Quis dedit ad lucem fuperafq; educcre ad auras
Quos perjura fides, & dextera jun&ta fefellit,
Aut fratrem ambitio tenues detrufit ad umbras.
Quis tibi, Theffalicas artes, & facra triformis
Explicuit, per quæ folet illa fepulchris
Extre internos manes, & car nine facro
Fingere corporibus fimulachra fimillima veris,
Que mox folvuntur tenues, ceu fumus in auras;
Non fecus humani pereunt monumenta laboris,
Non fecus herorum vultus fimulantia, quæque
Vel pofuit vel ponet amor tibi publicus era;
Sed quando celerum longo ordine victa dierum
Ingenii monumenta tui, Shakespeare peribunt,
Vanefcent cœlum, tangentes vertice turres,
Regalefq; aulæ, & folennia templa deorum
Terrigenæq; homines, & magni fabrica mundi.
October 11, 1768.

OXONIENSIS.

For the OXFORD MAGAZINE.

Answer to the Epistle in your laft (fee p. 114.) from Mr. Ralph Singleton, to Mr. Giles Ofman, of Christ Church, Oxford.

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G. O. to R. S.

OES Singleton his fault acknowledge? Prefto, fpeed letter quick from college; Convey his pardon, uti norma, Sign'd, feal'd, the fees difcharg'd pro formâ.

Abfence, dear friend, has not fupprefs'd The flame that glow'd within my breast, Firft lighted up by friendship's hand, And by the foftering kindnefs fann'd, There let it blaze, till all confefs Friendship one fource of happiness, Till death, at once my vital fpark, And that extinguish'd, trims my bark To plow thy wide-extended fea, Dreadful, yet pleafing thought, eternity! When you, my Ralph, the Mufe's fon, (Your own hypothefis 1 follow) Your temporary bufinefs done,

For fook this manfion of Apollo.
Tedious roll'd on fucceeding days
In liftless contemplative ease.
Ah! Contemplation, parent fage,
Of charms that hit the tale of age:
While blood flows active in the veins,
Thy placid joys are galling chains,
Which the young frolick pupil fpurns,
And to his dear delights returns,
Drinks, wenches, flights each facred trust,
And drops by piece-meal into duft.

Thofe Bacchanalian orgies you
Deteft, and the performers too.
Can reafon, wont fo bright to fhine,
Exalted reafon, ray divine,
Criterion of the human kind,
For nobleft purposes defign'd,
Debas'd bow down at Folly's nod,
And worship her infernal god?
True mirth no joys in riot fees,
No charms has revelry to pleafe,

Yet (blush, ye fools, to find it fame!)
These are the joys Oxonians claim.

Virtue the fcented wreath has twin'd
For fober fenfe with fancy jein'd,
And to increase my triend's renown,
Weaves in the myrile with the laurel crown,
Oft as beneath the grateful fhade,
(For meditation aptly made)
Of Academus' filent grove,
Mufing I folitary rove,

Paft fcenes of pleasure crowd to view,
Enjoy'd in partnership with you.
To what did fond ambition tend,
But to call Singleton my friend?
Eager I fought th' approving fmile
To cheat away the claffic toil.
What honest raptures would it raise,
More than e'en Markham's well-carn'd praise
I biefs'd the influencing fkies,
And Westminster was paradife.
"Is panegyric this, or fatire?"
Curs ftill will bark, and coxcombs chatter;
'Tis what an honeft heart may fee,
The language of fimplicity;
And, Mr. Critic, pray, in youth,
What is fimplicity but truth?

Poor Packer, reft his foul in peace,
Has got from earthly cares releafe.
Dear fav'rite of the fons of mirth,
Which draws from innocence its birth,
Whofe fterling humour, envied store,
Could fet the table in a roar;

Smooth onwards did the minutes roll
When thou gav'ft rapture to the bowl!
Ah! hapless youth, to fall thus foon,
Why did thy morning's fun go down at noon?
Life to my Singleton, and health,

A competency too of wealth

I wish, and that his friendship long
May be the burden of my fong.

