Poetical ESSAYS in AUGUST, 1752.

A fresh'ning bloom o'erfpread her cheek,
And loosely fell her hair.
Charm'd with the fight, his bowels yearn,
From whence he spins a thread,
On which he glides as fwift as thought
Down to the fleeping maid..
So grandfire Jove, transported much
By fome fair mortal's charms,
Defcended on a fun-beam down,
And funk into her arms.

And now he travels o'er her breast
With wonder and delight,
And on her tucker, in a fold,
Repos'd his limbs all night.
Snug was the word, and up he rolls
His carcafe full of ill;

So round and black, the might have took
His worship for a pill.

But now the nymph begins to wake,
And lift her radiant eyes;

Nor can I here in language paint
How great was her furprize.
But this I will affirm, had the

An armed man efpy'd there,
"Twou'd not have fcar'd her half fo much
As this vile lurking spider.

In short, fhe fhriek'd, and Sarah ran
Impatient to her aid;

But when the faw the hideous thing,
She likewife was difmay'd.
At length, with equal courage arm'd,
They dash'd him on the floor;

ie there, quoth Charlot, mifcreant vile!
And welter in thy gore.

Yet, ere I take thy forfeit life,

This full conviction gain,

That fraud, and guile, and cobweb art,'
May flourish long in vain.
The fage advice the fpider heard,

As on the floor he lay ;

But just as Sarah reach'd the tongs,
He wifely march'd away.

An EPIGRAM, on two spiteful Brothers.
By Lawrence Nabbs, of WIGAN.
ITH fobbing voice, upon his

WITH death-bed fick,

Thus to his brother fpake expiring Dick:
"Tho', during-all my life-in poverty,→
"Thou never,-Neddy, fhew'dst-con-
["I am dead,-
"cern for me
"I hope, thou wilt-take care,-when
To fee me bury'd." "That I will,"
["never fear,
quoth Ned.
"We'll lay thee deep enough, Dick,
"Thou shalt no longer be a nufance here:
"And, as a fit memorial on thy grave,
"I'll write this epitaph, Here lies a knesse,”

prifing pain

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This fting pierc'd deep; and keen fur
[again
Call'd Dick's departing fpirits back
Sarcafm fo bitter wou'd not let him die,
Till thus he made as bitter a reply;
"And, when thou shalt be laid by me,
dear brother, 20 flies another."
"Some friend, I hope, will write, Here

In council gave new vigour to thy trade i
The pride, the guardian of the British
[drooping Spain,
main;
Scourge of proud France, and dread of
See, how their fleets now fcour rich
Africk's fhore;

Already confcious, Warren is no more!
See too, how high Cape Breton rears its
head,

As pleas'd to hear, its conqueror is dead.
To joy is chang'd the fear of every foe;
As our glad welcome, into fudden woe.
Unaw'd he heard the feas and tempeft

roar,

Fleets overcame, fubdu'd the hoftile fhore;
And fafe return'd from danger and from

toil,

With laurels laden, to his native foil.
But, who, alas! can of an hour be fure?
Oft there's our danger, where we're most
[defies;

fecure.

Who feas and ftorms, and fleets and towers
The hand of death oft feizes by furprize:
So feiz'd it him; when, his great labour
done,

He hop'd t'enjoy the honours he had won,
So the brave lion (the extenfive wood,
To peace reftor'd; its ravagers fubdu'd)
Returning glorious with the noble spoil,
Falls unexpecting in the hidden toil:
Or, from fome fecret ambush, the fell dart
Flies fure unfeen, and fudden rends his
heart.

