of a star! He. When, dazzl'd with beauty, your greatest of charms, The charms of your mind, were conceal'd; I dreamt of no rapture but that in your arms, A face only then gave my paffion alarms, 'Twas all that my Daphne reveal'd. On worth more exalted, on thoughts more refin'd, Your Damon is ever employ'd; [mind? Frail beauty! what are you compar'd to the There fancy for ever fresh matter can find, [fwear, Still charming as still more enjoy'd. Let fops then, who buzz but in beauty's false glare, [fellows; Toast your charms o'er a glafs with their While your mind still affords me fuch delicate fare, With pleasure I'll hear all they fay and they For truft me I'll never be jealous. She. Ah Damon! yet keep up a little love's fire, Tho' raptures perhaps are no more; The world fhall my wit and my prudence admire, [defire, The world all the day ftill my mind fhall So you love but my face as before. A WHIM. JENNY, bright as the day, and as bux as May, [fay, I happen'd to kifs-when the angry did Dear Jenny I need no apology ufe, Cry'd fhe-" Very fine! very pretty indeed!" obtain, fu'd [faid, What follow'd, young lovers, must never be 95 Come ladies, ye that would appear } Palmers all our faders were, I a Palmer livyd here, And trauyld ftill, till worn wyth age, In the cherful month of May; On a Gravestone in the Ruins of an old Church T IME was I ftood where thou dont And view'd the dead as thou doft me; THE THE Monthly Chronologer. SHERIFFS appointed by his MAJESTY in Council for the Year 1757. B ERKS, William Reynolds, Efq;-Bedf. John Capon, Efq;-Bucks, Richard Lane, Efq;-Cumb. Edw. Stephenson, Efq;Chefh. William Robinfon, Efq; Camb. and Hunt. Thomas Dixon, Efq;-Cornw. John Luke, Efq; -Devon. John Quick, Efq; Dorfet. John Gannett, jun. Efq; Derb. Thomas Rivett, Efq; Effex, Humphry Bellamy, Efq;-Glouc. Reginald Pindar Lygon, Efq;-Hertf. Jacob Houblon, Efq; Heref. Robert Minors Gouge, Efq;-Kent, William Glanville Evelyn, Efq; Leiceft. Joshua Grundy, Efq; Linc. Bennet Langton, Efq; - Monm. John Lewis, Efq;-Northumb. Sir Edward Blacket, Bart. Northampt. John Creed, Efq;-Norf. Ifaac Long, Efq;Notting. John Hall, Efq;-Oxfordfh. Sir Francis Knollys, Bart. Rutl. John Digby, Efq;-Shrop. Saint John Charlton, Efq; Som. John Collins, Efq;-Staff. Walter Acton Mofcley, Efq;-Suff. Hen. Moore, Efq;-Southampt. John Chute, Efq; Surry, Jofeph Mawbey, Efq; — Suffex, James Ward, Efq;-Warwicksh. Edward Jordan, Efq; - Worc. Thomas Burch Savage, Efq; · Wilts, William Coles, Efq;-Yorkth. Henry Willoughby, Efq;-For South Wales: Brecon, Lewis Pryfe, Efq;-Carm. Griffith Jones, Efq; -Card. John Griffiths, Efq; Glam. Thomas Lewis, Efq;-Pemb. John Allen, Efq;-Radnor, John Evans, Efq;For North Wales: Anglefea, John Rowlands, Efq;-Carn. Robert Wynne, Efq; -Denb. John Lloyd, Efq;-Flint, Robert Parry, Efq; Merion. Peter Price, Efq;-Montgom. Jenkin Parry, Efq; - - A particular and true Account of the unfortunate Capt. WILLIAM DEATH, of the Terrible Privateer, which had 26 Carriage Guns, and 200 Men. On the 23d of December the engaged the Grand Alexander, from St. Domingo, bound to Nantz, a fhip of 400 tons, 22 guns, and 100 men, and, after a smart fight of two hours and a half, in which capt. Death's brother, and 16 of his men, were killed, he took her, and put 40 hands on board. On Dec. 28, in convoying his prize (which was very valuable) to England, the Vengeance privateer, of St. Maloes, 36 guns, and 360 men, bore down upon her, and retook the prize; then the Vengeance and the prize both attacked the Terrible, the being between them, and hot away her main-mast the firft broadfide; and after the most defperate and bloody engagement ever known, (for one hour and a half, in which Monf. Bourdas, the French captain, his fecond, and two thirds of his crew; capt. Death, almost all his officers, and the major part of his crew, were all killed, to the amount of near 400 on both fides) the Terrible was taken and carried to St. Maloes in a fhattered, frightful, and bloody condition, having no more than 26 of the crew left alive on board, 16 of whom had loft legs or arms, and the other 10 were mostly wounded. [A fubfcription is fet on foot for the fupport of the widow of this gallant officer, and of the furviving feamen of his crew, now prifoners in France.] By a late court-martial at Plymouth, the captain of the Sheerness was unanimoufly acquitted of avoiding coming to action thro' negligence, difaffection, or cowardice, the court being unanimously of opinion, that he fell under no part of the 10th, 12th, or 13th articles of war; and were likewife unanimously of opinion, that he was prevented from coming to action by the general opinion of his officers, conceiving the enemy a fhip greatly fuperior to the Sheernefs, and laying too much ftrefs upon his orders in carrying his