Poetical ESSAYS in APRIL, 1753. With all th' hypocrify of grave grimace, Have Pæon's fons attracted vulgar eyes, And made themselves confpicuous by difguife. [confcious pride But, now, with heart-felt worth and We are ourselves-and throw the mask afide : The flow funeral-folemn fober pace, Turns to the waddle and the fliding grace; That look, which death denounces or defies, [eyes The gape-diftended mouth, and half-fhut No longer pleafe-but in their place are seen The fmiles fo foft, fo fimple, and ferene! Life's a difeafe we all a while endure, And which moft doctors feldom fail to cure; [breath, And wou'd you with politeness lofe your And flide genteely to the realms of death, The beau phyfician ftands the first in place, [grace: And hands you off with elegance and Therefore no more this mockery I'll wear, This old compound of face, and cane, and hair; Call poetry and other arts This can't remain a standing rule, God the univerfal Parent. A HYMN compofed with a View to the Anniversary of the Charity-Schools of London and Weftminster. IGH-rais'd on heaven's imperial throne, Diffembling now's a trite and trivial task, HI He's the best cheat who bravely scorns Th' Almighty holds his feat; Nor yet the glories of high heav'n His various bleffings round; By us, in each expreffive fwell, A thoufand proofs are giv'n; Snatch'd, as we are, from death and hell, And rais'd to life and heav'n. By grateful love inflam'd, we burn, Fir'd by th' expreffive call: And render, Lord, in just return, Our tongues, our hearts, our all. 7. Rhudde, Vicar of Portefham, Dorfet. HOLT quam: "Quodq; tibi nolles, aliis fecifle carvete : Quodq; tibi velles, aliis præftare ftudeto." Hæc eft natura lex optima: quam nifi ad unguem [cebis, Servabis, non ipfe Dro (mihi crede) plaPoftq; obitum infœlix non aurea fidera adibis. [rem, Alterius famam vel bonorem tangere vel Invidiâ, aut irá, aut fuadente cupidine, noli: Immò juva, quos effe bones intelligis, omni Sedulitate: : malisq; interdum gratificare, Quod tibi vel nunquam noceant, vel parcius obfint. [amorve, Nec te a juflitiâ retrahant mala`munera, Autodium; namq; hæc tria funt quæ lumina mentis [trudunt. Præftringunt, rectoq; homines a limite Sed memor efto DEI femper, mortifq; futuræ. Poft hæc illecebras omnes fuge corporis, atq; Fræna voluptati duriffima pone: voluptas Improba perniciem ingentem mortalibus affert. In short, forfake not justice, though you fhou'd, [good; Thro' intreft, love or bate, incline from For these three often human reason blind, And from strict honour warp the partial mind. GOD's attributes compare with thy frail fate, And thun temptations of your prefent state. Laftly, curb pleasure! Since vain pleasures bring Great forrows oft, and always leave a sting. To Mr. R. DYER, on bis Poem, entitled, The CARNATION, to Miss PELHAM. ONG had the rofe, in vernal bloom Lo array'd, Been hail'd as queen, în ev'ry_ fylvan shade; Improv'd the fprighly bowl on feftal [nights, And crown'd the brightest wreaths in folemn rites : Till thy carnation, 'midft furrounding fnows, In the gay fplendor of the rainbow rofe: Unblefs'd by Sol, fhot forth its beauteous head, [Spread; And fweets ambrofial round the garden And now embosom'd by a matchlefs fair, Shall vie in fame with Berenice's hair. J. L—K—N. EPIGRAM on Lord BOLINGBROKE'S Letters and the Answers. W By style fo clear and elegant misled, HEN Bolingbroke on history I read, The deep learn'd page as innocent I thought, Nor deem'd against one scripture truth he wrote: [pen But pious Hervey's, Clayton's wondrous Convince that errors dwell in wifeft men; Each gofpel miracle like noon-day shines, E'en Mofes rock fresh gushes in `your lines : Bleft age! fuch watchful fhepherds to behold, [christian fold! Who feeds God's flock, nor fleece their Their arguments fo candid, modest, plain, I ne'er can taste lord Bolingbroke again. EUGENIO. AREBU S. A TRADING town in England, not the By way of myftick rebus may be guest; Invert the three first letters, and you'll fcan, THE Monthly Chronologer. HE body of Mr. William Maude, mentioned p. 147, has been fince TC found, and the coroner's inqueft gave their verdict, Wilful murder by perfons tothem unknown. On March 30, was held a chapter of the most antient order of the thistle, when the Rt. Hon. John earl of Rothes, and William lord de Brooke were elected