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moved, that the petition be now received. The petition was then received and read.

25] The article of public charge, with refpect to Dungannon fort, caufed much converfation, the purport of which was, that it would be appropriated to the fund for the intended fyftem of education, or other important purposes.

The catual charge of 6000l. for barracks, was fpoken of for fome time, and Mr. Corry reprobated the undefined latitude of the King's letters. Upon a motion of Mr. Burgh's, that the proper officer fhould lay the accounts relative to the purpofes of that charge before the Houfe, it was evinced by fome right hon. gentleman, that there was no proper officer for that purpofe, and the fecretary declaring that he would lay the particulars before them as foon as poffible, the motion was withdrawn.

The King's letter for two hundred pounds for the Waterford road, was alto mentioned as being an extraordinary circumftance that affair was juftified on the principle, that packets had been eftablished at Waterford, and that the road was indifpenfably wanting for the expedition of the mail to Cork.

Mr. Hartley said, he had a petition to prefent from the corporation for badging the poor, which ftated, that an additional building for a Dormitory was wanting to the Houfe of Industry, which would enable them to take a greater number of poor objects, and alfo prove of the utmoft utility to the health of those who were confined or took refuge in that afylum-that they prayed for 5000l. parliamentary aid to execute the fame. He then Pefented the petition.

Sir Henry Cavendish faid, that an application of a fimilar nature had been made to that Houfe about fix years fince, and rejected. That for his part, he thought the building of extenfive hou. les for the reception of people of the defcription already mentioned, was only an encouragement to idleness among the lower orders, and therefore he was decidedly against such a grant of the pub. lic money.

Sir F. Hutchinfon spoke in favour of the peti

ton.

Chancellor of Exchequer declared himself decidedly against the application. No man was a greater friend to charity than himself, but, from the office he had the honour of holding, which principally involved in its consideration the economy of the national purfe, he muft oppose it to the utmost of his power. It was the practice, thus to lodge in petitions for money, early in the feffion, according to eftimates which had been made, without having previously confulted upon the business; but to prevent gentlemen from any farther unnecellary trouble of a like nature, he would make his promised motion—

"That no fums of the public money should e granted this feffion, (unlefs to colleges and chools) to any public work, navigation, milk, churches, bridges, repairs, &c. or any manufacures, but thote for which diftin&t fums were appropriated, unlefs to fuch public purposes as had aitherto received the aid of parliament.”

Mr. Trench, (who yesterday prefented a petition in favour of the Lying-in-Hofpital) faid he rofe with the greatest respect to the adminiftration of the day, and his motive was to prevent

their plunging through misinformation, into an act of strong and flagrant injuftice. He faid general affection did not always include particular circumft: .ces; he confidered himself as out of the queftion-was fatisfied to abide by any per fonal inconvenience his effort to ferve the public might occafion; but in juftice to the artificers who had placed a confidence in him, he ipfifted on ftating their fituation. Had thofe fums in queftion been with-held by that timid caution, which would now appear prudence, the road would not have been covered, the windows glazed, the communications, indifferent as they are, open, or the common matters for reception procured; from the great influx of the public, and the deteftable condition of the stairs, it tended greatly to the fafety of the workmen to have a lecond ftairs for defcending-workmen were now day and night employed at it, and yet this is a conduct the fervants of the crown have thought proper to cenfure.

He faid, he had in his hands a fummons, which he read with much concern. It was to meet and confider of the neceffity of limiting the admission of patients, and appropriating part of their wretched fund, to the discharge of their just debts. He had determined to poftpone his private claims, but reaton required the artificers should be paid, and a proportionable number of poor must confequently be refused. The public were aware with what fedulous attention, foreign to his line and purfuits in life, he had applied for three years paft, to the advancement of the charity, and the fuperintendence of its works. He faid, he fhould alway, as a faithful trustee, take a proportionsble fhare in the fuperintendence of the charity, but fhould certainly the next day give up any interference as one of a committee for conducting their bufinefs. The gentlemen who were pleased to undertake the conducting the public enter tainments, were fully capable-the officers and fervants of the Hofpital would obey their commands; but from that moment he in no wife confidered himself as refponfible in any matter to the public, for their accommodation. He concluded by faying, his personal respect was fuch for the prefent government, that he should not move any amendment to the clause.

The Chancellor of the Exchequer's motion paffed unanimously.

29.] After fome fummary bufinefs, Mr. Hayes of Avondaler after remarking that the estimate given in for the expence that would be further incurred in building the new courts of justice, and the additional buildings, amounted to no less a fum than 75,000l.; and though he had a very high opinion of the abilities and character of the architect who conducted the buildings, yet, in his opinion, it was neceffary for that Houfe to be informed of the particulars of the estimate, and, also the plan and elevations of the intended buildings. He therefore moved, that the proper officers do lay before the Houfe, the particulars of the eftimates, plans, and elevations of the new courts of juftice and additional buildings,-Ordered accordingly.

