134 Poetical ESSAYS in Shew'd where my judgment was difplac'd; Refin'd my fancy and my taste. Behold that beauty juft decay'd, Stella to you, her tutor, owes, "Till time fhall make their paffions cool; Epitaph on the late Mr. John Hippefley, of facetious Memory; buried at Clifton in Gloucestershire. WHEN the flage heard that death had ftruck her John, Gay comedy her fables first put on ; Laughter lamented that her fav'rite dy'd; And mirth berfelf ('tis ftrange!) laid down and cry'd ; [to mourn, Wit droop'd his head, e'en humour feem'd And folemnly fat penfive o'er his urn. On Mils BETSY LONG. (See Lond. Mag. for June 1754, p. 279.) OVE all the pride of beauty now had In turns Alcmena, Danax, Leda lov'd; 5 MARCH, 1755. With many more, who all had ceas'd to charm ; [warm; Their beauties grown familiar: He lefs At length refolv'd to form one fair compleat, In whom the energy of all fhould meet ; All charms wherein each did the the reft furpafs, {mafs; remov'd, He pick'd; and join'd them in one happy With care each blemish from the work [lov'd; Then look'd and found it worthy to be Pleas'd thus love's grateful empire to pro[fair one LONG. long, He fmil'd; then nam'd th' accomplish'd Norwich, Feb. 28, 1755. IN ERASTES. The SURPRIZE. N Goodwood grove, with beach o'er A noted temple stands ; But one worth all the rest. To them in vain you fhew your ails To give the wretch relief. Thro' that, afcends the fkies. And fuch they are, but for their clothes, Which t'others never wear. Each to her altar inftant hies, Her cenfer in her hand, Each fuppliant bends the knee, Succeeded one another. Pleas'd all this while the goddess bends Fler noftrils from the top, And foufis, while every altar fends Its curling odour up. But fudden lo! A dreadful man, Appearing to their fight, This way and that, amaz'd, they ran, Some Poetical ESSAYS in MARCH, 1755. Same have averr'd, but this how true As yet I have not found, Incenfe and holy water too, Were spread upon the ground. Of foolish virgins and of wife, You oft have heard before, As you the latter title prize, Hence forward shut the door. 3: By fair Narciffa's brighter eyes On Mifs N. Ws, of Birmingham. A To council call'd the pow'rs above; Refolv'd that all should lend their aid, Whenever Cupid fhall refign, The belle fhall rife th' accomplish'd wife; Gently to footh a husband's breaft; 135 PROLOGUE and EPILOGUE to the new Tragedy of APPIUS, lately acted at the Theatre-Royal in Covent-Garden. PROLOGUE. Spoken by Mr. Cibber. fame, How great the poet's tafk, aobo, new to Rome from the bloody yoke of Appius freed. tear. Our author hopes flight errors you'll excufe ; Since cubo could ever Loaft a faultless mufe? His Roman fubject, with attention due, With candour treated, be fubmits to you. To your bigh judgment be fubmits bis caufe Alike refign'd to cenfure or applause.— Britons! your native equity display z And judge, like Romans, of what Romans jay. EPILOGUE. Written by a FRIEND. Spoken by Mrs. Bellamy. IT TOLD the bard-(ay, yonder be ftands quaking, Alas! poor foul, he's in a pitecus taking !)I hope, Sir, you'll excufe what I fall fay But truely, Sir, I tremble for your play. There's a wild greatness in the plot, Iorun : But then, I doubt, it may difpleafe the town. "The town (reply'd our author) disapprove "A plot that's built on liberty and love "Is not the fav'rite character a woman? "The moral chafte and pure? The subject 136 Poetical ESSAYS in MARCH, 1755. The flory may (for ought I know) be true: Tover? "For one- -(arboufandother faults combining)"That now was to the vale of years declining ?"— So then, had Appius been but five and twenty, The maid perhaps would not have prov'd so dainty. Icilius vow'd indeed, and promis'd well : Or, dy a,-like a true Lover,-by ber Ade.