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IDY L.-Tranflated from Leonard.

THEN the Harbinger of day

WH

Spread her brilliant golden ray,

I faw. Venus, in my dream,
Leading Cupid, who did feem,
With a childish ftep, to move
Near the beauteous Queen of Love.
"Happy fwain, said the to me,
"My dear fon I bring to thee:
"Teach him well thy facred art;
"With thy lines infpire his heart."
Sweetly fmil'd the heav'nly Fair,
And then vanifh'd in the air.
First I fang thofe hymns divine,
Oft rehears'd by all the Nine;
Then I fhew'd with what a fire
Godlike Phœbus ftrikes the lyre;
To encrease my papii's pleasure,

Oft I chang'd my theme and measure,
Idyls, elegies prolong

The melodious plaintive fong; And my hand, enchanted, plays All th' Aonian facred lays. "Trifling are the strains, fays he, "I fo long have heard from thee; "All thofe themes, thou call'ft divine, "Cannot be compar'd to mine;

Leave thy learning, quit thy ftrings, "And I'll teach thee other things." Then his argument to prove, He inftructs me how to love: From his lips of crimson rose, Charming mufic fweetly flows. Ah ye Gods how well my heart Sciz'd the fecrets of his art! If in time fhould die away What I learn'd before that day, At your rich and facred shrine, Pray forgive, ye learned Nine; But gay Cupid's tender ftrain, All my life fhall I retain.

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Prefent of a Knife.

For any tool, of any kind,

Can fep'rate what was never join'd.
The knife that cats our love in two
Will have much tougher work to do?
Muft cut your foftnets, worth and spirit,
Down to the vulgar fize of merit ;
To level yours with modern taste,
Muft cut a world of fenfe to wafte,
And from your fingle beauty's store,
Clip what would dizen out à fcore.

The fif-fame blade from me must fever,
Senfation, judgment, fight, for ever;
All mem'ry of endearments paft,
All hope of comforts long to laft,
All that makes fourteen years with you
A fummer, and a short one too;
All that affection feels and fears,
When hours, without you, feem like years.
Till that be done, and I'd as foon
Believe this knife will chip the moon,
Accept my prefent undeterr'd,
And leave their proverbs to the herd.
If in a kifs, delicious treat!
Your lips acknowledge the receipt,
Love, fond of such fubftantial fare,
And proud to play the glutton there,
All thoughts of cutting will disdain,
Save only cut and come again.

Truth's Anfaver to a Man's Inquiry.
INQUIRE for happiness of me!
The point, I own, is nice;

No lawyer 1, fo keep your fee,
Yet fake my beft advice.

At mammon, why thofe glances thrown?
Is happiness with him?
Harklet that pity-piercing groan,
Confute fo vain a whim.

Afk Honour; you perceive her hold
A crown; the tempter fcorn;
That crown, though all of folid gold,
Within it has a thorn.

Try Pleafure; lo! stark staring mad,
She runs, fhe's out of breath;
She laughs, yet is at heart fo fad
She's in the gafp of death.

To Cupid fhall we next apply?

Lo! blood has ftain'd his darts! Truft one that is not prone to lic; His trade is wounding hearts.

See Virtue! friend, you look too far! She's near enough to kifs;

A Mere modif love, perhaps it may

Knife, dear girl, cuts love, they fay; Her hand from heav'n plucks down a fury

And 'tis the star of blifs.

THE

Monthly Register

For FEBRUARY 1788.

GERMANY.

Tordonnance refpecting the fmall HE Emperor has put forth a new

pox, forbidding inoculation to be performed at a lefs diftance than 400 toifes from any town, under the penalty of 1000 florins, both on the inoculator and the patient.