intelligence to admiral Knowles, by which means he had fallen under the 36th article, and for that reafon fhould be reprimanded by the prefident. Notwithtanding his acquittal, the captain appeared much diffatisfied with this reprimand, and feemed confcious of having done his best. Lord Colvil was prefident, and the captains Hanway, Collins, Biron, Routh, and feven or eight more captains, compofed the court. TUESDAY, Jan. 24. A dreadful fire happened at MortonHampstead, in Devonshire, which spread fo faft (most of the houses being thatched) that the inhabitants were terribly alarmed with 1757. The MONTHLY CHRONOLOGER. with the apprehenfion of the whole town being deftroyed: But by the unwearied endeavours of the people in covering their houfes with hides and other things, to prevent the flames catching the thatch, the fire was providentially extinguished, without more than fix houses being entirely confumed. SUNDAY, 30. About one o'clock, a fire broke out at Mrs. Binfield's, milliner, near RacquetCourt in Fleet-Street, and burnt about an hour and an half, with great violence. Mrs. Binfield's houfe was entirely confumed, and an oilman's, Mr. Adams's, a mathematical inftrument maker, and Mr. Rutter's houfe backwards, were much damaged. A porter, belonging to the Union Fire-office, brought down 30 lb. of gunpowder, out of the garret belonging to the oil-fhop, while it was on fire. By a proclamation, his majesty was pleafed to prolong and extend, from the Toth inftant to the roth of next month inclufive, the bounties to feamen and landmen that shall enter themselves on board the royal navy, and likewife the pardon to fuch feamen as have deferted, and shall return into the fervice. (See p. 41.) THURSDAY, 10. At a court of common council, a fcheme for the better prefervation of the fishery of the river Thames was taken into confideration, and the court unanimoufly agreed, that a petition should be prefented to parliament for a bill for that purpose. A petition from the company of fcriveners was taken into confideration, praying the city to enable them to carry on the law-fuit depending between the faid company and the attorneys exercifing the art and mystery of fcriveners within this city; when the court ordered the fum of 200l. to the company, to enable them, for the prefent to carry on the faid profecution February, 1757. FRIDAY, II. 97 Being the day appointed for a general faft, it was obferved with the greatest fhew of devotion in all parts of this city and fuburbs, and the places of publick worship were remarkably full. TUESDAY, 15. peers, His majefty went to the house of and gave the royal affent to the bill for granting to his majefty a fun of money to be raised by way of lottery. To the bill for punishing mutiny and defertion, and for the better payment of the army and their quarters. To the bill for the more fpeedy and effectual recruiting his majefty's land forces and marines while on fhore. To the bill to prohibit for a time limited the exportation of corn to the plantations. And to feveral other publick and private bills. THURSDAY, 17. The following meflage was delivered by the king to Mr. fecretary Pitt, to be by him prefented to the houfe of commons, GEORGE R. "It is always with reluctance that his majefty alks any extraordinary fupply of his people; but as the united councils and formidable preparations of France, and her allies threaten, with the most alarming confequences, Europe in general; and as thefe moft unjust and vindictive defigns are particularly and immediately bent against his majesty's electoral dominions and thofe of his good ally the king of Pruffia, his majefty confides in the experienced zeal and affection of his faithful commons, that they will chearfully affift him in forming and maintaining an army of obfervation for the juft and neceffary defence and prefervation thereof, and enable his majefty to fulfil his engagements with the king of Pruffia, for the fecurity of the empire, against the irruption of foreign armies, and for the fupport of the common caufe." Four independent companies of invalids are to be directly raised in Ireland. The clerks in the offices of the fecretaries of state, and of the admiralty, are, by his majesty's command, making copies or extracts of all intelligence received, from January 1, 1755, to August 1, 1756, concerning the equipment of a fleet at Toulon, or any other port, and of the march of troops to the fea coafts of France, and of the defigns of the French on Minorca. The clerks of the admiralty have also been ordered to prepare lifts of all the fhips of war that were ready for fea, with copies of the failing orders fent to their commanders, from August 1, 1755, to April 30, 1756; and likewife a state and N condition 98 The MONTHLY CHRONOLOGER. condition of all the