Poetical Ess AYS in DECEMBER, 1753. 611 On this, they with fubmission crav'd With your confent, I chufe to hear My friends, the caufe of this our meeting How you would have the weather blow, You, friend, (I know not yet your names) Then stood up one, My name is James. Well, James, your judgment tell me plain, What weather chufe you? I'm for rain, And you, the next, your mind fpeak out; Then lays one, Let the wind blow weft, My friends, fays he, this will not do It paffes my abilities To work impoffibilities. At present you can not agree; 'Gainst the next meeting make your choice; Speak your opinion with one voice; Be of one mind: And then I shall Give weather that will please you all. Some other schemes, of course, poffefs my For he who once has eat,-muft eat again. And left this lank, this melancholy phyz Should grow more lank, more difmal than [ftare! it is, A fcheme I have in hand will make you cit, Requiring converfe by the laws of nature; And as the moon can raife the fwelling flood, mem'ry last, [paft: My mind fhall treasure up your favours And might one added boon encrease the ftore, [thore: With much lefs forrow fhould I quit this To mine, as you have been to me, prove kind, [behind; Protect the pledge, my fondness leaves To you her guardians I refign my care, Let her with others your indulgence share; Whate'er my fate; if this my with prevails, "Twill glad the father, tho' the fchemist fails. To Mifs MACKLIN, on her Father and Mother's leaving the Stage. SINCE fprightly wit, and humour you poffefs, Majestick carriage, and polite addrefs; Since 612 IMPORTANT ADVICES from IRELAND. Since you, as if by instinct, do inherit, With lefs regret the lofs of them we bear, Then the rich produce we may hope to fee, App. bune to his coach, and conducted their glorious defender home, amidst repeated acclamations, and the joyful shouts of protected liberty. The found of the trumpet was not wanting to proclaim the glad tidings, which, as in an inftant, reached the most diftant parts of the city; joy fparkled in every honeft countenance, and gladdened every honeft heart: The blaze of more than 1000 bonfires illumined our ftreets, which refounded with the grateful voice of multitudes, whofe rejoicings were only fufpended by the approach of day. Such were the expreffions, by which a people, truly fenfible of the inestimable bleffings of liberty, and the merits of those difnterested champions, who, with a generous difregard of private intereft, fo nobly contended for the publick, testified their gratitude and approbation; and which might have done Honour to the antient Romans, thofe fons of freedom, even when their republick was at its highest pitch of glory and perfection. Tucfday, 18. The merchants and traders of this city prefented the following addrefs, figned by upwards of 100 of the moft eminent (whofe names, for want of room, we are obliged to omit) to Sir SAMUEL COOKE, Bart. one of our reprefentatives in parliament, which he accepted with great politenefs, teftifying the fignal picafure he received by this publick mark of approbation from fo refpectable a body; and affuring them, that as it has hitherto been his conftant endeavour to acquit himfelf of the facred truft delegated to him with fidelity and honour; fo should be on every future occafion invariably pursue the fame great object, by fupporting, to the utmost of his power, fuch measures, as feem beft calculated to promote and fecure the true intereft and welfare of his conAituents, To Sir Samuel Cooke, Bart, one of the SIR, In the prefent crisis of affairs, when the prefervation of every thing truly valuable calls for our utmost vigilance and circumfpection, to maintain the principles of our happy conftitution facred and inviolable; we the fubfcribing merchants and traders of the city of Dublin, cannot omit this opportunity of testifying our entire approbation of your conduct in parliament, as well in promoting the intereft of this city in particular, as in opposing such measures, as might prove fatal to the welfare and liberty of the kingdom. Our regard for the prefent and future generations, would call upon us to exhort you to perfevere, did not the gene 2 *753. IMPORTANT ADVICES from IRELAND. rous principles upon which you have hitherto acted make that unneceffary. It is, therefore, our part to affure you, that a faithful discharge of your duty will be the fureft recommendation to a grateful people, who will, upon all occafions, endeavour to shower honours upon those, and upon thofe alone, who adhere ftedfaftly to the true united interest of our moft excellent king, and yet happy country. Such are the marks of refpect and gratitade, which are at the fame time the juk reward, as well as the infeparable attendant on virtue and publick fpirit; and it is very obfervable, that several of the gentlemen who concurred in the above addrefs, were fuch as efpoufed a contrary intereft on the late election. Many of the inhabitants, who from the lateness of the hour had not an opportunity of rejoycing on the determination of the preceding night, teftified their approbation of that important decifion by bonfires, illuminations, and other expreffions of the fincereft joy. Wednesday, 19. Near 100 noblemen and gentlemen, of the first diftinction in the province of Munster, with the lord mayor and