ON MY PILLOW.

HAIL, foft companion of my weary hours,
Joy of my health, and folace of
my woe!
While on thy downy breaft I raptur'd fink,
Where peace and fweet tranquillity refide,
A balmy foftnefs o'er my limbs diftills,
And Morpheus' hand winds up the fprings of life,
Which make man's frame with delicacy play.

No furly care, or folitary woe,
Shall dare approach, while thus by thee I'm cir-
But, like the grifly phantoms of the night [cled,
In the fun's prefence, vanish into air.

On thee reclin'd, I taste th' ambrofial feaft
Of mental pleafure---furfeit reigns not here---
Nor in my Chloe's charms---perhaps her blush
Shall borrow luftre from thy virgin white,
And like the rofe 'midft beds of lillies glow,
While as fome florift views his garden's pride,
In extafy of pleasure loft, I gaze,

Here oft the lore of many a diftant age I read, and converfe with the mighty dead; Or in the Mufes flowery paths I stray; Their fragrant odours all around me breathe, And fteep my ravish'd fenfes in delight.

All objects ftrike each mind---but fure the ma
Who bids the fculptur'd ftone to mimic life
Beneath his plaftic hand, or he whose skill
The pencil'd canvas animates, or he

Who bids strong fenfe in tuneful numbers flow,
Which with fweet magic charm th' attentive foul,
Claims not like merit with the man, who gives
Repofe and comfort to my weary hours,
And makes one half of life in pleasure pafs.

Oh could I trace the honour'd artist's name,
Whofe bright invention first thy form conceiv'd
And taught thy pleafing ufes to mankind,
In tuneful verfe I'd celebrate his fame,
Which, like the Pillow, fhould for ever laft.
On the Death of the late Dr. SECKER,
Archbishop of Canterbury.
"Monumentum are perennius."

Hor. Carm. Lib. ii. Od. 30.
WHILE Secker liv'd,he fhew'd how feers did lives
While Secker taught, heav'n open'd to our eyes
When Secker gave, we knew how angels give;
When Secker dy'd, we knew ev'n faints must
die.
PHILAGIOS.

Now that the moon beams forth her filver On the Death of Dr. HAYWARD, Warden of

fplendor,

[day,

And night's blear'd face makes beauteous as the
Fancy's keen eye becomes more bright and sharp,
I trace fome lover thro' the glimmering grove,
Or by the margent of fome purling stream,
Where every echo fighs his mistress' name;
Like fome ftruck deer, in vain his fkill he tries
To pluck the arrow from the bleeding wound.

Now Shakespear's wild notes warbling in my
Methinks I fee the dapper fairy king [ear,
With frolic elves dance on th' enamell'd mead.
Then rove thro'Spenfer's charming magic fcenes;
Or, quitting earth, Elyfium's plains I tread,
And view the bleft abodes of godlike men:
The dear delufion may I never lofe,
Nor ever, ever quit thy halcyon arms!

Thou yield'ft a lenitive to every pain:
But fome there are, alas! to virtue loft,
Loft to the relish of true happiness,
Who fcarcely tafte thy comforts---Pleasure flies,
And Horror conftant wakes about their bed;
The guest of Luxury, and Vice's minion,
Must pay in pain the price of joys dear-bought.
And tho' their limbs on beds of roses he,
Guilt, like a ferpent, ftings the conscious breaft.
Let other Poets other Artifts praife,
For not with like fenfation of delight

Το our

New College, Oxford.
Ibimus, ibimus,
Utcunque precedes.
Hor. Carm. ii. Od. 17.
SNATCH'D in a moment by the hands of fate,
Your heav'nly fpoufe, your mother dear in view,
Who can the anguifh of their fouls relate,
When they beheld each comfort loft in you?
The fons of Winchefter* their temples bind
With the dark cyprefs, and around your bier
Heave the warm figh, and, to your virtues kind,
From ftreaming eyes pour forth the friendly tear.
Thine was Elijab's life, his fate was thine,
He, in a whirlwind caught, afcends the skies;
Glories like his, in your departure fhine,
You ftole, like him, from earth, and from our
wond'ring cyes.
OXONIENSIS,
*William of Wickham bishop of Winchester, the
founder of New College.

E PI G R A M.

See the Copper-plate, named the UNION. OUR great man's pride, fure, cannot very big be. To ride behind so great a ***** as R****

Alluding to a phrafe used in the public offices, when one perfon is quartered upon another, for part of bis place. Public Ledger, June 2.

CORRESPONDENT S.

WE thank Tyro, for Chloe, an elegy: it is very picturesque and poetical; but there are fome fituations too affectingly defcribed, which may perhaps be deemed indelicate: we should be much obliged to bim for bis future favours.---Cruphio's letter is received, and fhall be inferted in our next it came too late for this number.---C. B.'s tranflation of the 9th ode of Horace, appears to be the work of a young pen: it is literal, but not elegant.---Pfalm 45, altered from Brady and Tate, we have received: a political parody on facred writings, we apprehend, would not be agreeable to our readers.---Verfes on Happiness, written by a Quaker, are fenfible, and display a good beart, but they are very deficient even in orthography, and therefore cannot have a place in our pamphlet.---The letter from E. Alderford fhall have a place in our next.---All the other favours we have received from our correfpondents, fhall have particular attention paid to them.

