A man of handsome shape and air, The Genii then thus filence broke: (His count'nance bright ning as he spoke) "I lov'd your father, prince, 'tis true, "And for his fake will cherish you; "Already of my fpecial care "You've had no defpicable fhare. << "Twas I repeately that came "To give you counsel in a dream; << "Twas I that on the fattin wrote "The lines that have you hither brought. "Your noble farther, once a year, "Was wont to pay a vifit here, "And every time he took his leave "A precious ftatue did receive. "I had but nine, and eight I gave, "The ninth, far fairer than the reft, "Is what you now from me request; "That is not to be given, but gain'd, "And thus may dearly be obtain'd: "You must find out and bring me here "A maiden in here fifteenth year "(Beauty's best workmanship, her face, "Her fhape, proportion all, and grace) "Who never knew, or wifh'd to know, "What joys from love's embraces flow ;" "And whom, (your felf-denial fuch) "You neither touch'd, nor wifh'd to touch. This to accomplish, you must swear "The oath tremenduous you must take, The prince was too much entete To find what ne'er was found before. But let me caution you once more "Well to remember what you've swore." Thus having his injunctions spoke, The following celebrated Song by the facetious George Alexander Stevens, being greatly enquired after, and very difficult to be obtained, we bave procured the follwing correet Copy for the Entertainment of our Readers. VICAR AND MOSES. TH HERE was once it was faid, Could stick to no text like good ale. The parfon was then non fe ipfe : What's that to the lay, In plain English the parfon was tipfey. The clerk he came in, With a band-bobbing chin, The Clerk humm'd and scrap'd, Now our author fuppofes, And hickupt out, How is it Mofe? A child, fir, is carry'd, By you to be bury'd." Bury me Mofes; no, that won't do. Your quite in the dark, 'Tis a child to be bury'd, not you. Well, prythee, don't hurry, But, dear fir, the corps cannot ftay. For once we will try, If a a corps, Mofes, can run away. Mofes warmly reply'd, Sir, the parish will chide, For keeping them out in cold weather. Go and tell them from me, But, fir, it rains hard, Regard Regard-Mofes that makes me stay; Mofes begg'd he'd be gone, And go, when I'm fure I can't ftand. At length, though fo troubled, To the church-yard he hobbled, Lamenting the length of the way. O, Mofes, faid he, Were I a bishop, d'ye fee, I need neither walk, preach, or pray. But o'er the page only he fquinted, For life's but a day, T Nay, fometimes 'tis over at noon : Cut down in an hour, 'Tis ale, Mofes, does it fo foon. Come let us go forth, Put the child in the earth, We all fhould be duft, If we were not to moisten our clay. So one pot and then ; The Clerk faid, Amen! And thus far we've carry'd the farce on: "Tis the vice of the times, To relish thofe rhymes, Where the ridicule runs on a parfon, THE MONTHLY CHRONOLOGER HIS being St. George's Day, the anniversary of the fociety of Antiquaries, the following members were chofen the council and officers of the fociety for the year enfuing, viz. Dr. Milles, Dean of Exeter, Pr. F. R. S. Thomas Aftle, Efq. F. R. S. Sir J. Aylofte, Bart. F. R. S. V. P. Hon. Daines Barrington, F. R. S. V. P. O. Salusbury Brereton, Efq. F. R. S. V. P James Burrow, Efq. F. R. S. Mr. Jofiah Colbrooke, Tr. Richard Dalton, Efq. A. C. Ducaral, LL. D. F. R. S. Brownlow, Earl of Exeter, F. R. S. Richard Gough, Efq. Dr. Philip, Earl of Hardwick, F. R. S. Thomas Jones, Efq. George-Henry, Earl of Litchfield. Michael Lort, B. D. F. R. S. Tho. Morell, D. D. F. R. S. Sect. William Norris, A. M. Sect. Governor Pownal. Edward Solly, Efq. James Weft, Esq. Pr. R. S. V. P. Daniel Wray, Efq. F. R. S. FRIDAY, 26. The special verdict, fome time fince obtain ed by Mr. Stock, an attorney, against Gabriel Harris, Efq. the poftmaster of Gloucefter for not delivering a letter to him directed at his place of abode without payment of a further gratuity than the legal poft-age, came on for a fecond Argument in the Court of king's bench; when the court gave judgement for the Plaintiff, declaring, that by the feveral acts relating to the poft-office, all let sers must be delivered by the poftmaster of every poft town to the perfons to whom fuch letters are directed without any other gratuity than the legal rate of poftage; and that the limits or extent of the places at which such letters are to be delivered, can only be fettled by the customs of fuch poft town. TUESDAY, 30. Extract of a Letter from Abingdon. "Yesterday, at half an hour after five in the afternoon, a smart shock of an earthquake was felt through the whole length of this town; it was but momentary, yet fufficiently diftinguished by many perfons fo as to find themfelves lifted up in their chairs, and the pavement moved at the fame time. Some, who were drinking tea, obferved the tea cups and faucers to vibrate ftrongly upon the table; in other houses the tables quivered against the wall, as if fhaken with the motion of fome carriage, and with fuch fort of noise. How far this motion of the earth has been felt in the neighbouring country, we have not yet heard, nor of any mifchief that has been done by it. The wind was eafterly, and remarkably still at the time, though the preceding part of the afternoon it had been rather high, and fome rain had fallen." 