fheriffs, dined at the Tholfell of this city; the right hon. Henry Boyle, speaker of the Houfe of Commons, in the chair :' Where all poffible magnificence and elegance were difplayed for their table entertainment, while their ears were delighted with an excellent band of mufick, the ringing of all the bells in town, and by the pleafing acclamations of the populace round a large bonfire, where they poured out their unaffected, cordial praises of their benefactors. In this fcene of mirth and good humour, which were never more eminently distinguishable in any assembly, all toafts, expreffing loyalty and patriotifm, were remembered, amongst which the following were moft remarkable : The king. The prince of Wales. The princefs dowager of Wales, and the rest of the royal family. The duke, and the army. The duke, and battle of Culloden. The glorious and immortal memory of the great king William. May the fucceffion to the crown be perpetuated in the illuftrious houfe of Hanover. The lord Neutenant. Profperity to Ireland. Profpertiy to Mumiter. Profperity to the city of Dublin. All thofe worthy citizens, who joined in thanks to their faithful reprefentative, Sir Samuel Cooke, for his good conduct in parliament. May the commons ever hold the purfe of the nation. May the prefent fpeaker, and all fucceeding fpeakers, maintain their dig. nity in the state. May power ever remain in the friends of Ireland. May there never be wanting an earl of Kildare, of as much 613 spirit and fenfe as the prefent, so fupport the liberty of Ireland. May thofe only feel ecclefiaftical tyranny, who would fubmit to it. May the commons of Ireland ever defend themselves from all undue, anticonftitutional influence. The glorious majority on the 23d of Nov. and the 17th of Dec, Religion without priestcraft. The church to the bible. Keep to your tackle, old Harry. The linen manufacture. All the manufactures of Ireland. Lord Tyrone. Lord Kingsborough The patriot reprefentatives of Ulfter. The patriot reprefentatives of Leinster. The patriot reprefentatives of Connaught. May the true lovers of liberty, in GreatBritain and Ireland, be for ever united in affection, as they are in intereft, &c. &c. &c. Many zealous citizens forced into the room, to view the earl of Kildare and the Speaker, their beloved patrons = And after gratifying their curiofity, and expreffing their fatisfaction by a loud Buzza, very orderly retired. The chearfulness and unanimity, that fo power fully prevailed in this affembly, promise the best effects to the province, and to the whole kingdom, as far as the endeavours of one province may contribute thereto And its first endeavour affords, a fair example for the other provinces, in the following refolution of thanks to their worthy reprefentatives in parliament for the province of Munster. At an affembly of the gentlemen of the province of Munster, held at the Tholfell of the city of Dublin, on Wednesday the 19th of December, 1753. Refolved, That the thanks of this affembly be given to the Speaker, and to' their faithful reprefentatives in parlia ment; for having, in this critical feafon, zealoufly and fuccefsfully defended the cause of liberty against all anticonftitutional invafions; for having exhibited for pofterity the moft illuftrious ex-. amples of loyalty and patriotism; and for having, with the afftance of the generous reprefentatives of other parts of this kingdom, hitherto preferved their country from the mifchievous effects of corruption and other male-practices, by which they have entitled themselves to the most grateful acknowledgments and fervices of all who have a due fenfe of the intereft of this kingdom, and rightly, conceive how greatly fociety is concerned. in giving virtue ample rewards. The difcovery of William Price, a native and joiner of Crickhewel in Breconshire, who was the barbarous murderer of the Jew, (fee p. 578.) was occasioned chiefly by his audacicully carrying in his pockets Leveral 614 Other ADDITIONS to DECEMBER, 1753. feveral watches, and wearing at his knees "Nov. 20, I was going from my mo- The Rt. Hon. the lord Onflow, Sir FRIDAY, 28. The drawing of the ftate lottery endea B-KR-TS. W Bermondley, hipwright.-George WILLIAM Tobin, of St. Mary Hutton, of Cornhill, linendraper.-Ifaac Alterations in the Lift of Parliament. fed. Flint town, Sir John Glynne, bart. Higham Ferrers, John Yorke, Efq; Bedford hire, earl of Upper Offory- Litchfield, Sir Thomas Grefley, bart. Selkirk, Gilbert Elliot, Efq;- John Worcestershire, Edmund Pytts, Efq;- In the city of Norwich, from Dec. 25, At Ipfwich the chriftenings amounted The number of burials at Amsterdam At the Hague the burials amounted An yearly bill of mortality for the city' Males buried 959 870 Males chr. Total 1825 Total 1837 Decreased in burials 19, Chriftenings A General BILL of all the Clriftenings and Males Dec. 11, 1753. Chrifined Females 7584 Females 9786 INDEX to the DEBATES in the POLITICAL CLU 3, Almet the dervife, ftory of, with his moral Bite of a mad dog, receipt for 147. How 566 ter 65 Alterations in the lift of parliament 45, Ariftocracy, how the marriage at may tend Arrianus Maturius, his fpeech in favour of Art of not hearing people, or not knowing them Appendix, 1753. 494 524 376 Bristol, the riot there 242. Reward for Bristol, of the new Exchange there 5201 41 579 |