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1755.

POETICAL ESSAYS.

And to each ifle, and continent become,
Aftoundment strange, and fudden huge
difmay,
[tribes
Sunk are the ftru&tures where the cowled
Batten'din flothful eafe;and thofe,immur'd
Where cloifter'd veftals, ufelefs, and unfeen,
Dragg'd on their days; thofe likewife,

are no more,

Where inquifitions rul'd with iron rods,
Fell, and remorseless, yet thefe judges ftern
Who doom'd to fire, themfelves are loft in
flames.
[whelm'd,

What manfions, and what families o'er-
Scarcely the regal fcap'd! By falling arch,
Crush'd in his flight, th' Iberian legate dy'd.
Let Britain's realm, and her Augufta
[the priests

grand With humble forrowing mourn †, and let Between the porches and the altars weep, Turning with fafts, and penitence fincere, To heaven and earth's Supreme; who stays from us

Thefe vifitations, elfewhere fadly felt.

Still flow to vengeance is Jehovah's arm, Mild, and long-fuff'ring tow'rds poor finful duft,

Him juftice moves, but mercy moft delights. Now!-now reflect, Onatal foil! for whom My bofom glows with tender filial love; Thou,-whofe foundation-rocks and towers are lav'd

By Deva's lately-agitated flood; Had not forbearing clemency divine Then interpos'd, thy domes might straight have fail'n [been abforb'd Wreck'd with tremendous fhocks, and Deep in the yawning gulph, whose closing [abyfs. jaws, Would foon have feal'd them in the vaft Yet,-fpare us heav'n! and turn away [may thy wrath, Juftly deferv'd; and grant that, touch'd, we With contrite hearts, regard thefe judgments dire.

TRUST in GOD: A Lyric Ode. In Imitation of the ancient Saphic Ode.

-Non, fi male nunc, et olim

Sic erit.

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HE, who, with Arong faith, places his

On the kind parent of a whole creation, Must be compos'd, and, when he meets a danger,

Firm as a mountain. For the fupreme and univerfal agent Will the best means chufe for a fafe protection; [to doubt his Nor, tho' diftrefs comes, have we caufe Pow'r t'relieve us. Pain, care and toil fall as a lot to mortals; But refignation qualifies the trial; Hope the draught fweetens, be it e'er fo bitter,

And to go down hard. • Rev. Cb. z. V, 17.

625

What tho' good men fhould for a while be [holds them,

paffive?

Peace within cheers, and Providence up-
Till the ftorm ceafes, when a light begins to
Shoot thro' the darkness.
Grant, that in this life merit is neglected,
And a good man feels what a bad de-
ferveth;
[all, that
Yet may our next state make amends for
Here is unequal.

Then let us truft ftill to the great preferver,
Him, that all nature has at his difcretion,
And, when our troubles are the worst of
all, can

Ev'n to the laft fave.
SAPPHADON.

The ENQUIRY.

HAT is my crime? O God! why

WHA

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all the day, [way? Doft thou retard my steps and hedge my Why all the night, when balmy fleep [oppofe?

wou'd clofe

These wakeful eyes, doft thou their reft
Healthy, Lon a rolling pillow lie!
Change fides, but still relief and rest will fly;
Thy (courging hand lies heavy on my heart,
Which throbs, and throbs, with an incef-
fant imart.

The foul unconscious can herself furvey,
Then why thy hoft plac'd in this dread
[thine,
array ?
I ne'er blafphem'd that awful name of
Nor facrific'd to any scheme of mine :
Frailties and flips I own, alas! too many,
But of th' unpardonable kind,-not any:
Oh! then recal thy fhafts, thywrath fufpend,
Will the omnific, with a speck contend?
Which like an atom in the folar beam,
Is tofs'd by jarring winds to each extreme,
Nor quietude obtains, till downward,
[blown.

prone,

It centers in the womb, from whence 'twas But if affliction moderates the mind, Purges our drofs, and makes the man re

fign'd,

If 'tis the lot of all the sons of God, I acquiefce, and humbly kifs the rod. ... HERACLITUS.

An ENIGMA.

Garden or a fruitful field

A To me no nourishment can yield.

