When awful Jove's tremendous thunders roar, Till then forbear to cenfure things which lie An emmet crowns your boaft, and you can add AH YM N. AIL facred love! before all time H^ Blaz'd forth thy beauteous flame, Coæval from eternity Thou art with God the fame.. Call'd by the voice divine, earth fhone In its firft luftre bright; Love fill'd with specks of gold the fkies, And fun with beaming light: By love unbounded all this frame Ten thoufand pleafures yields; In concord fweet th' harmonious choirs Ad AMICUM. ·MICE, felix! cui metus abftulit A Nunquam faporem; liber at ommibus Curis potitur ter beata Sorte, fupervacuos timores Difflare ventis in mate barbarum Penis tyrannorum feroces Qua ftimulatque agitatque menter, " OVE, thy foft conq'ring fires inflame Thy gentle, all-attracting pow'r What raptures feize the ravifh'd foul- 1 An O D E. (See p. 141.). Tam Veneri quam Marti. UPID too long engrofs'd my lyre And gentle lays confefs'd my fire; Whilft the foft muse of love, Warbling in tender-pleafing ftrains, Has fung my woes, and figh'd my paine, Cold Delia's heart to move. But hence, be gone, fond love, away, Who now begin to own thy pow'r, She founds to arms, to arms. Their courage to difplay ; Coz Contefted feas they foon fhall mourn, The wolves and meaner beafts of prey, For fee, at George's dread command, But ah! my mufe in vain essays The Fatal REQUEST. D. H. WHER you go, THERE'ER you may be, or on Ida [flow, Or where thy fam'd fountains, Bathonia, Who feem for each other by nature defign'd, So eafy, good-humour'd, obliging, and kind; Oh pardon this rapture!-th' intent is fincere, And let me, where all things are pleasant, appear. The grafs joys below you, above you the sky, The feather'd folk, charm'd with your voices, draw nigh; While Zephyrs, cool-breathing, return the foft found, [round. And health, peace, and plenty fit fmiling aSuch fcenes without envy what eye can furvey? The moments on pinions of gold poft away. Such days of warm fun-fhine our parents pof fefs'd [grefo'd. In_Eden's green gardens, before they_trans~ Applies to his patients a pair of horse-leecher. Bawl'd out in a rage, will you never drop off? fun, Soon alter'd his tone, and bad 'em fuck on. The failors were patients (Lord help every But who was the doctor, declare if you can. Pow'r, every man's with, rifes mainly from riches: [from breeches? Then what matters wisdom from brain, or THE • Mifi Tg. THE Monthly Chronologer. A Ta General Meeting of the Governors and Guardians of the Hospital for expos'd and deferted young Children, on Feb. 28. the following were elected new Governors and Guardians, viz. Earl of Rocking bam, Lord Maynard, Sir Jacob Bouverie, Bart. Sir Tho. Drury, Bart. Sir Wm. Heathcote, Bart. Sir Wm. Jolliffe, Knt. Sir Tbs. Lowther, Bart. Sir Harry Lyddall, Bart. John Barber, Efq; Ald. John Blatchford, Barth. Clarke, Charles Eyres, Nich. Fazakerly, Efqrs. Mr. John Fell the Younger, Rowland Fry, Efq; Cha. Gore, Efq; George Heathcote, Efq; Ald. Mr. Ralph Kmx, Wm. Nicholas, Sam. Sandys, Joshua Smith, Jo. Townsend, Sigifmond Trafford, Hitch Young, Elgri. SATURDAY, March 1. The Seffions ended at the Old Bailey, when the following Perfons received Sentence af Death, vix. Elizabeth Hales, Elix. Jarvis, and Frances Humphreys, for robbing Cha. DickenfonJohn Sawney, for a Street-Robbery.Elizabeth Whitney, alias Dibray, and Mary Nab, alias Goulding, for robbing Ges. Stacey of 341. 135.-Samuel Hill, for Burglary and Felony. Twenty-two were ordered for Transportation, two burnt in the Hand, and two ordered to be whipp'd. THURSDAY, 6. His Majefty fent a Meffage to the House of Lords, and also another to the Commons, to acquaint them with the intended Marriage of the Princess Mary, his Majefty's fourth Daughter, to Prince Frederick of Heffe, Son of Prince William, Landgrave of Helje, Brother to the King of Sweden, walk,) where he was fhot by three Files of Mufqueteers; after which his dead Body, with the Wounds, were expos'd to the Detachment, which marched by in Sight of it. THURSDAY, 13. This Evening Captain Rentone arrived here Exprefs, with Letters from Vice-Admiral Vernon, dated on board his Majefty's Ship the Burford in Porto Belle