king's fhips in the feveral ports of Great-Britain, when adm. Byng failed, and the number of men muftered on board them; copies of all inftructions given to adm. Byng, and of the letters received from him; an account of the difpofition of his majefty's fhips, from October 1, 1755, to April 6, 1756; an account of the number of men that were taken from other fhips to make up the complement of adm. Byng's fhips. Orders have likewife been fent to the waroffice and the board of ordnance, to prepare copies of all orders given, from Auguit 30, 1755, to April 30, 1756, to any officers belonging to the regiments at Minorca, to repair to that ifland; and an account of the number of effective men, and of the quantity of provifions, and military ftores, in fort St. Philip, on April 8, 1756. The lords of the admiralty have ordered feveral gentlemen, to take an exact furvey of Dover harbour, in order to make it commodious for the reception of fmall fhips of war, to clean in and refit, for cruizing in the narrow feas betwixt France and England: They are likewife ordered to confider and make report to their lordfhips, what mould or harbour can be made for large shipping at Deal. A furvey and plan of an artificial harbour near Deal town beach was projected by an officer of the board of ordnance, at the requeft of the late duke of Montagu, about nine years ago; which was approved of by the Deal pilots and matters of the Trinity-houfe, London; as promifing greater advantage to Great-Britain, than Dunkirk ever was, or can be of, to France. Cambridge, Jan. 21. The hon. Mr. Finch and the hon. Mr. Townshend having propofed, to give two prizes, of 15 guineas each, to two fenior batchelors of arts, and the like to two middle batchelors, who fhall compofe the best exercifes in Latin profe, which are to be read publickly by them on a day hereafter to be appointed. The vice-chancellor has given notice, that the fubjects for this year are, for the fenior batchelors, Utrum liceat civi bono republica in partes divifa, neutri le adjungere; for the middle batchelors, Utrum in hiftorias legentibus emendentur magis, an corrumpantur mores. Oxford, Feb. 12. Lait Thursday mornirg, a moft dreadful fire happened at the feat of Robert Needham, of Howberry, fq; which almost deftroyed the whole houfe, and all the furniture of value. At Lamborne, in Berks, on the 24th f January, they had a prodigious flood, Feb. occafioned by the fudden thaw and melting of the fnow on the neighbouring hills, which came down in fuch a torrent, that the inhabitants of feveral houfes (that ftood most expofed, and which were afterwards washed down) with difficulty faved their lives: A malt-house was borne down, and three floors of malt entirely washed away: A carpenter had feven loads of timber, among which was one piece 55 feet long, carried by the current fome hundred yards from the place where it lay: Mr. Hippefley's park pales were laid level with the ground, and other confiderable damage done in the town and neighbourhood. There lately happened the most remarkable flood known in the memory of man at Imber, in Wiltshire, occafioned by the melting of the fnow, which entirely threw down two cottage-houfes. The gentlemen of Sunderland have raifed a fund, by a voluntary fubfcription, for the relief of the wives, widows, children and indigent parents of fuch feamen, belonging to that port, as have entered or been impreffed into his majesty's fervice fince the commencement of the present war; whereby upwards of 350 families are comfortably fubfifted, and will continue to be fo, for five or fix months, whilft the husbands, fathers or fons are bravely fighting, or have died, in defence of their king and country. On the 15th of January, at Loftwithiel, a beautiful Cornish town, the top of the fteeple was ftruck to the ground, the church windows fhattered to pieces, the pews greatly damaged, and the organ entirely spoiled. Various are the opinions as to the caufe, fome attributing it to the fhock of an earthquake, and others to lightning, as very large flashes fucceeded each other inftantaneously the night this misfortune happened. No part of the town befides received the leaft damage. The Antigallican privateer has taken a fecond French Eaft-India fhip, of 1000 tons burthen, and carried her into Cadiz. Edinburgh, Feb. 3. On the 18th ult. they had at Sanquhar a terrible storm of hail, accompanied with thunder and lightning. The lightning broke upon a large barn, a little way from the town, which it destroyed in an extraordinary manner, the walls being rent from top to bottom, the foundation ftones of one of them tore out of the ground, and the whole contents reduced to afhes. On the 13th of January, a fpermaceti whale was caft afhore on the fands of Belhelvie, about fix miles from Aberdeen.' |