Heav'n, honeft Ralph, preferve thee mine,
Truly as is Giles Ofman thine!
Cb. Ch. Oxford.

AUTUMN. AN ODE.

ALAS! with fwift and filent pace,

Impatient Time rolls on the year;
The feafons change, and Nature's face
Now fweetly fmiles, now frowns fevere,
'Twas Spring, 'twas Summer, all was gay,

Now Autumn bends a cloudy brow,
The flowers of fpring are fwept away,

And fummer's fruits defert the bough.
The verdant leaves that play'd on high,
And wanton'd in the weftern breeze,
Now trod in duft neglected lie,

As Breas ftrips the bending trees,
The fields that wav'd with golden grain,
As ruffet heaths are wild and bare,
Not moift with dew, but drench'd in rain,

Nor health, nor pleafure, wanders there,

POETICAL

No more, while thro' the midnight fhade,
Beneath the moon's pale orb I ftray,
Soft pleafing woes my heart invade,
As Progne pours the melting lay.
From this capricious clime the foars,

O! would fome God but wings fupply!
To where each morn the spring restores,
Companion of her flight, I'd fly:

Vain with me fate compells to bear
The downward feason's iron reign,
Compells to breathe polluted air,

And fhiver on a blafted plain.
What blifs to life can Autumn yield,

If glooms, and fhow'rs, and forms prevail, And Ceres ties the naked field,

And flow'rs, and fruits, and Phoebus fail? Oh! what remains, what lingers yet,

To cheer me in the darkening hour? The grape remains! the friend of wit, In love and mirth of mighty power. Hafte, prefs the clufters, fill the bowl

Apollo! fhoot thy parting ray;
This gives the funfhine of the foul,

This God of health, and verfe, and day.
Still, ftill the jocund strain shall flow,
The pulfe with vigorous rapture beat;
My Stella with new charms fhall glow,
And every blifs in wine fhall meet.

To the agreeable Mifs N--k. EACH love-ftruck bard, in fweetly flowing strain,

Describes the fair one that creates his pain; Not the gay blush of morn fuch charms can fhow

As thofe which in his mistress' features glow,
The lightning's flash, that blazes thro' the sky,
Is a faint image of her keener eye :
Each fancied charm adorns the fav'rite maid,
Her frowns can kill, her fmiles revive the dead.
But they, whofe chief protection is a face,
In beauty's lift hold but the second place;
Like fome skill'd painter's faireft proof of art,
They frike the eye, but not engage the heart.
The charming face, fine fhape, and piercing
eyes,

Sickness or accident, or age deftroys.

But the the fairest is, in whom we find The fweeter graces of a pleafing mind; Thefe form the bafis of a lafting love, They charm in youth, and will with age improve,

An even temper, and a heart that knows To fhare our joys, and fuffer in our woes; A fprightly wit, that all the world muft pleafe, A gen'rous franknefs, and a graceful eafe. Such charms as thofe the wifeft breaft fubdue, Such charms, my fair, are center'd all in you,

TYR 9,

Tray,

Weep the defunct-each dog must have his day. Van-Trump, thy rifing hope," bone of thy bone,

Flesh of thy fiefh," deep groans Ob bone! 0% bone!

But fate configns thee to the realms of Dis, Where Tityus howls, and madd'ning furies hifs; There chain'd with Cerberus, whofe triple rage No force can tame, nor mollient arts afluage, Th' infernal courts you pierce, with bowgh, wough, wowgh,

His Stygian majefty's grim porter now.
Yet think not, honour'd fhade, the mufe fo
rash is,

To mock thy memory, and rake thine ashes,
For Fame records, (and Fame not always fings
Unhallow'd fibs, at beft evasive things)
Ixion-like, a turn-fpit oft you feel
The giddy motion of the rolling wheel.

