At the River Albany; at Moofe River; and a small houfe, at Slude River. The faips employed in the trade pafs the Straits the beginning of Auguit, and return in September. The navigation is SUNDAY very safe, not a ship being loft in twenty GARRICK'S MONUMENT, IN WESTMINSTER-ABBEY. UNDAY (the 11th of June) the new monument to the memory of the late David Garrick, Efq. in Poets Corner, Weltminster-abbey, was opened. This interefting and well-executed tribute of a private friend, to the memory of a man to whom the Public owe amufement of the highest kind, being now opened for inspection, feme defcription of it, by explaining the Sculptor's designs, may be useful and proper. Garrick is reprefented at full length, in an animated po fition, throwing aside a curtain, which discovers a medallion of the great Poet, whom he has illuftrated; while Tragedy and Comedy, adorned with their relpective emblems, and half feated on a pedeftal, feem to approve the tribute. The curtain itfelf is defigned to reprefent the Veil of Ignorance and Barbarifm, which darkened the Drama of the immortal Bard till the appearance of Garrick.The careffing attitude, airy figure, and fmiling countenance of the Comic Mufe, is intended to defcribe the fatisfaction fhe derives from at length beholding a memorial to her favourite; while Melpomene, with a more majestic and dignified mien, raifing her veil, gazes with characteristic admiration on the "fovereign of the willing foul," whom the at once delights in and deplores. The fimilitude to Garrick will immediately be felt by every fpectator who has his features in TO THE MEMORY OF DAVID GARRICK, AT THE AGE OF 63. To paint fair nature, by divine command, Wide o'er this breathing world, a Gar- Tho' funk in death the forms the Poet drew, The Actor's genius bade them breathe anew. Tho', like the Bard himself, in night they Immortal Garrick call'd them back to fball fhine, And earth irradiate with a beam divine. This Monument, the tribute of a friend, was erected 1797. LYCOPHRON's CASSANDRA, LINE 1397. THE conquefts of Midas are recorded Minos ; meaning Europe: Sororis fanguinem ulcifcens. This fifter is Cleopatra, according to the scholiaft. But who Cle here introduced, interpreters have not 3 E. ODE, ODE, FOR HIS MAJESTY'S BIRTH-DAY, 1797. BY HENRY JAMES PYE, ESQ. POET LAUREAT. A Set to Mufic by Sir W. Parfons, Muf. D. WHILE the frowning Lord of Arms The Mufes ceafe to weave the wreath of War, When o'er Creation's blotted face Drear Night her fable banner rears, And now a flood of radiance ftreams Bleft be the omen---Royal Pair! O may the hymeneal rite That joins the valiant and the fair, Shed on the nations round its placid light! Her fertile plain, tho' Albion fee From favage devaltation free, Tho' with triumphant fails fhe reign Sole Emprefs of the fubje&t Main, She longs to bid the thunders fleep May fhare the bleffings that endear the day Which gave a Patriot King a Patriot Race to fway! RECEIPT FOR PURIFYING THE AIR OF ROOMS INFECTED WITH CONTAGION. FROM DR. CARMICHAEL SMYTH'S LETTER TO LORD SPENCER, FIRST, LORD COMMISSIONER OF THE ADMIRALTY. IMMERSE a tea-cup into a pipkin of heated fand; put into the tea-cup half an ounce of concentrated vitriolic acid, gently heated, and half an ounce of pure mitre in powder. Stir them together with a glafs fpatula, until a confiderable degree of vapour arifes from them. TABLE TABLE TALK; OR, CHARACTERS, ANECDOTES, &c. OF ILLUSTRIOUS AND CELEBRATED BRITISH CHARACTERS, CHIEFLY DURING THE LAST FIFTY YEARS. (MOST OF THEM NEVER BEFORE PUBLISHED.) (Continued from Page 164.) GEORGE VILLIERS, DUKE OF BUCK INGHAM. AMONGST the follies of this very witty and profligate Nobleman, his paffion for chemistry was a principal drain in the diffipation of his immenfe fortune. The hunt after the philofopher's ftone was one of the great impofitions of his time; and, with all his wit and judgment in many other matters, he fell into the belief of this folly: hence he built a laboratory at great expence in his house ; utenfils were provided, and the moft celebrated artists in the tranfmutation of metals employed. The Duke continued this great charge for many years, in the midst of " ten thoufand other freaks which died in thinking;" for whoever was unpaid, cr whoever was neglected, money was to be found to pay the expences of this laboratory, till this chimera, with other extravagancies, caufed him to fell a great part of his estates. In all this time, however, nothing was produced by thofe fons of art but fome discoveries of little value. Excufes and large promises were conftantly held cut; fuch as, "that the glaffes broke, or the man let out the fire, or fome other accident which retarded the grand pro. cefs." At last, the Duke encountering nothing but misfortunes, money very difficult to be had, and the operators finding themfelves flighted, the project entirely fell to the ground. It is impoffible to calculate the expences which the Duke was at in paying the number of Italians, French, and Germans, concerned in this mad undertaking: one of them, we are told in Lemory's Chemittry, of the name of Huniades carried off about fixteen thousand pounds, which, by afterwards lending money to the Duke and others at ufurious intereft, he in a few years increased to thirty thousand; the whele of which he left by will to his fifter, a poor woman who fold earthen-ware in Shoreditch. ATTERBURY, BISHOP OF ROCHESTER. Though it is now generally acknowledged that this truly claffical, yet reftlefs VOL. XXXI. JUNE 1797. and ambitious prelate, was banished by a decifion of the Houfe of Lords, on a charge, not fo fully proved, yet his general character as one ftrongly attached to the interest of the abdicated Familywas always fufpected; and this fufpicion feems to be pretty well confirmed by the following note found amongst the late Dr. Birch's papers : "Lord Harcourt leaving the old Miniftry provoked Atterbury's abufive tongue. He in return declared, that on the Queen's death (Queen Anne), the Bishop came to him and to Lord Bolingbroke, and faid, " Nothing remained but to proclaim King James immediately." He further offered, "if they would give him a guard, to put on his lawnfleeves and head the proceffion." LORD GALWAY. This Nobleman, who is fo often mentioned in the annals of Queen Anne, though not a very fortunate General, was a man of uncommon penetration and merit. He often vifited the old Marchionefs of Halifax, the widow of the celebrated Marquis, who diftinguifhed himself no less as a man of wit than as a great Statesman, during the reigns of Charles, James, and William; and here meeting with the late Earl of Chesterfield, whom he obferved had a ftrong inclination for political life, and at the fame time an unconquerable love of pleasure, with fome tincture of lazinefs, gave him the following advice: "If you intend to be a man of business, you must be an early rifer. In the diftinguifhed pofts rank and fortune will entitle you to fill, you will be liable to have visitors at every hour of the day; and unless you will rife conftantly at an early hour you will never have any leisure for yourself."-This admonition, delivered in the moft obliging manner, made a confiderable impreffion on the mind of young Chefterfield, who ever after obferved that excellent rule, even when he went to bed late, and was advanced in years. LORD CHIEF JUSTICE WILLES. In confirmation of the above advice we fubjoin the following obfervation of Lord Ссс Chief |