Harbour, the 12th of Dec. laft, to his Grace the Duke of Newcafile, his Majefty's Principal Secretary of State; which give the following Account. On the 5th of Nov. laft, Vice-Admiral Vernon failed from Jamaica, with his Ma jefty's Ships the Burford, Hampton-Court, Princess Louifa, Worcester, Strafford, Norwich, and Sheerness, the last of which he or dered to cruize off Carthagena, On the oth in the Evening he came in Sight of Porto Bello, having been delayed in his Paffage by contrary Winds. There being but little Wind that Evening, tho' a very great Swell, ho anchored for that Night fix Leagues off the Shore, being apprehenfive of driving to the Eastward of the Harbour. On the aft in the Morning, the Admiral ply'd to Windward in Line of Battle, having -given the proper Orders for the Attack; but the Wind proving Eafterly, he was obliged to confine his Attack to the Iron-Fort only; clofe to which the Squadron was piloted by Captain Rentone, Commodore Brown, in the Hampton-Court who led the Attack, executed his Part as be came an Officer of Experience and Refolution; and being well followed by Capt. Herbert in the Norwich, and Capt. Mayne in the Wor cefter, the Admiral perceived that fome of the Spaniards fled from several Parts of the Fort; upon which he made the Signal for the Boats in which the Soldiers were, to make the best of their way in order to their Landing, whilft he was coming up to the Fort to batter it. The Admiral luffing up as near to the Fort as he could, the Fire of his fmall Arms-commanded the Enemies lower Batteries, and had a good Effect in driving them from those Batteries, from which they could do moft Harm and by this Means the Men were also secured at Landing: And this (as the Enemy afterwards confefs'd) was the principal Occation of their deferting the lower Batteries, the Smallfhot from the former Ships not having reach'd them, tho' their Cannon had beat down fome of the upper Part of the Fort. As the Boate came near the Admiral's Ship, he call'd to them to go directly on Shore under the Walls U 2 of of the Fort, tho' there was no Breach made; but this anfwered as was expected, by throwing the Enemy into a general Confternation, the Officers and Men who had food to the Jower Battery, flying to the upper Part of the Fort, where they held up a White Signal for Capitulating. The Admiral anfwered with a White Flag, but it was fome Time before he could ftop his own Men, and those on board the Strafford, Capt. Trevor, which folJowed him, from Firing. In the mean time the Seamen had climb'd up the Walls of the lower Battery and ftruck the Colours, and then drew the Soldiers up after them, to whom the Spaniards, who had retired to the upper Part of the Fort. foon after furrendred at Difcretion. Their Number was only 5 Officers and 35 Men, out of above 300, the reft being either killed or wounded, or having made their Efcape."" -The Ships that went in before the Admiral, were fallen to Leeward, fo as to be out of Sight of the Gloria Caffle; but the Admiral's -Ship lying open to the faid Caftle, they kept firing one of their longeft Guns at him till Night; but not being within Point-blank, their Shot either fell fhort, or went over him; tonly one Shot went thro' the Head of his "Foretop-maft, just above the Rigging, so that it did no Harm. The Admiral finding they continued their Firing, tried fome of his lower Tier at them; which being new Guns, anfwered beyond Expectation, carrying over the Gloria Caffle into the Town; none of the Shot falling hort, and one of them going thro' the Go«vernor's 's Houfe, and fome thro' other Houfes in the Town. This fuccefsful Beginning was attended with a very inconfiderable Lofs, there being only 3 Men killed and 5 wounded on board the Admiral's Ship; the like Number were killed and wounded on board the Worcester, and one -Man had both his Legs fhot off on board the Hampton-Court. The other Ships had none killed or wounded, and only two Soldiers were fhot going ashore, one of which died foon after of his Wounds.. The next Morning, being the zad, the Admiral went on board Commodore Brown, to call the Captains to confult together, and give out the neceffary Orders