Yet, give me but a proper foil,
I thrive with little care or toil.
A moist and dirty foil is good;
For excrement's my proper food.
But, what you'll fay is pretty strange,
Oft, while I grow, my place I change,
And in all feafons and all weathers
My body, ftrength and vigour gathers;
Till, when my fize and fhape's compleat,
For ufe and fervice I am mete.

I help fometimes to drefs my master; And fometimes mix and make up plaifter. Saddles 4 K 2

↑ Joel, Ch. 2. V. 15, 17.

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POETICAL

Saddles nor shoes without my aid
Could neither be well kept nor made.
Of house and goods I take due care,
And finest flipflops I prepare.
I now and then a fishing go,
Or to a hair an object show.
At other times I kill a dog,

Or down your throat I flip incog.
In short I furnish hats and rings,
And twenty other diff'rent things.
To find my name you need not strain,
For in thefe lines you read it plain.
SIMON SLY.
ASONG. Inspired by a Gallon of Claret.

ALK not of Pieria's fountain,
Phoebus, or the tuneful nine;
Hang the Heliconian fountain,

Give me rivers running wine. Fill the bowl; O, fill it higher, And the noblest vessel pierce ; Bacchus only can inspire; Bacchus is the god of verse.

EPIGRA M..

IR Roger was ill, his cafe was quite bad,

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Lord Madam, fays John, the doctor call in,
Tisa hame not to do it, to neglect it's a fin:
The doctor was call'd, he determin'd his
cafe,
[fat in his face :
Felt his pulfe, and then fwore, that death
There's nought to be done'; with bills I'm
not fwell
[did well.
His account; fo departed-The patient

Juftice to the ingenious Author of the EPY-
LOGUE, in our Mag. of December, p.592,
we infert the following Correction and addi-
tional Lines, winch be has favoured us with.
Line 9. W is a peopling age.
ELL heav'n be prais'd, it

Thanks to the bar, the pulpit and the stage; But not to th' army-that's not worth a farthing,

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ADDITIONS to December. Norwich. FROM the 25th of Decemher, 1754, to the 25th of December, 1755, were born, males 574, females

1755. The MONTHLY CHRONOLOGER. 627

females 567. In all 1141. Decreased in the births 16.

Buried, males 656, females 685. In all 1381. increafed in the burials 41.

Glowfon, near the river Wye, in the county of Hereford, Dec. 23. Laft Thurfday night, about nine o'clock, we were alarmed by a terrible fhock of an earthquake, attended with a great rumbling noife; and our fright was fuch, that we thought the world was at an end. About a quarter of a mile from hence, it funk an acre and a half of land into the river Wye, fwallowing up all the trees and every thing that grew thereon,

At Antigua, they had, on November 1, a fmall fhock of an earthquake, as alfo at Barbadoes, at both which places the fea ebb'd and flow'd in a furprising manner. At Bofton, in New-England, they had a flock of near two minutes continuance, which did fome damage to the buildings, but no lives were loft.

Bofton, O. 8. By letters from the camp before Fort Cumberland, in NovaScotia, of the Sch paft, we have advice, that on the 28th of Auguft, major Fry, with feveral officers and 200 men, embarked on board the floop York, capt. Cobb, and the fchooner Warren, capt. Adams, and the fame evening landed at Chippondie, a village eight leagues up the river, having inftructions to bring off all the inhabitants, and fet fire to the houfes. Upon their first landing they marched with an advance and two flank guards to the village, but found all the inhabitants were fled, except twenty-five women and children, who were taken prifoners. The next morning they fet fire to the buildings, and burnt down 181 houses and barns, with all the hay, grain, &c. therein. After this they proceeded to the mafs-houfe, which, with what was therein, was burnt to ashes. Then putting the prifoners on board one of the tranfports, they embarked again. The next morning two of the officers, with fixtytwo men, were ordered to Pircondiack and having landed within fight of the armed veffels, they found the houfessentirely evacuated; and by the first of September they laid the buildings in afhes for fifteen miles in length on the northerly fide of the river, and about fix on the other fide; and when they came in fight ef a mafs-houfe, they difcovered foottracks lately made, and foon after perceived a fmoak. The mafs-houfe being clofe to a thick wood, they posted proper guards, and as they were preparing to fire the house, a fignal-gun was fired by the enemy, and before the guards, and the few men with them, could repair to the main body, they found themselves al

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moft furrounded by them upon which they were obliged to ruth through them as well as they could, firing their pieces, and receiving their fire: And, while thus retreating, the Indians gained ground, fhot lieutenant March, and took and wounded fome others; but a ferjeant with fix men coming from a copfe cf wood, topt their purluit, fo that the rest of our men gained the dyke, and fecured their retreat.