'At the fame time the inhabitants of Watlington, Balden, Milton, Thame, and the intermediate places, in the Eastern parts of Oxfordshire were alarmed by the shock of an earthquake, which they defcribe as a tremulous, vibrating kind of agitation, for near a minute, preceded by a rumbling noise: hapN n 2 pily pily, however, the worst effects with which it has been attended, feem to be the terror naturally impreffed upon the mind by the many fatal catastrophes refulting from convulfions of this nature. FRIDAY, May, 3. At a court of common council held at Guildhall, a petition to the king relative to the bill for the embankment at DurhamYard, was read and agreed to; and the sheriffs, attended by the city remembrancer, went to St. James's and prefented the said petition to his majesty, It was ordered that the fum of thirty thoufand pounds be laid out in three per cent confolidated, and veited in the names of the chamberlain, town-clerk, and comptroller, as a fecurity in Lieu of the Toll, and other matters refpecting the Bridge Houfe eftate. It was moved that this court, with the city officers, be defired to attend the Right Hon. Brafs Crofby, Lord Mayor, and Mr. Alderman Oliver, in their gowns in proceffion from the tower to the Manfion-house, on their enlargement from their prefent confinement, and on being put was carried unanimously. TUESDAY, 7. This day judgment was given by the Lord Chancellor in the House of Peers in Lord Chatham's appeal in favour of his lordship; the Lord Chancellor firft took the opinion of the judges on a point in law, and eight judges out of eleven fpoke for his lordship. Lord Chatham firft gained his appeal in law before the master of the Rolls, against the heirs of Sir William Pynfent, fome time fince, and afterwards in an appeal in which Henry Daw Tothill, Efq; one of the heirs at law, and who was in this caufe one of the refpondents, was then plaintiff, caft his lordship before the lords commiffioners of the feals in the court of Chancery, in 10,000 l. but his lordship now has gained the decree before given by the Mafter of the Rolls, fo that the affair remains finally decided in favour of Lord Chatham. WEDNESDAY, 8. His majefty went in ftate to the Houfe of Peers, where he gave the royal affent to fuch public and private bills as had pafled both houfes; after which he clofed the feffion by a gracious fpeech, when the Lord Chancellor, by his majefty's command, prorogued the parliament to Tuesday the 23d of July next. As foon as it was certainly known that his majefty would go to the houfe, to put an end to the feffion of parliament, fummonfes were iffued out from Guildhall, to the aldermen and common-council, figned D. Smith, defiring their attendance at Guildhall (the aldermen in their fcarlet gowns) and from thence to proceed to the Tower, to conduct the Lord Mayor and Mr. Alderman Oliver to the Manfion-houfe, in the state coach, Accordingly, about two o'clock, part of the court of aldermen, and almost the whole common-council, preceded by the city marfhal and is deputy, went from Guildhall to the Tower. There were fifty-three carriages in the train. The hon. members of the artillery company accompanied the proceffion in their uniform, which made a very fine appearance. On the Lord Mayor and Mr. Oliver's being brought to the Tower Gate by the proper officer of that fortress, they were faluted by twenty-one pieces of cannon belonging to the Artillery Company, and received by the people with the greateft acclamations, whichwere continued all the way to the Mansionhouse. On their arrival at the balluftrades fronting the great gate, the Lord Mayor and Mr. Oliver bowed in return to the people affembled, and were again faluted with loud and univerfal huzzas. Sir William Stephenfon, and the aldermen Townsend. Sawbridge, Wilkes, and Trecothick, were in the proceffion. The Lord Mayor invited the aldermen and the committee to dine with his lordship at the Manfion-house. The common-council are to have that honour another opportunity, there not being time to make preparations for fo large a company. The city was grandly illuminated. The populace broke down the iron gates at Serjeant's Inn, Fleetftreet, and obliged the inhabitants to put up lights. They likewife affembled about the houfe of Sir Fletcher Norton, Speaker of the honourable House of Commons, and were very outrageous, breaking all the windows, together with thofe of feveral other houfes which were not illuminated. A few days fince, as a farmer and his fervants were ploughing up fome fresh lands in the parish of Hickling, near the Vale of Belvoir in Rutlandshire, about ten miles from Nottingham, in which neighbourhood Camden informs us there was a Roman ftation, the plough-fhare truck upon an urn, or earthen pot, broke it in pieces, and feattered a great number of Roman coins, fome copper, and many filver ones, feveral as antient as the emperors Vefpafian and Adrian; many of which were purchased by the rector of Hickling. The