for warping the Ships up the next Night, in order to attack the Gloria Cafierthe Night following, as it would not have been practicable to attempt it in the Day-time. But in this he was pre vented, by the Enemy's putting up a White Flag at the Garia Caffle, and fending a Boat with a Flag of Truce to the Admiral, with the Governor's Adjutant, and a Lieutenant of a Man of War, who brought the Conditions figned on which they defir'd to capitu Jate, In Aniwer to which, the Adiniral im2 wordiately drew up the Terms on which hè would admit them to Capitulation, and difpatched them back again, allowing them only few Hours to take their Refolution; and within the Time limited they accepted the Conditions offered them. And before Night, on Thursday the faid 22d of Nov. the Admiral fent Captain Newton, who commanded the Detachment of Soldiers from Jamaica, with about 120 of the fald Soldiers, who took Poffeffion of Gloria Caftle and St. Jeronimo Fort, being the remaining Fortreffes that guarded the Harbour of Porto Bello, the Glo via Caftle lying just below the Town, and St. Jeronimo Fort just above it. Articles of Capitulation granted by Edward Vernon, Efq; Vice-Admiral of the Blue, and Commander in Chief of his Majefty's Ships and Veffels in the West Indies, and Commodore Brown; to Don Francifco Martines de Retez, Governor of Porto Bello, and Don Francifco de Abaroa, Commandant of the Guarda Coftas at the fame Place, the 22d of November 1739. 0. S. Artic. I. That the Garifon be allowed to march out, as defired, upon Condition the King of Great Britain's Troops be put into Poffeffion of Gloria Caftie, before Four of the "Clock this Evening, and the Garifun to march out by Ten of the Clock To-morrow Morning. That the Inhabitants may either remove, or remain, under a Promife of Security for themselves and their Effects... II. That the Spanish Soldiers may have a -Guard, if they think it neceffary. III. They may carry off two Cannons mounted, with ten Charges of Powder for each, and their Match lighted. IV. The Gates of the Gloria Cafle muft abfolutely be in Poffeffion of the King our Mafter's Troops, by Four of the Clock, and the Spanish Garison shall remain in all Safety for their Perfons and Effects, till the appointed Time for their marching out, and to carry with them the Provifions and Ammunition neceffary for their Safety V. That the Ships, with their Apparel and Arms, be abfolutely delivered up to the Use of his Britannick Majefty; but that all the Officers, both Soldiers and Crew, fhall have three Days allowed them to retire with all their Perfonal Effects; only one Officer being admitted on Board each Ship and Vessel, to take Poffeffion for the King our Mafter, and fee this Article ftrictly comply'd with. VI. That provided the Articles abovementioned are strictly complied with, and that Poffeffion be given of Caffle St. Ferenimo, in the fame Manner as is ftipulated for the Caftle Gloria, then the Clergy, the Churches and Town, fhall be protected and preserved in all their Immunities and Properties. And that all Prifoners already taken shall be fet at Liberty before our leaving the Port. Given under our Hands, on Board bis Majefty's Ship Burford, in Porto Bello Harbour, this 22d Day of November, 1739. 0. S. E. VERNON. CHA, BROWN. There were in the Harbour two Spanish Men of War, of zo Guns each, and a Snow; >the Crews of which feeing the regular and bold Attack which was made on the Iron Fort, and defpairing of being able to defend themselves, fell to plundering the Town in the Night of the 21ft, and committed great Outrages on the Inhabitants. The Admiral took on Board his Ships from the feveral Fortreffes 40 Pieces of Brass Cannon, 10 Brafs Field-Pieces, 4 Brass Mortars, and 18 Brass Pattereroes; and rendered unferviceable above 80 Iron Cannon, by knocking off the Trunnions, and fpiking them up: He alfo took on board all their Shot and Ammunition, except 122 Barrels of Powder, which he expended in fpringing Mines, by which all the Fortifications of the Forts were blown up, - and entirely demolished, and the Harbour left open and defenceless. Ten thousand Dollars, that were arrived and defigned for paying the King of