Copy of a letter delivered by Monfieur de Cachet, Charge d'Affaires from the Emperor at the Court of Poland, prefented and read to the Permanent Council at Varrovie, the 16th of January 1788. "As the present ftate of affairs may poffibly render neceffary, in a fhort time, a paffage to the troops of his Imperial Majefty through the territory of the Re public of Poland, in order to open a communication with thofe of the Em

prefs of Ruffia, which are in the neigh bourhood, the underfigned has received orders from his Court to acquaint his Majefty, the King of Poland, and his Council, informing them, at the fame time, that his Royal and Imperial mafter, confiding in the friendship and harmony which reigns between the two states, has no doubt but his Majefty and his Perma nent Council will confent to the paffage demanded, especially when they are informed that no violence nor infult will be offered to the inhabitants; that they will receive no injury whatever; and that whatever they may furnish to the Imperial troops, will be paid for in ready

money.

"The underfigned has the honour to requeft the Grand Chancellor, as Prefident of the Department for Foreign Affairs, to communicate this requifition to the Council Permanent without delay, and to require an immediate answer. (Signed,) "DE CACHET." Farrovie, Jan. 12, 1788.

Anfaver to the above. "That the King had not the power to confent to the paffage demanded for the Imperial troops; that it was a queftion on which the Diet alone could detide:-And as to the conclufion of the note of Mon de Cachet, he was informed, that Poland could furnish neither corn APPENDIX to Vol. VII.

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IRLELAN D. Dublin, Jan. 26. No debate of the fmalleft confequence has taken place fince the meeting of Parliament.

By the national accounts of the receipts in the Exchequer for the year ending Lady-day 1787, as delivered in last week to the Houfe of Commons, we find that the fums paid in under the head of Ordinary Revenue, including quit-rents, cafualties, and monies received from difmiffed Collectors, amounted in the whole L. 880,600 32,132 14,101

to

Stamps
Poftage

And under the head of Appropriated
Funds.

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152,274
29586
1,713

6,500
617

97,366
534

5,000

The charge for the year ending Lady-day 1787, is

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Since the late proclamation, the Nobility have been remarkably attentive to the due obfervance of Sunday as a day of reft; contenting themfelves merely to hear concerts, rehearsals of private plays, &c. The proportionable influence on their fervants cannot but be ftriking-as a contrast to the operation of Sunday. Schools.

Jan. 30. This day the House of P. met pursuant to their laft adjournment. The Houfe of Commons meet on the 31ft.

The demeanor of Lord George Gordon when he appeared to receive his fentence at the Court of King's Bench, was 197,727 fo different from that which he was 501,289 wont to obferve, as to interest every one 133,450 in his miferable fituation.

273,745

630,471
553,331
49,983
44,336

Which, on a grofs calculation, may convey to our readers an idea of national revenue and expenditure.

By the national accounts that have been laid before Parliament, it appears, that the debt of the nation, on March 25th laft, amounted to 2,179,235l. 18. 24d.

ENGLAND.

The only check on their compaffion was the ridiculous figure which his long beard exhibited; the appearance of which proved, that though he had chang ed, he had not abandoned the principles of religious enthufiafm, which have prov ed fo prejudicial to himself, as well as to his country.

On the morning Lord George Gordon was fummoned to attend the Court of King's Bench to receive judgment, Mr Akerman took him to Alice's Coffeehoufe, where he continued in the coffeeroom for upwards of an hour, walking backwards and forwards; and when he thought the time might be drawing nigh, for his being called into Court, he with the greatest compofure took a comb from out of his pocket, and walking up to one of the looking-glaffes, firft adjusted his 245,000 hair, and afterwards combed his beard, 94,600 and put it in fmooth and proper trim, to 959,450 appear before the awful tribunal whe 437,600 were to pass judgment upon him for his offences.

The following is an exact flatement of the stock purchafed by Government, with the money given for the fame.

Sums given. Quant. bought. Old South Sea, L. 216,050 L. 383,000 New South Sea, 138,600

1755, Confol. Reduced,

59,000 802,450 240,800 1,456,900 2,119,650 This account has been laid before the House of Commons

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It was intimated to Lord George Gor don by the Duchefs of Gordon, a short time before the judgment of the Court was paffed on him, that provided he

would

would leave England, the profecution fhould be waved. This propofition was, however, rejected by his Lordship, who avowed himself ready to abide by the decifions of the Court.