knights companions of that order. One Hewith, condemned at Exeter affizes for poisoning his father, was executed on March 31, according to the late act of parliament. He had been tried in 1751, for the murder of his mother, and acquitted. At the gallows he denied the poifoning of his father, but acknowledged he deferved death for his barbarous ufage to his mother, whom he had feveral times beat in a cruel manner. Mifs Dorothy Smith was tried at Warwick affizes upon an indictment for poifoning her aunt, Mrs. Dorothy Martin, relict of the Rev. Mr. Martin, of Curdworth near Colefhill. Mr. ferj. Willes, Mr. White, and Mr. Peake, were counfel on behalf of the crown; and the prifoner pleading not guilty, she was defended by Mr. Caldecut, Mr. Hewit, and Mr. Geaft. The gentlemen who opened the body were examined, and it was their opinion that, by the appearance of her ftomach and bowels, fhe died of poison. Many other evidences were examined; but no proof could be given of the adminiftration of the poifon; and a point of law arifing, whether the girl that bought it, who was under nine years of age, could be admitted an evidence, which was learnedly debated for above two hours, it was determined in the negative; and many perfons of reputation appearing to testify for the prifouer's good behaviour towards her aunt from her infancy, The was acquitted. It is faid that 70,000l. will be raised by way of lottery, 20,000l. of which is to be applied to the purchase of Sir Hans Sloane's curiofities; 10,000 for the vaJuable collection of manufcripts of the late lord Oxford; the remaining 40,000, together with 7000 bequeathed fome time fince towards rebuilding the Cottonian library, to be laid out in erecting a publick building, which is to ferve as a repofitory for the above-mentioned, and for the payment of the falaries of proper perfons to take care of them. SUNDAY, April 1. There was a grand drawing room at St. James's, where the nobility and gentry were very numerous, when, 'tis faid, his majesty was pleafed to give the title of duke of Cornwall to his royal highnefs the prince of Wales, which has been vacant ever fince the death of the late prince. THURSDAY, 5. The lord bishop of Clogher prefented to the fociety of Antiquaries, a tranflation of a Journal to mount Sinai, made in the year 1722, by the prefetto of Egypt, with his own curious and learned obfervations, dedicated to the fociety: And thanks were ordered to be returned to his lordship for the great regard shewn to them, as well as for his learned labours. (See p. 155.) After a fermon preached by the Hon. and Rt. Rev. the lord bishop of St. Asaph at Whitechapel church, the governors of the London-hofpital proceeded to fee the foundation already laid of the hospital in Whitechapel road, and from thence went in a grand proceffion of coaches to Merchant-Taylors hall, where a collection was made, including that at the church, amounting to 15251. 195. 6d. SATURDAY, 7. William Hurley was executed at Croydon for the murder of Joshua Newton in St. George's fields, in April laft. He had been drinking with Newton for fome hours, till he was fuddled, then invited him to lie with him at his lodgings, and in the way thither knocked him down with a large hedge-ftake, afterwards beat and cut him in a most terrible manner, and then robbed him. After his conviction he confeffed the fact, another murder, and many robberies. At Croydon affizes 10 other perfons received fentence of death, viz. Robert Hay and John Brown, for theep-stealing; Jofeph Davis and Swaine Luenberg, for returning from tranfportation; Henry Tomkins, for stealing a watch; John Sturmey, John Grove, Philip Turner, John Whiffen and Thomas M'Sheene, for the highway. MONDAY, 9. As Mr. John Pead, a baker and farmer of Hilperton, near Trowbridge, and his fon (a very profligate young man) were at work in a field together, fome words arofe; when the fon fell on his father, and beat him in a moft cruel manner, and, it is thought would have mur dered him, had not his father's cries been heard by Mr. Ferris in the next field, who went to his affiftance, when the fon ran away and leaped into a quarry about Bb 194 The MONTHLY CHRONOLOGER. 