Peace to thy manes! If a latrant ghoft
Haply you range the bleft Elyfian coaft,
Where thy freed spectre, purified from clay,
Bafks in the funfhine of eternal day,
For fpirits from the body's prifon free,
Wave their light wings, and breathe fweet
Liberty.

Fain would Melpomene lugubrious carol
Thy teeth like ivory, when you deign'd to fnarl,
The velvet of thy paws, and ftately strut,
Thy filken coat, and tail umbrageous*, but
Thy fame to quave, iil my numbers tally-
Peace to thy manes -Vale, vale, vale.
Worcester. Written in April 1768.

- S.

From the BOSTON GAZETTE. Philadelphia, August 8. The inftructions to the reprefentatives of the city of Philadelphia, having been generally figned by the freemen of the faid city and county, were delivered on Saturday laft to Jofeph Galloway, and James Pemberton, efqrs. to be by them communicated to their brethren, and are as follow:

PHILADELPHIA, July 30, 1768. To the Representatives of the Freemen of the city and county of Philadelphia.

GENTLEMEN,

:

WE obferve that duties for the fole and exprefs purpofe of raifing a revenue, have been lately impofed by acts of parliament, upon feveral articles of commerce, imported into these colonies. This we confider as an infringement of our natural and conftitutional rights it is a taxation of us by perfons who do not and cannot reprefent us. Such a taxation, therefore, takes away our money without our confent; and if the parliament can do this legally and of right, it must follow of undeniable confequence, that we have no property, and that all we poffefs belongs to others, whofe fovereign pleafure must determine how long we fhall be indulged in the use of thofe things, which our own labours, and our own cares, have acquired and faved.

A doctrine fo deftructive of property, liberty, and happiness, we cannot but deem in the utmoft degree unreasonable and unconftitutional, and being afferted by fo auguft a body as the British parliament, it ftrikes with furprize, affliction, and apprehenfion, all which are greatly increased by the violence of other measures.

Not long fince we beheld a fifter colony deprived of her legiflative power, for no other offence than for daring to exercife her judgment on a point confefledly within her own jurifdiction; and for refusing to put herself to

a confiderable expence, in obedience to an act of parliament: a treatment severe to the immediate objects of it; dangerous and alarming to others; but this we perceive is not to be the utmost extent of American fervitude.

The house of reprefentatives in the province of Maflachufetts-Bay, roufed by the common danger, candidly and wifely communicated their fentiments and proceedings to the other affemblies on this continent; it being ne

ceffary that all poffible care fhould be taken that the reprefentations of the feveral aflemblies, upon fo delicate a point, fhould harmonize with each other." This behaviour of that truly refpectable houfe, fo prudent with regard to themfelves, fo affectionate with regard to other colonies, and fo loyal with regard to our gracious fovereign, is represented in minifterial language, as a "Measure of most factious tendency, and a flagitious at tempt to disturb the public peace." Nor have thefe reproaches fatisfied the resentment of the adminiftration. The house of representatives has been required "to refcind the refolution that gave birth to the circular letter;" and because they have magnanimously refused to betray the liberties of these colonies, they have been diffolved in an infulting manner, Befides this, the affembly of Maryland has been prorogued by their governor in obedience. to a ministerial order, because they could not be prevailed on to "refent and treat with contempt the latter from the fpeaker of the house of reprefentatives of the Maffachusetts-Bay,"

These measures excite in our minds the ftrongeft fenfe of public danger. On the one hand, we hear claims fet up deftructive to our rights; on the other, threatenings uttered if we offer to oppose thofe claims. But as no minifterial rhetoric can perfuade us, that a denial of the authority of parliament, in cafes pernicious to liberty, is to "fubvert the principles of the conftitution," or that to be deeply

fenfible

we

fenfible of oppreffion, humbly to complain of them, and peaceably (tho' jointly) to feek redrefs of them, is a factious and flagitious attempt to disturb the public peace;" therefore do, in the most earnest manner, call upon you to exert yourfelves at the next meeting of affembly, for procuring a redress of our prefent grievances, and for promoting a cordial union in fentiments and meafures with the other colonies, on which union alone the happiness of the whole undoubtedly depends.