following advertisement appeared in the public papers. "THE friends of the Chevalier D'Eon being extremely uneafy on account of his abfence from his houfe in Petty France, Westminster, fince laft Tuesday in the afternoon, no intelligence of any kind having been received of him from that time. This is to requeft him, if he is at liberty, to re lieve his friends from the anxiety they fuffer, by fending a line to Mr. Fountain in Litchfield-ftreet, Soho. And in cafe the Chevalier is concealed or restrained of his liberty, or any violence has been committed against his perfon, whoever can give intelligence of any fuch concealment or violence, and will difcover to the faid Mr. Fountain where he is, fhall, on giving information of the place where he is concealed, receive a very handfome reward, with all juft and reasonable expences, on fufficient proofs given of the facts and manner of his confinement, fo as that proper and effectual means may be taken for the recovery of his liberty. He was drefied, when he left his houfe (which was about four o'clock) in fcarlet, faced with green, with his Croix de St. Louis, had a plain new hat, with filver button, loop, and band, with his fword, but without his cane; he went out alone, leaving orders with his fervant, to call on him at a friend's house, at ten o'clock, but had not been there, nor been heard of fince." MONDAY, 13, At an attendance on the attorney-general, (by adjournment from Saturday evening) pursuant to a fummons on Saturday, the indictment and affidavit of the defendant Whittham was read, when Mr. Adair, counsel for the profecutor, proceeded to fhew cause why a Noli Profequi fhould not be entered. The exercife of that prerogative, he obferved, although vefted in the hands of the attorney-general according to the laws of the land, yet the practice was of a modern date; that Lord Chief Justice Holt thought it hard fuch a power should be vefted in the attorneygeneral. He quoted cafes to prove his pofition, and confidered the defendant as having no legal authority to execute the warrant of the fpeaker, and that the charge in the indictment was admitted by the affidavit. He contended, that there did not appear any thing upon the face of the indictment, oppreffive and unfit for a difcuffion in a court of juftice, or which could afford any reafon for Mr. attorney's entering a Noli Profequi. Mr. Adair then ftated the affidavit, and concluded. There being no counfel for the defendant, the attorney-general froke as follows: "It was not fit the king fhould interpofe as a profecutor of a meffenger of the House of Commons, who had the authority of the house for what he did. As it has been stated, the order of the houfe was for the ferjeant or deputy-ferjeant to take the profecutor into cuftody. A doubt arifes whether the fpeaker could authorife any other perfon but the fereant, or deputy-ferjeant, which is a question jof law; but it has been the constant practice to employ the meffengers upon the orders of the boufe." And after ftating a few other diftinctions, he concluded, "that it was not fit or decent for the name of the crown to ftand as profecutor of a meffenger of the Houfe of Commons, who acted by their authority." Mr. Adair replied, (amongst other arguments) "That if the king withdrew his name from the profecution, it would operate the fame as a pardon, which would be an injury to the real profecutor, the crown being only nominal. That it would be extremely proper it fhould come before a court of law, who, if they were of opinion that it was a competent authority, would acquit the de fendant." The attorney-general then faid, "I do not place it in tenderness to Mr. Whittam, or the privileges of the Houfe of Commons, but it is indecent that the name of the crown fhould continue as the prosecutor of a meffenger of the Houfe of Commons." The Noli Profequi was accordingly entered. A letter was received from Mr. Sydney Parkinfon, principal drawer to Mr. Banks, who, with Dr. Solander, went, in June 1768. in the Endeavour barque, to obferve the tranfit of Venus over the disk of the fun, June 3, 1769: the letter gives an account, that they met with great hardships, and were often in danger of being fhipwrecked; three of the fhip's complement, who went up the country in fearch of provifion, perifhed with cold, and one of the draughtfmen died a natural death. They arrived at the deftined place the beginning of February 1769, four months before the tran-, fit, ftudied the language of the country, and became familiar with the inhabitants, of whom there is a very good account. They. have picked up a vaft number of plants, and other curiofities, and are expected in England fome time next month. MONDAY, 20. A fire broke out at the houfe of Capt. Reverly, of the fhip Colebrooke, in the Weft India trade, in Princess-street, Rotherhith, which confumed that house, with the greatest part of the furniture, and damaged the houses of Capt. Curling and Capt. Daverfon. It is faid to have been occafioned by one of the maids, who having been out the whole day making holiday, was over-fatigued, and went to bed, leaving her candle. burning, which fet fire to the curtain. Her. arm