SACRED CONTENTMENT.
Dedicated to the afflicted Mird.
REAT fource of blifs, fend down a
gracious beam, [tent his theme.
To clear his thoughts, who makes Con-
Content tranfcends a crown, 'tis wif

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dom's mark:

Choice manna

[ark :

treafur'd in religion's A perfect watch, whofe motions firmly

hold:

[gold:

A chymic ftone which lead converts to
An olive-branch brought in a turtle's bill:
An anchor which at fea fecures us ftill:

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Poetical ESSAYS in AUGUST, 1752

A calm in ftorms; a peace where wars
invade :

In frofts a fun-fhine, and in heats a fhade!
That high-tun'd harmony for which we
long :

A fweet præludium to an heav'nly fong!
A Canaan which with ftreams of honey
flows :
[grows :
A graft whereon the fruit of life-tree
Th embroidr'y which the king's fair
daughter wears,
[appears :
When the all-glorious in her foul
The heart's bright ruby.-Who's with
this endu'd

Shines like a ftar of the first magnitude.
But difcontent the active mind with-
draws
[laws :
From facred duties,-croffes reafon's
Changeth to dismal night sweet comfort's
day:

Prolongeth croffes, and doth bleffings stay.
'Tis a dry dropfy that confumes life's
power:
[four:
A lump of leav'n that doth all sweetness
A prickly thorn that fefters in the mind:
A breach where all temptations entrance
find.

This lies in labour of its own distress,
Brought forth by pride, brought up by
peevishness.
[abode

That Nabal-heart in which it makes
Like Ifachar doth couch 'twixt double
load.
[down:
For difcontent, not miferies, weighs us
Water within, not that without, doth
drown.
[we bend,
While to life's moments all our care
"We live unmindful of a deathless end.

Content, rejecting toys, minds things
to come,

Affur'd to have enough to bring her home.
Riches take wing and worldly pleasure's
light;
[fhine by night.)
Glow-worms are worthlefs, tho' they
She bids the worldling not for wealth
afpire :

The greatest wealth is to contract defire :
"She treasures mercies in a grateful heart:
Content and thankfulness all blifs impart.

Thrice happy he who on his God relies,
And, flighting earth, to heaven erects his
eyes;
[is his,
Who, free from care, is pleas'd with what
The world's whole lott'ry proves one
blank to this.

Vexation is a fin, for that lament,
Most discontented for thy discontent.

Thy fmiles I court not, nor thy frowns t fear;

My cares are paft, my head lies quiet here i What faults you faw in me, take care to fhun

Now display

And look at home, enough is to be done.
A Description of a SUMMER'S MORNING.
OW early light the purpl'd kies
[day,
From night's fhort interruption, breaks the
The fun his orient rays remotely spreads,
And gaily gilds th' aerial mountains
heads;

His rifing beams reveal the ripen'd year;
Lo all its beauty, wealth, and pomp
appear!
[and corn,
While, checquer'd verdure, blushing fruits,
The garden, th' orchard, and the field
adorn :
{cries,

to rife;

Now the fhrill cock, by his triumphant
Warns, with the day, the lab'ring swain
[new;
The waking fwains their daily toils re-
The meadows glitter with the pearly dew;
The chearful birds (their nefts relinquish'd)

rove;

The stream re-vifit, re-falute the grove :
With odorif'rous wings, the zephyrs fly;
Joy fills each heart, and pleasure ev'ry

eye ;

While faireft fcenes are ravishingly view'd, Earth feems uncurs'd, and Paradife renew'd.

THE

Of a WINTER'S MORNING. HE bleak North-eaft with nipping rigour reigns, [and plains; Congeals the ponds, and crufts the fields The fun (in mifts arifing) faintly fees Each cottage tipt with fnow-the leaflefs [prey, Silver'd with froft-the fowler, for his With stealing steps, explores the roughen'd [fpies,

trees

way;

The milk-maid he, refembling Daphne,
With freshen'd vigour in her cheeks atid
eyes:

Now curling fmoak from cottages afcends,
And kindled fire his failing heat amends:
The tender gentry, tim'rous of the cold,
Cling to their nests-th' athletick fwain,

more bold,

[hies,

To the near farm, or diftant market
-His limbs infolded with defenfive frize;
-With sturdy ftrides he tramples o'er the
mound,
{ground;
And beats, with iron hoof, the clatt ring
The houshold maid industriously prepares
To regulate her neceffary cares ;
While th' idle landlord, or the fottifa
'fquire,