We recommend it to you to exert yourselves as the house meets, that a petition to his majefty, a memorial to the house of lords, and a remonftrance to the house of commons, be immediately drawn up and tranfmitted home. Too much dispatch cannot be used at this important crifis, as we are fully perfuaded that nothing is fo likely to overwhelm the colonies with calamities as an appearance of difunion among them. In those addrefies, we defire you to exprefs, with all poffible force of language, our loyalty to his majesty, our firm attachment to the British conftitution, and affection to the people of the parent country: that we value and revere the connection between her and us above every thing but religion and liberty, that we know it is the band of peace and profperity, that, influenced by these fentiments, we ever have been, are, and always fhall be, ready and willing, upon every just occafion, to demonftrate our loyalty and duty by every method in our power.-But, with equal zeal and firmnefs, are immoveably refolved to affert and maintain the ineflimable rights and liberties given us by GOD, and confirmed to us by the conftitution.

BOSTON, AUGUST 22. To the honourable THOMAS CUSHING, Efq; fpeaker of the honourable house of reprefentatives of the province of MaffachusettsBay.

Charles-Torun, South-Carolina, July 10.

S 1 R,

Your letter directed to the fpeaker of the honourable house of representatives of the province of South-Carolina, dated the 11th of February laft, is juft now come to my hands.

The commons houfe of aflembly of this province, ever attentive to the right and privileges of themselves, and their conftituents in particular, and the liberties of America in general, before their laft adjournment, "Ordered, the committee of correfpondence to write to the agent in Great-Britain, and inftruct him to join with the agents of the other provinces in America, in obtaining a repeal of the feveral acts of parliament, which have lately been paffed for laying duties in America, and to endeavour to prevent the claufe for billeting foldiers in America from being inferred in the next mutiny act which fhall be pafled:

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In confequence of this order, I have the pleasure to acquaint you, that the committee of correfpondence have, by letter of the 15th of April laft, given ample inftructions to Mr. Gath the agent, on these important points.

The house adjourned on the 12th of April laft, and have been fince prorogued; and as the time of their existence by law will expire on the 18th of September next, I think that they will not meet again; but that they will be fpeedily diffolved, and writs be immediately iflued for the election of a new affembly; for which reafon, I am afraid, I fhall not have an opportunity of laying your letter before the prefent houfe: but this, I hope, will not be attended with any inconvenience, as the steps are already taken, which you have fo fully and warmly recommended.

Perfuaded, that notwithstanding the invidious light in which his majesty's faithful colonies have been mifreprefented to their mother country, the time will foon come when they will have a fair and candid hearing, the confequence of which must be a relief from all their grievances.

I am, with great respect, Sir,

Your obliged and obedient fervant, P. MANIGAULT, Speaker of the commons boufe of affembly of the province of South-Carolina. Bofton, Aug. 4. Yesterday his excellency governor Bernard iflued the following proclamation:

"Whereas the peace and good order of the province hath been of late greatly interrupted by the riots and tumults which have taken place in divers towns within the same:

"I do, by and with the advice of his majefty's council, iffue this proclamation, hereby ftrictly enjoining all magiftrates, sheriffs, and their deputies, and all civil officers whatsoever, in their several diftricts and departments, with in the faid province refpectively, to do their utmost for preferving the public peace, and for the protection of all his majesty's subjects whatever. And that to this end and purpose, they take effectual care, fo far as to them refpectively appertains, to put in execution the laws for preventing, fuppreffing, and punishing all riots, tumults, and unlawful aflemblies.

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"And I do hereby likewife call upon his majesty's good fubjects, within the province, to exert themselves in promoting peace and good order, in reftoring vigour and firmneis to the government, and in fupporting the civil officers in the due execution of the laws. "Given in the council-chamber in Boston, &c. "FRA. BERNARD."

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