was burnt in a terrible manner; and the whole family narrowly faved their lives. TUESDAY, 21. Extract of a Letter from Portsmouth. "On Sunday Commodore Byron failed in his majefty's fhip Panther, for his ftation at Newfoundland, The fame evening arrived here his grace the duke of Buccleugh, and on Monday went on board all the fhips at Spithead, and was. alternately faluted by each fhip. This morning about 12 o'clock, came in fight the royal yatch with Lord Sandwich, firft lord of the admiralty, to view the fhip ping and dock-yard in this port: fhe was fired at to bring too at St. Helen's, to wait the turn of the tide, fo we expect them in the harbour about 3 o'clock.” The following is faid to be the real caufe of the earl of Sandwich's prefent furvey of the dock yards: at the beginning of the laft feffion of parliament, Sir Edward Hawke declared, not only in the Houfe of Commons, but in the privy council, that a certain number of fhips were fit for immediate fervice; in a few days aftewards he was obliged to retract the affertion he had made, not one third of the number being fit for fea. Sir Edward was therefore fummoned to a cabinet council. His defence was, that he fpoke from the reports made to him by the furveyor of the navy, Sir Thomas Slade. It was then refolved in council, that Sir Thomas should answer for his conduct before the Houfe of Commons. This refolution being taken only two or three days previous to the adjournment of the houfe for the Christmas holidays, it was referred to the next meeting, before which time Sir Thomas Slade died. On this occafion a certain nobleman was heard to fay, he died juft in time to fave his neck. It was then agreed in council, that Sir Edward Hawke fhould be difmiffed, and that for the future the navy and dock yards, throughout the kingdom, fhould be furveyed by the lords of the admiralty every two years. WEDNESDAY, 22. The lords of the treafury have ordered money to be iffued out, for paying off the civil lift revenue to Christmas laft. A model of a fhip, moft exquifitely finifhed, though not a yard in length, is now ready at Sir Charles Knowles's houfe, to be fhipped off for Ruffia, where Sir Charles intends it as a prefent for the grand duke, with whom, as well as with the emprefs, he ftands in a very diftinguished point of eftimation. FRIDAY, 24, This morning at feven o'clock, the earl of Bute arrived at his house in South-Audleyfrect, from abroad. IRELAND. Extra of a Letter from Ireland, May 4. "Affairs here are in a very ticklish fituation; the 1-d 1-t dares not stir from the caftle; a guard of the military conftantly patroling Dublin ftreets. The late speaker (Mr. Ponfonby) the marquis of Kildare, Charles Lucas, and Flood, are idolized by us as much as Crosby, Wilkes, and Oliver are by you. Our courtiers here are in hourly terror of their lives, as the Irish mob are remarkably defperate; a patriotic chief magiftrate here would not long remain a ftate prifoner; matters in the country are really terrible." Extract of a Letter from Dublin, May 18. "As our feffions, and of course all parliamentary bufinefs has closed this evening, I fancy it will not be unfatisfactory to you to receive an account of the few paft days tranfactions in brief, until I have leifure more at large to fum up the important transactions of a feftion fo honourable to the governor and government here. His excellency was unluckily confined by fick nefs to his country lodge on Wednesday and Thursday, and did not come to town until yefterday to receive the most respectable addrefics of the lords and commons, which were brought to the caftle with the most dignified attendance that ever has been seen on the like occafion. The whole city was most remarkably peaceable during that transaction, and equally fo this day, when his excellency went to the house to put an end to the feffion. Every art had been used by incendiary publications to raise riots on each day, but all proved ineffectual. There was an ufual temporary review of the forces appointed for last Thursday, before the regiments marched for country quarters. On thofe occafions the chief governor never attends, yet malevolent fcribblers declared in the Freeman's Journal, that his excellency (who was then fick) was afraid to appear on the parade upon that day. The whole you may rely upon is falfe: The addrefs of the commons was carried 110 to 50; that of the lords 58 to 13. Upwards of 100 commoners attended the fpeaker, near 50 lords the chancellor, when going to the caftle. The whole city is tranquil, and I doubt not will continue fo. A farther account I shall fhortly give, when the addreffes and anfwers are published. P. S. Mr. Ponf-y, whom you know refufed to attend the lord lieutenant with the former addrefs, clofed the fpeeches this day in the commons by a panegyric on his excellency's conduct during his refidence in this kingdom." AMERICA, Extract of a Letter from Newport, RhodeIfland, March 18. "By advices from Hifpaniola we learn, that earthquakes fill frequently happen at Port-au-Prince; and that there is water over the lands funk there, by the late earthquake, fufficient to float a veffel of 500 tons," |