The Court of Directors of the EaftIndia Company have agreed to permit Sir John Macpherson, Bart. to return to his rank as fecond in the Supreme Countil of Bengal: he is to be allowed the fum of 30,000 rupees on his arrival at Calcutta.

H. of C. Feb. 5. Mr Alderman Watfon moved, "That the order of the day be read for the House refolving itself into a Committe of the whole House to confider. the petition of the Corn-Diftillers of Eng. land."

The Houfe being accordingly refolved into a Committee, Mr Rofe in the chair, and Counfel being called to the bar, in fupport of the Scotch Diftillers against the petition,

Mr Alderman Watfon rofe and shortly fated to the Houfe, that, by mifreprefentation, the Scotch diftillers had obtained an act for taking the duties on Scotch fpirits by a licenfe of 11. 10s. per gallon on their ftills, inftead of taking the duty on the fpirit per gallon. It had been reprefented by the Scotch diftillers, that fuch a licenfe would be equal to the duties paid on the fpirit by the Eng lith diftiller; and that the ftills fo licenfed could not be worked more than once in twenty-four hours. Upon the fuppofition that fuch declaration was true, an act was paffed in 1786 for that duty to take place; but no fooner was the license made, than the Scotch diftillers exerted every industry, and every means were made ufe of to reduce the revenue. This they did, by decreafing the gauge of their ftills, fo that, inftead of paying duty for 60,000 gallons of ftill, as had been computed they would, they paid but 32,000. Nor was it from any falling off of Liquor diftilled, that fo great a decrease of the revenue enfued; for the reverfe was the cafes. The quarter before the license they imported into the Engl. market 245,000 gallons; the next quarter the number of gallons imported, amounted to 900, 700; the first quarter of 1787 the importation was 752,000, fince which time, they have had the whole confumption of Scot land free of duty, and a furplus for the English market.

continued, operate to the deftruction of the English Diftillers. He concluded by faying, that witnefles would be called to the bar, to prove that the Scotch Diftil. lers, fo far from complying with their de claration of working their ftills but once in 24 hours, had actually charged and difcharged them fix and seven times in the twenty-four hours.

Mr Benwell, of Batterfea, and several orher witneffes, were then called to the bar, in fupport of the English Distillers. After which Meff. Grant and Campbell, counfel, examined witneffes against the petition, and pleaded in fupport of the Scotch Diftillers.

The examination of witneffes on both

fides being gone through, and the House being refumed, Mr Rofe reported pro grefs, and afked leave to fit again to morrow.

H. of L. 5. The order of the day for fummoning the Houfe being read, the Earl of Selkirk rofe, and defired that the refolution on the journals of the Houfe in the year 1762, relative to the perfons who claimed the honours and title of Lord Rutherford, might be read. It was to the following purport: "That Alex, Rutherford and David Durie, who each claimed the title and honours of Lord Rutherford, or any perfon claiming un der them, or either of them, have no right to affume the title, or to vote in the elections of the Peers of Scotland, till they, or either of them, fhall have efta blifhed their right to the said honours." His Lordship then briefly stated, that, in direct violation of the refolution of the Houfe, which had juft been read, a per fon, calling himself Lord Rutherford, had, by a figned lift, voted at the late election of a Peer in Scotland, and that his vote had been received. He therefore felt himself called upon to bring this flagrant violation of the refolution of the Houfe, and of the honour and dignity of the order to which he belonged, under the review of their Lordships in the forma of a complaint. He had brought it forward from no party motive; for, had the election been unanimous, he conceived that the refolution of the Houfe would have been equally violated. He then read the motion, complaining that George Home and Robert Sinclair, Efqrs; the Deputies of the Lord Regifter, had, in direct violation of a refolution of that Houfe, received the vote of a perfon claiming the title of Lord Rutherford, in the election of a Peer for Scotland; and concluded with moying, that the Ва

The Alderman contended, that the continuation of the prefent duty on the fills of Scotland, was not only injurious to the revenue, but would certainly, if

fame be referred to a Committee of Privileges.