Spain's Troops at Porto Bello, falling into the Admiral's Hands, he diftributed them among his Majefty's Forces for their Encouragement. The Admiral was join'd at Porto Bello on the 27th of Nov. by his Majefty's Ship the Diamond, Capt. Knowles; and on the 29th by the Windfor, Capt. Berkeley; and the Anglefea, Capt. Reddifb; he having left Orders at the Leeward Islands for the faid Ships to follow him. The principal Engineer in the Mining Work, was Capt. Knowles of the. Diamond, affifted by Capt. Bofearven, (who defired he might ferve in this Expedition as a Volunteer, his Ship the Storebam not being fit for the Sea) and by Mr. Barnes, Purfer of the Worceffer, who having been an Officer in the Army, was very useful on this Occafion, Commodore Brown had the chief Direction of what was neceffary to be done at Gloria Caftle and St. Jeronimo Fort; and Capt. Watson, Capt. of the Admiral's Ship, took care of the Execution of all that was to be done at the Iron Fort, which was built on a Rock; the Walls of the lower Battery, which confifted of 22 Guns, were nine Foot thick, and of a hard Stone, cemented with, fuch a fine Mortar, that it was a long Work to make any Impresion in it to come to Mine at all. The lower Battery at Gloria Cafile confifted of two regular Baftions, and a Curtain between them, mounted with 22 Guns, besides a Line of 8 Guns that pointed to the Mouth of the Harbour; and all the other Guns they had on the Moorish Parts of both Caftles, befides their Battery on St. Jeronimo, render'd the Entrance of the Harbour very difficult and dangerous. In Confideration of the Services performed by Capt. Rentene (who acted as a Pilot in this Expedition) the Admiral thought fit to appoint him Commander of the Spanish Snow taken in the Harbour of Porto Bello; and to send his Difpatches by him to England in the said Snow ; and the two 20 Gun Ships, which were Spanish Guarda Coftas, were by the Admiral's Order fitted up, and taken along with him. On the 6th of Dec. the Admiral was joined at Porto Bello by his Majesty's Ship the Sheermess, Capt. Stapleton, which he had fent to 'cruize; off Carthagena, and which had taken two Vessels, with Supplies of Ammunition, Stores and Provifions, that were going to Carthagena. On the 7th in the Evening Capt. Stapleton having taken in Water, was fent by the Admiral to cruize on his former Station. During the Admiral's Stay at Porto Bello, The sent a Letter to the Prefident of Panama, demanding the Releasement of the Factors and Servants of the South-Sea Company, who were confined at that Place; in confequence of which, the Prefident of Panama fent an Officer with Mr. Humphreys and Dr. Wright, Factors, and alfo with the Servants of the Scutb-Sea Company, who were delivered to the Admiral at Porto Bello. The Governor and Inhabitants of Porto Bello expreffed the greatest Senfe of the Humanity and Generofity, with which they were treated by the Admiral, and his Majefty's Squadron under his Command. On the 13th of Dea Vice-Admiral Vernon, with his Squadron, failed from Porto Bello for Jamaica; and being off Carthagena, en the 28th of Dec. fent away Capt. Rentone in the Spanish Snow for England. After this remarkable News, a short Account of the Place may be agreeable to fome of our Readers, by which they will fee of what Importance it was to the Spaniards. Porto Bello is on the North Side of the famous Ifthmus of America, commonly call'd the Ifthmus of Darien, which running in a manner from Eaft to West, between the North and South Seas, joins the two vaft Continents of North and South America. It is about 18 Leagues from Panama, which lies on the South Side of the faid Ifthmus. Porte Bello is a very fair, large and commodious Harbour, affording good Anchoring, and good Shelter for Ships, having a narrow Mouth, and fpreading wider within. How it was fortify'd and defended, may fufficiently appear from the brave Exploits of Admiral Vernon, before related. At the Bottom of the Harbour lies the Town, bending along the Shore like a Half-moon. It is long and narrow, having two principal Streets, befides thofe that go acrofe; with a fmall Parade, about the Middle of it, furrounded with, pietry & |