Slugs in the bed, or hovers o'er the fire.
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HALLIFAX, in NOVA-SCOTIA, May 28. FEW days fince was taken, within the mouth of our harbour, and brought to town, a fea-monster, a female of the kind, whofe body was about the bignefs of that of a large ox, and fomething refembling one, covered with fhort hair, of a brownish coJour; the fkin near one inch and a half thick, very loofe and rough; the neck thick and short, refembling that of a bull;" the head fmall in proportion to the body, and very like an allegator; in the upper jaw were two teeth of about nine or ten inches long, and crooked downwards; the legs very fhort and thick, ending with fins and claws, like thofe of a featurtle the flesh and inwards have been i opened, and refemble thofe of an ox or

horfe.

Extract of a Letter from Bofton in New

England, dated June 6.

The fmall-pox has raged here for feveral months paft, but not mortal till of late: Laft week 87 whites and 8 blacks died. They have inocalated with good fuccefs; for out of 2500 only 31 have died, and those were old Negroes, or people in a bad state of health; of 4500, who took them by infection, 442 have died.

Cork, July 24. There is now in this city one Cornelius Magrath, a boy of 15 years 11 months old, of a most gigan-" tick ftature, being exactly 7 feet 9 inches three quarters high; he is clumsily made, talks boyith and fimple; he came hither from Youghal, where he has been a year going into the falt water for rheumatick pains, which almost crippled him, and the phyficians now fay were growing pains, for he is grown to the monstrous fize he is of within thefe twelve months." He was a month at the bishop of Cloyne's, who took great care of him; his hand is as big as a middling fhoulder of mutton; the last of his fhoe, which he carries about him, meafures 15-inches. He was born in the county of Tipperary, within 5 miles of the filver mines.

On July 27, one Thomas Otley, a barber of Sudbury, in Suffolk, was executed at Bury, for the barbarous murder of his wife, and afterwards hung in

Auguft, 1752.

chains, being the fécond example fince)

the commencement of the late act for.
preventing the horrid crime of murder.
(See p. 334.)

On the 31st, the committee for the
Manfion-house met at the faid houfe, and
fettled all the affairs relative to the fur
nishing it, for the reception of the next"
lord mayor. (See p. 335.)

Surat and Tellicherry having been late. ly the fubject of converfation, (which were faid to be taken by the French, tho' that has been contradiced) the following account may not be difagreeable to our readers. They are two port towns of the hither India in Afia: Surat lies in 72 deg. 20 min. of eaftern longitude; it is fituate in the principality of Guzurat or Cambaya on the river Tapte, 160 miles north of Bombay; being defended only by a flight wall and fome antique forts,. and is about 3 miles in circumference, but very populous and vaftly rich. The English, French, and Dutch had their factors here; but the Moors, Armenians, Banians, Arabs, and Jews, are The English much greater merchants. president lived in the state of a prince; had his coaches, palanquins, and led horfes richly equipped, and when he went abroad, had his guards and a numerous. retinue, the Europeans finding it neceffary for their officers and fervants to make a grand appearance among the eastern nations. The prefident is ufually governor of Bombay, and of all the English fettlements on the weft coaft of India.. This city and the province in which it stands were both entirely fubject to the Great Mogul; but the Malabar coast, on which Tellicherry is fituated, is divided among a great many petty princes and ftates, who were all tributary to the Great Mogul, till one of them took up arms; against him, and has fince,, with the affiftance of the French, made a confiderable progrefs in that part of his dominions. From the factory of Teilicherry Its we ufed chiefly to import popper. eaftern longitude amounts to 75 deg. 12. min. It is fituare about, 40 miles north. of Calicut, which is 300 miles fouth of Goa, and was the firft land the Portuguese difcovered in India, when they found the way by the Cape of Good Hope in 1498. It may be proper to obferve, that neither the city of Surat, nor the town

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of Tellicherry, belong to our East-India company, they having only factories here.