Foreign

Our great Man's Pride sure cannot very big be

To ride behind so great a

&he clothed me

THE PAY- MASTER

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(If we ride so fast M

Sack dove to me my LORD M and I'll ensure you for 7 Years

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Pub: Ledger, July 2.1768.

And these

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Pay Master.

Foreign and Domestic Intelligence,

MONDAY, AUGUST 1.

the ceremony the new-married couple fet out

ON Tuesday evening a young gentleman, for Wales, where the bride has an eftate.

well dreffed, went to the George inn at Fenftanfton, and, after refreshing himself, went to-bed, ordering the maid not to call him before feven: but the family getting up very foon in the morning, and the maid hearing a noife in the gentleman's apartment, had the curiofity to open the door; when, to her great aftonifhment, fhe faw him standing before the glass, with his throat cut in a dreadful manner, and a knife in his hand. Af fistance was immediately called, and a furgeon fent for, who fewed up his wounds, and he is now likely to recover. It has fince ap peared that he is writer to an attorney at St. Neot's, and that a love affair was the caufe of this rafh action.

Extract of a letter from Boston in Lincolnshire,
July 26.

"At the affizes here came on, before lord chief baron Parker, the important caufe wherein Robert Viner, jun, efq. was plaintiff; and Philip Bullen, Efq. alderman of that city, defendant; in order to prove bribery in the election of Thomas Scrope, Efq; the prefent member when a verdict was given for the defendant, to the great joy of Mr. Scrope's friends. Fifteen hogfheads of ale were given to the populace; and a ball was given by Mr. Scrope in the affembly-room below Hill in the evening.'

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Tuesday, 2. Friday laft a lady dreffed in a chintz gown, was dogged to different places by an informer, who foon after lodged his complaint with a magiftrate near Westminsterabbey; who fummoned the lady before him, and convicted her in the penalty according to the ftatute. We infert this as a caution to the wearers of fuch unlawful dresses, the faid informer having a lift of more than fifty upon the faid ftatute.

Reading, July 16. This morning was married, at St. Lawrence's church in this town, Mrs. Matthews, widow, in the 74th year of her age, to Mr. Allen, aged 23. What is very fingular, the bride has been three years confined in our gaol for debt, which she always declared fhe would not pay, as the thought herself ill ufed, till, fortunately for both, the bridegroom was likewife confined in the fame place for debt, which the generously paid, by which means the procured him his liberty, and then paid the debt for which she herself was confined. After

From the LONDON GAZETTE, Whitehall, Aug. 2. The king has been pleased to order letters patent to be paffed un der the great feal of the kingdom of Ireland, containing a grant unto the right hon. Edward viscount Kingston, and the heirs male of his body lawfully begotten, of the dignity of an earl of the faid kingdom, by the name, ftile, and title of earl of Kingston, in the county of Rofcommon.

The king has been pleased to order like letters patent, containing a grant unto the right hon. John Baron Mount Eagle, and the heirs male of his body lawfully begotten, of the dignity of a viscount of the faid kingdom, by the name, ftile, and title of viscount Westport, in the county of Mayo.

The king has been pleased to order like let ters patent, containing a grant unto the right hon. Ralph baron Gore, and the heirs male of his body lawfully begotten, of the dignity of a viscount of the faid kingdom, by the name, ftile and title of viscount Belleisle, of Belleifle in the county of Fermanagh.

Wednesday, 3. The hon. col. Craig, and major Deaken, are appointed to attend his royal highness the duke of Cumberland on his intended tour; and on Monday evening four of his domeftics fet out for Portsmouth, to make preparations for his reception.

Yesterday morning a violent storm happened; when a coachman belonging to Mr. Parfons, livery-stable-keeper at Greenwich, was ftruck dead by the lightening in Kentftreet road; whereby his head was cleft open, and his body fo tore that his bowels came out; and, with the intense heat, his watch was melted in his pocket. Neither the carriage or horses were in the leaft damaged..

Yesterday at noon, during the ftorm, the lightening fell upon a house in Old-Bedlamcourt, near Broad-freet, and, forcing its way in at the two-pair-of-ftairs window, paffed from thence down into the one-pair-of-ftairs, and from thence continued its courfe into the court, where it buried itself in the earth. Befides fhattering every thing in its paffage, it fet fire to the houfe, which could not be extinguished without the help of engines.

Thursday, 4. The 27th ult. died, at Dum fries-houfe in Scotland, the right hon. the earl of Dumfries and Stair. By his lordship's death thefe peerages are feparated; that of Dumfries,

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