- Then for the grim old fire, with frenzy wild, On the intended Academy for the Encourage- In vain defert glows bright within its sphere A foreign tafte degrades the British- [home, Shall this neglect, this dearth of arts at [rain, And tenfold increase fwells the peafant's The feeds of genius and the love of art; Yefoul-bright few! ye heav'nly-favour'd wife ! Ye Chesterfields! ye Lytteltons, arife! The Era's come when your approving voice Shall make the fons of liberty rejoice; And unborn ages thus tranfmit your fame: THE Monthly Chronologer. Hiladelphia, Jan. 2. Five trial of near nine hours, the jury found days ago we received certain intelligence, that a body of near 6000 of the best troops of France, felected and fent over upon this particular fervice, are just arrived at the lower fort upon the Ohio, and are employed, even in this rigorous feafon, in fortifying that country. In September laft, the French men of war that brought them over, were feen not far from the entrance of the river St. Laurence, into which we are now certain they went, and landed at Quebec. After a fhort ftay in that city, they were seen by our Indian traders paffing the lakes Ofwego and Erie, in a prodigious number of battoes; of which the feveral governors received notice, tho' we did not then conjecture that it was an armament from Old France. TUESDAY, Feb. 25. The chancellor, lord high fteward, and two reprefentatives of the university of Oxford, waited on the counters dowager of Pomfret, with a letter of thanks, under the univerfity feal, for her intended noble benefaction, of the Pomfret collection of antique ftatues, bufts, and other marbles, to that university. (See p. 131.) The houfe of Thomas Chambers, Efq; at Studley, in Warwickshire, with all the furniture, was confumed by fire. SATURDAY, March 1. A fugar baker's houfe near the Blue Boar Inn, in Holborn, was confumed by fire. TUESDAY, 4. A houfe was confumed by fire in Oxford Road. Ended the feffions at the Old-Bailey, when William Burk, for robbing Mr. Manby on Tower-hill; John Burton, for breaking the dwelling houfe of John Hall, in Warwick-lane, and stealing a 'quantity of goods; Edward Haines, for stealing goods from a warehoufe, and Thomas King, for ftealing a filver tankard from an house in the Old Artillery -ground, received fentence of death; thirty-seven to be tranfported for feven years, one for 14 years, and one to be branded. Stephen McDonald, John Berry, James Egan, and James Salmon, four thieftakers, were tried as acceffaries before the fact, in procuring the faid James Salmon to be robbed by Peter Kelley and John Ellis, in the county of Kent (for which they were both convicted laft affizes at Maidstone) with intent to get the reward on their conviction. After a March, 1755 them guilty at common law, but returned a verdict fpecial, upon the two particular statutes on which they were indicted. Thefe wretches have received 1720l. from the Treafury, for perions taken by, and condemned on their evidence, at the Old-Bailey only, and they have enfnared, there and elfewhere, upwards of 70 men, &c. SATURDAY, 8. Was held a general court of the Free British Fishery, when Mr. Alderman Bethell, the prefident, acquainted the pro. prietors with the favourable reception which the Hon. houfe of commons had given to the fociety's petition; and the refolutions of that Hon. houfe were read. A very worthy member of the council then gave them an account of the fituation of their affairs, and very plainly fhewed, that the errors hitherto fallen into were very remediable, the loffes hitherto fuftained retrievable, and that by the bleffing of Providence this noble undertaking might yet be made a great national advantage, as well as prove beneficial to the proprietors, who, in general, without private views, have embarked a very large fum of money to carry on fo defirable and publick an undertaking. Upon which it was agreed, with great alacrity, to carry on this commercial defign with fpirit and application, and in purfuance thereof a call of five per cent. was voted, to be paid in two months. The thanks of the proprietors were very justly voted to the prefident, vice-prefident, and gentlemen of the council, for the attention they