60 yards off, in which were 12 feet water; WEDNESDAY, 11. Alexander Sheafe, Efq; having been elected governor, and Charles Palmer, Efq; deputy governor of the Bank of England, the following gentlemen were on this day chofen directors, viz. Bryan Benfon, Stamp Brookbank, Matthew Beachcroft, Merrick Burrell, Bartholomew Burton, Richard Chifwell, J. Eaton Dodfworth, William Hunt, Benjamin Lethieulier, Benjamin Longuet, Charles Savage, Theophilus Salwey, James Spilman, Jolin South, James Theobald, Thomas Whately, Charles Boehm, Matthew Clarmont, Efqrs. * Samuel Fludyer, Efq; and alderman, Samuel Handley, Robert Marth, Richard Stratton, John Sargent, and Harry Thompfon, Efqrs. Thofe marked * were not in the direction before. The fame day came on the election for directors of the Eaft-India company, when the following gentlemen were chofen, viz. William Barwell, William Braund, Robert Bootle, Hen. Crabb Boulton, John Boyd, Chriftopher Burrow, Richard Chauncy, Roger Drake, Peter Du Cane, Zach. Phil. Fonnerau, Michael Impey, Stephen Law, William Mabbott, Nathaniel Newnham, jun. Henry Plant, Thomas Phipps, *William Rider, Thomas Rous, Whichcott Turner, Timothy Tullie, *Thomas Walpole, William Wilberforce, jun. William Willy, and James Winter, Efqrs. Note, Thofe marked with * are new ones. THURSDAY, 12. The governors of St. Luke's hofpital for lunaticks, had their annual dinner at Grocers-hall : At which were prefent the Rt. Hon. the earl of Cardigan, prefident; his grace the archbishop of Canterbury, the Rt. Hon. the earl of Hertford, the Rt. Rev. the lord bishops of Worcester and Norwich, feveral of the court of aldermen, and many other perfons of diftinction; when the collection for the charity amounted to 1000l. 73. 6d. FRIDAY, 13. Anne Williams for poifoning her hufband, Walter Crabb for ftealing upwards of 40l. and William Weobly for fheepRealing, were executed at Gloucefter. The two men behaved with great compofure, both after fentence and at the place of execution; but Anne Williams, who was burnt at the ftake, protested her innocence of the fact for which she suffered with a behaviour quite unbecoming. MONDAY, 16. The execution of Mary Squires the April gypsy having been refpited for fix weeks, the fix other malefactors condemned the laft feffions at the Old-Bailey, viz. four men and two women, were this day executed at Tyburn. They behaved very penitent, and all but M Manning acknowledged the juftice of their fentence; but he faid he was not the perfon who committed the robbery. (See p. 92.) Divine fervice was performed in the chapel at the Foundling hospital for the first time, when the Rt. Rev. the lord bishop of Worcester preached a fermon on the importance and usefulness of that great charity, inftituted for the prefervation of deferted infants, and the making them become profitable to the publick; and Te Deum, with an anthem peculiar to the occafion, compofed by George Frederick Handel, Efq; that great benefactor to this charity, and alfo the coronation anthem, were vocally and inftrumentally performed. Dr. Cameron, brother of Lochiel, who was feized in Scotland two or three days after his return from France, was this evening brought to the Tower in a coach under a ftrong guard of dragoons. The next day he underwent a long examination before the council at the Cockpit, after which he was fent back to the Tower. TUESDAY, 17. His majesty went to the houfe of peers, and gave the royal assent to, An act to explain, amend, and render more effectual, an act for the encouragement of the British white herring fishery, and for regulat ing the faid fishery according to the calendar now in ufe, and for other purposes therein mentioned: An act to oblige ships more effectually to perform their quarantine, and for the better preventing the plague being brought from foreign parts into Great-Britain or Ireland, or the ifles of Guernsey, Jersey, Alderney, Sark, or Man: An act for opening the port of Exeter, for the importation of wool, and woollen yarn, from Ireland: An act for permitting the exportation of wool and woollen or bay yarn from any port in Ireland, to any port in Great-Britain: To two bills for repairing and improving harbours: To acts for building a new church at Manchester; a chapel at Portsea, in the county of Southampton; for enlarg ing Paddington church-yard; purchafing a prifon in the county of Devon; for the recovery of fmall debts in the parishes of Boston Skirbeck in Lincoln fhire; to 22 road