All this time it was impoffible for major Fry to come to their allistance, on account of the rapidity of the river, being driven by the current three quarters of a mile below the intended landing-place; but landing the rest of his men as foon as he poffibly could, he drew up the whole body, and made a stand: Upon this the enemy likewise drew up in a body, befides the dykes being lined with Indians, and parties (fuppofed to be upwards of 300) fcouting in the woods; but they were not inclined to engage our forces in an open manner, tho' with fuch a num ber they might have done almost as they pleafed. At high water the two armed veffels got in as near the fhores as they fafely could, and covering each of the flanks, fent their boats to take our men on board; the veffels, during the embar kation, firing their cannon, and keeping the rebels off. Several of the enemy were killed, but how many is uncertain; 253 houses and barns, befides the mafshoufe, have been burnt.

Philadelphia, Oct. 9. By a veffel from North Carolina we have advice, that the Cherokee tribe of Indians, encouraged by a large bounty for every scalp of the enemy, granted by the province of South Carolina, had, to the number of 1600, engaged to march against the French, and the Indians in their interest, on the Ohio; and that, as a farther encouragement towards the expedition, the government of North Carolina had made a prefent to them of 300 Ateers.

MARRIAGES and BIRTHS.

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EV. Mr. Carrington was presented to the vicarages of Sporle and Little Palgrave, in Norfolk, by Eton-college.

PROMOTIONS Civil and Military.

HITEHALL, Dec. 27.

The

Wiking has been pleafed to appoint

the following gentlemen to be colonels of the regiments of foot to be forthwith raifed in his majesty's fervice, James Abercrombie, Robert Napier, Hedworth Lambton, William Whitmore, John Campbell, Cha. Perry, Efq; lord Charles Manners, John Arabin, Robert Anftruther, Charles Montagu, Efqrs.-Bennet Noel, Efq; to be licut, col. to the fecond reg. of footguards, and to take rank as colonel of foot. Julius Cæfar, Efq; first major, and to take rank as colonel of foot.-William Alcourt, Efq; fecond major, and to take rank as colonel of foot.-John Lowrie, Efq; first major to the third regiment of foot-guards, and to take rank as colonel of foot.-And Andrew Robinson, Efq; fecond major, and to take rank as colonel of foot.

The king has been pleased, upon a furrender made by John Cowper, D. D. of the office of the execution of the laws and ftatutes concerning bankrupts, to grant the faid office unto the faid Dr. John Cowper, and John Yorke, of Lincoln'sInn, Efq;

The king has been pleased, upon a furrender made by John Yorke, of Lincoln'sInn, Efq; of the office of chafewax in chancery, to grant the faid office to Ashley Cowper, Efq;

The king has been pleased to grant to the earl of Sandwich, the earl of Cholmondeley, and Wellbore Ellis, Efq; the office of vice-treasurer of Ireland.

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The king has been pleafed to appoint Edward Lloyd, Efq; to be fecretary to his majesty's forces in North-Britain, in the room of Thomas Sherwin, Efq;

War-Office, Dec. 24. Lord viscount Barrington, fecretary at war, has appointed Thomas Sherwin, Efq; first clerk in the war-office, to be his deputy, in the room of Edward Lloyd, Efq; who has refigned.

The king has been pleafed to promote the following gentlemen to be lieutenantcolonels and majors to the new regiments, viz. lieutenant-colonels. Majors, John Mompeffon, Thomas Buck, Alex. Mackay, George Crawford, Mark Renton, John Donaldson, Peter Parr, Thomas Wilkinson, Byam Crump, and William Auguftus Pitt.-Majors. Capts. Desbrisay, Furye, Hugh Morgan, William Arnott, Wilkinfon, Proby, Doyne, Townsend, Feyrac, and How.

Alteration in the Lift of Parliament.
TORWICH, Lord Hobart re-elect-

Ned on preferment.

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