had given to the fociety's affairs in general, and in particular for their endeavours to carry into execution the fociety's petition to the Hon. houfe of commons. TUESDAY, II. The term for the bounty to feamen, (fee p. 89.) being expired, a new proclamation was iffued for continuing the bounties of 31. and 40s. till the last day of March, and for granting the like bounty to feamen, who entered on or before Feb. 6. laft, with thofe that fince entered, and for continuing the rewards for discovery of concealed feamen. Alfo promifing 20s. to fuch able-bodied landmen, as have entered fince the 23d of January, or fhall enter before the last of March. FRIDAY, 14. At a court of common council, Mr. Thomas Beach was elected coroner for the city of London, &c. in the room of Mr. King, deseafed. Mr. George Crew was + 138 The MONTHLY CHRONOLOGER. March was the other candidate, and the num MONDAY, 17. The eight following malefactors were executed at Tyburn, pursuant to their fentence, viz. John Prefton, John Dyfon, Jofeph Gill, William Burk, Edward Delarand, Thomas Trevis, Edward Haynes, and John Burton. The furgeons got four of their bodies. Burk behaved remarkably decent, and declared, that Gill and limfelf committed the robbery for which one Robins is now under fentence of death, whofe execution was refpited for three weeks, as was that of John Moody for 10 days, and the other four malefactors were ordered for transportation. THURSDAY, 20. His majefty went to the house of peers, and gave the royal affent to a bill, for vefting Montague-house in trustees, and enabling them to convey it to the trustees of the British Mufeum for a general repo. fitory; for preventing the holding of any market in the High-ftreet in the Borough of Southwark; for establishing a ferry acrofs the Thames from Ratcliff to Rotherhithe; for enlightening the streets, &c. of St. Bartholomew the Great, in the city of London; for enlightening the streets, establishing a watch, &c. in the city of Briftol; for enlightening the ftreets, &c. at Leeds, in Yorkshire; for allowing further time for the enrollment of deeds and wills made by Papists; for diffolving the marriage of Richard Morgan, Efq; and Anne Hall, and to enable him to marry again; and to a great number of other private bills. Was held a general court of the governors and company of the Bank of England, when a dividend of 24 per cent. was declared for the half year ending the 5th of next month. MONDAY, 24. Arrived an exprefs at the Admiralty, brought by the Gibraltar, advifing, that commodore Keppel was arrived at Virginia with the Norwich and the Centurion; but five days before their arrival they met with a storm, which did them fome damage. WEDNESDAY, 26. Both houfes of parliament waited on his majesty with their addresses. (See p. 103.) The commons addrefs was much the fame in fubftance with the lords. At Winchester affizes, three perfons were capitally convicted, one of them, a woman, for murder: At Hertford, 6, two of them for a murder committed. three years fince: At Northampton, 2, but afterwards reprieved: At Aylesbury, 2, Davis the tallowchandler, for robbing the mail, and another for the highway, who was reprieved: At Oxford, 7, four of whom were reprieved. Six were capitally convicted at Salisbury, three at Worcester, five at Chelmsford, four of whom were reprieved, two at Huntingdon; but at Dorchefter none: At Lancafter, 1, for the murder of his wife: At Cambridge, : At Huntingdon, 1: At Nottingham, I, who was reprieved: At Exeter, 3: At Stafford, 5, who were reprieved At Shrewsbury, 1, who was reprieved, and at Rochester, 4. A LIST of SHIPS in Commission, March 13, 1755. Ships Names. Royal George, Barfleur, St. George, Prince, Ramillies, Prince George, Torbay, Culloden, Monarch, Terrible, Captains. Roger Martin, Guns. 100 Lord Harry Poulet, 90 John Storr, ga Charles Saunders, Francis Holborn, 90 G. Bridges Rodney, go Charles Colby, 74 Henry Ward, 74 Buckingham, Michael Everit, 70 Yarmouth, Harry Norris, |