bills; and to 11 private bills, WEDNESDAY, 18. A formon was preached in the chapel of the French hospital in Old-street road, for 1753. MARRIAGES, DEATHS, &c. for the benefit of that charity, wherein 225 poor perfons are maintained; where the audience were very numerous, and. the collection on that account amounted to upwards of 1250l. THURSDAY, 19. Five of the 10 malefactors condemned. at Croydon affizes were this morning executed on Kennington common, viz. Jofeph Davis for returning from transportation; John Sturmey, John Grove, John Whiffen, and Thomas M'Sheene, for robberies on the highway. THURSDAY, 26. The birth-day of his royal highness the duke of Cumberland was celebrated, who then entered into the 33d year of his age. The indemnification claimed by M. Peyrac, owner of the French merchantman the Phoenix, condemned at St. ChriRopher's in 1743, has occafioned a memorial to be prefented to the fecretary of ftate by the marquis de Mirepoix, the French ambaffador, in confequence of one prefented to him by the faid M. Peyrac ; the conclufion of which fhews the ftate of his cafe, as follows: "The fentence of the lords commiffioners for appeals, on the 18th of Jan. laft, allows him reftitution of the ship and cargo, or the real value: This value being that which the plaintiff legally notified to the captors at St. Chriftopher's, amounts to 20,4111. and not what it was fettled at by an irregular and unusual eftimation, made without his knowledge or participation, and against which he entered a proteft as foon as he knew of it. The plaintiff could obtain no farther relief from their lordships. But the costs, damages, and intereft, which he claimed in 1743, and again in 1744, and on every occafion fince that time, particularly when his appeal was judged, having been passed over in filence, the plaintiff thinks himself entitled to demand a decifion concerning thofe articles, which are become even more confiderable than the capital." MARRIAGES and BIRTHS. G March 22. 25. Charles Lamborne, Efq; of a confiderable fortune in the West-Indies, to Mifs Anne Harvey, of Fenchurch-street. Capt. Hughes, to Mrs. Peters, widow of the late Dr. Peters, an eminent phyfician. 31. George Dewar, Eq; to lady Caroline Bertie, fifter to his grace the duke of Ancafter. Mr. Collins, an attorney near Wor 195 cefter, to Mifs Peggy Afton, youngest daughter of the late Sir Thomas Afton, of Afton, in Chethire, Bart. a 14,000l. fortune. April 2. Capt. Bradley, to Mifs Addis, of Berkeley-fquare. Capt. Dormer Watson, to Mifs Powney, daughter of brigadier Powney. 13. John Cooper, Efq; of Edinburgh, to Mifs Poore, eldest daughter of Edward Poore, Efq; of the Clofe, Sarum. 15. William Anne Venables Vernon, of Staffordshire, Efq; to Mifs Augusta Heathcote, of Harrow, a 30,000l. for tune. 18. Thomas Bray, Efq; of Dorfetshire, to Mifs Elizabeth Burton, of Edmonton.* 22. Robert Drummond, Efq; partner with Mr. Drummond and fon, bankers, at Charing-Crofs, to Mifs Thompson, of Leicester-fields. Rev. Dr. Pickering, rector of St. Sepulchre's, to Mifs Elizabeth Sclater, fifter of Mr. deputy Sclater, of Newgate-street. 24. Hildebrand Oakes, Efq; of the royal Welch fufileers, to Mifs Cornelifon, of Upper Grosvenor-street, a niece of Sir Richard Hoare. Mr. Webb, jun. an eminent furgeon, to Mifs Coppinger. April 7. The lady of Charles Lewis Montolien, fon to the baron St. Hippolite, general of his majesty's forces, delivered of a fon and heir. The lady of the Hon. James Annesley, Efq; of a daughter. The lady of the Hon. capt. Montilla, of a fon. 13. The lady of Edward Sawbright, Efq; of a fon and heir. 14. The lady of the Hon. and Rev. Dr. Egerton, dean of Hereford, of a fon. 18. Rt. Hon. lady Ferrers, only daugh ter of the earl of Northampton, and confort of the Hon. George Townshend, Efq; of a fon and heir. 23. The lady of Peter Legh, Efq; of a daughter. DEATHS. March 18.ford, counters dowager T. Hon. Rachel Paunce fenior of Kincardine. 26. Hon. William Duff, Efq; eldeft fon of lord Bracco, a Scotch peer. 30. The lady of Sir Evelin Alfton, Bart. Sir William Cann, Bart. town-clerk of Bristol. 31. Hon. Thomas Howard, Efq; lieut. gen. of his majefty's forces, and governor of Berwick upon Tweed; a brave and experienced officer. April 8. Monf. Zamborni, refident here from the landgrave of Heffe Darmflat. Bb 2 Rev. |