The Lord Chancellor wished the Noble Earl had been a little more explicit as to the nature and extent of his motion, which, he confeffed, he was not very well prepared to anfwer, farther than to ftate the inconveniency, and even injuftice, which muft, in his opinion, neceffarily refult from bringing forward a motion tending to criminate perfons in a cafe where civil rights were to be afcertained. Here was no petition from any perfon, who had been aggrieved by the vote in queftion, and with regard to the refolution, it did not appear that it had been violated. There was no proof brought that the perfon who voted as Lord Rutherford, at the late election, claimed his right to vote under either of the claimants who had been the objects of the refolution in queftion-and till that was done, it would be manifeft injuftice to agree to a motion, the object of which was the crimination of the returning of ficers, who had not, he believed, the power of rejection. He wished to know from those who were more converfant in the conftitution of Scotland than he pretended to be, whether the Lord Regifter was a minifterial or a judicial officer. Had he the power of receiving or rejecting votes at pleafure? Or was he, by virtue of his office, to admit every vote, fubject to the review of the Houfe? With refpect to the title of the perfon claiming a right to vote as Lord Rutherford, he was not prepared to fpeak. Knowing the honour of the Noble Earl who had brought forward the motion, and his zeal for the dignity of the order to which he belonged, he could not for a moment entertain the idea that he had, from any finlfter motive, been induced to agitate a queftion which he confeffed did not strike him in the fame light. No man was more ready to fupport the dignity of the House than himself. True dignity, he obferved, confifts not in the exertion of power, unless it is actuated by the unerring impulfe of juftice; and he felt himself called upon to oppofe any motion, the tendency of which was to cenfure during the dependence of a claim where civil rights were concerned.

Lord Viscount Stormont expreffed his aftonishment at the oppofition of the Noble and Learned Lord to a queftion, the object of which was certainly nothing farther, in the firft inftance, than an inquiry whether the refolutions of the House had been violated or not. If they

had, it was right that those who had da red to violate them fhould be punished: If they were not, no injuftice could be done to any perfon from the investigation. The Learned Lord had asked whether the Lord Regifter of Scotland was a minifterial or a judicial officer. Moft certainly he was a minifterial officer; he had no power vefted in him of ascertaining the right of perfons claiming to vote as Peers of Scotland, but ftill he had a difcretionary power of rejecting what was manifeftly wrong. The Noble Earl near him (Morton) could tell him from tradition, if not from memory, that an ancestor of his, who filled the office of Lord Regifter, had actually rejected votes, in which he was afterwards fupported by the decisions of the House of Peers. He concluded with giving his affent to the motion.

Lord Cathcart apologized for rifing to addrefs their Lordships almost as foon as he had entered within their Lordships walls; but being fo nearly concerned in the queftion before the Houfe, he conceived it would be expected that he should fay fomething upon the fubject. His Lordship then entered into a very circumftantial detail of the origin, nature and progrefs of the rules of proceeding that govern the election of a Peer of Scotland to fit in Parliament; referring to the ftatute of Queen Anne, that firft enacted the regulations, and tracing the various authorities that had been fince eftablished; from all of which he inferred, that the office of Lord Register was a minifterial, and not a judicial office, as far as refpected the election of Scotch Peers. He spoke highly of the gentlemen who act at prefent as Deputies of the Lord Regifter, and faid, he owed them that juftice. With regard to Lord Rutherford, who had done him the honour to fend his lifts, he would inform the Houfe what he knew of his family, and the ground of his claim to the Peerage. The firft Lord Rutherford was a cadet in the army, and was created a Peer by Charles II. as a reward for a diftinguished piece of fervice. As he was meant to be highly favoured, his Patent of Peerage gave him the very fingular right of difpofing of his Peerage by will. He made his will accordingly at Portfmouth previous to his failing on an expedition against Tangiers, where he and his whole party were cut off. He was fucceeded in title by Sir Thomas Rutherford, his relation, who was fucceeded at his death by his next brother, and

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