Secretary of State begged the attention of the Houfe for a very few minutes; he obferved that in the fpeeeb from the throne, the protection and fecurity of the established church was strongly recommended

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commended. He faid the laft feffions a bill had been brought in, to protect the rights of the clergy, who had been unjustly deprived of their juft claims, by the hands of violence, in the fouthern parts of this kingdom; that the principles of the bill, were juft and moderate, for it only went to inforce compenfation for what was unjustly with held from them, in the year 1786, that in confequence of this bill having paffed into a law, the clergy proceeded to recover their demands, and there were at prefent feveral caufes in refpe& to the fubject matter of that act, now pending in the Court of Chancery. He stated, that the moderation of the legislature had not the defired effect, for though violences had fomewhat abated in the part of the kingdom he had already mentioned, yet the fpirit of combination, in refpr of tythes, ftill exifted, and that in the ftrongest manner; for he had it from the best information, that notices had been issued in several parts of the county of Cork, figned Captain Right, prefcribing under the leverest penalties, all those who fhould take any tythes whatever for the year 1787, and that the cle gy, in feveral places, were obliged to abandon their dwellings; that the horrid practice of inflicting punishment on tythe proctors, in fome places, ftill continued; and that one man had been lately,murdered. He ob. ferved, that if the neceffity of paffing a bill for enforcing a compenfation to the clergy, for withholding their claims, exifted in the year 1787, the neceffity for a fimilar bill was, if poffible, ftill ftronger in the year 1788. He faid, that without the intervention of the legislature, the clergy in our fouthern parts, would be reduced to beggary. It was not however a conteft between the ecclefiaftics and the peafantry, but it was a contest between the legislature and the rabble, ftimulated, no doubt, by the middle-men. ter making a few more pertinent observations on the fubject, he moved for leave to bring in a bill, the fubitance of which is, to make compenfatlon to the clergy, for all claims made by them, on

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The Embarrafment. A Sonnet.

F her dear favour I obtain,
For whom I heave the frequent figh,
My tranfports fuch an height will gain,
Of too great pleafure I fhall die.

Or, if her heart, with coldness steel'd,
So high forbid me to alpire,

My certain doom will then be feal'd,
The victim of too fond defire.

Thus the sharp pain that grieves my heart,

Admits no palliative cure;

Alike the remedy and fart,
My infant ruin will enfure.

pilegue to the Fate of Sparta.

Spoken by Mrs. Eiddons.

account of tythes, for the year 1787, and alfo, to amend an act of a fimilar nature, which passed laft feffion.

The Right Hon. Mr. Grattan rofe, juft to inform the House, that in the courfe of the last seffion, he had mentioned, that he would at an early period of the prefent feffion, take an opportunity of fubmitting his ideas on the subject of tythes to the Houfe, and perhaps this he should do in the courfe of the enfuing week, if it did not interfere with the ufual and neceffary routine of the public business, but as the bill which the right hon. gentleman wants now to introduce, is fomewhat connected with tythes, he muft declare what he was confident of, that the intereft of the husbandman, and the intereft of the parfon is infeparable, nor did he think it altogether unattainable, but that fome mode could be hit on to make the farmer and the clergyman go hand in hand, and in his opinion fuch a mode would be entirely confonant to the principles of good husbandry; for the prefent, he should decline going any larger into the fubject of tythes, but he should on fome convenient day in the course of next week, fubmit his ideas on that head fully to the Houfe. Mr. Grattan at the fame time obferved, that he believed the bill brought in laft feffion, by the Right Hon. Gentleman had not proved altogether efficient.

Mr. Parfons declared himself a warm friend to the rights of the clergy, and he was as ready to defend them by every conftitutional means, as any man in or out of that Houfe, but he said in the act that passed last feffion, for making compenfation to the clergy, there was a claufe, which fays, that in no cafe whatever, a jury shall be impannelled to try the matters in difpute between the parties-this he obferved was a violation of the great charter, and however he might refpect the rights of the clergy, yet he was bound to preferve the conftitution, and not to fuffer the leaft violation of it.

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(To be continued.)

Y.

Judging from what we know, I'm half afraid,
The piece is fancy-yet I ask your aid
To fix my judgment-fairly try the cause,
Try it by that sublimest of all laws,
An English jury !-I recal the word-
Ha ha! Was ever mortal fo abfurd;
'Twould half annihilate e'en me, with fears-
What! try a Poet by his rhyming Peers?
Oh! let the court take any other form,
And my firm foul, fhall bide the pitiless
ftorm."

Refolve yourlelves into a committee of the
house,

And profecute!-but, ah, no palpitating monfe
Would tremble more at ftern grimalkin's fury,
Than I, fhould brother bard, compose the jury.
No wit could fave us, and no hope could cheer,
Our crimes would be to plain-the cale, fo
clear,

HINK you our Author copied from the Mercy, thrice bleft, her power would vainly try,

THINK

In drawing fuch a daughter-such a wife!

And

Guilty!-Guilty !-Death!"--would be the cry.

Well

Well then, I'll make ye all my jury, as ye

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Ye dear Celeftials-Gallery-Boxes-Pit !-
I'm now a pleader-mark me, pray-the fame
Counsellor Siddons ?-Do you know the name ?
I have no brief, 'tis true-but there the cafe,
By many a learned brother's kept in face!
How many a white, clear band, and powder'd
tye,

Which with the bloffoms of the hawthorn vie,
Parade the Hall, and nod-and smile ;-in vain?
Attorneys fmile again-but don't retain !
While the leviathans of law's rough ocean
Diftend their jaw-and gobble every motion!
But all this while, I have forgot to plead-
If your fweet eyes fpeak truth, I've now no need.
Our trembling hopes, in their bright beams fhall
bask-

You feem prepared to grant-all they can ask.
Your hands they ask-such thunders do not
fright

Repeat the peal—once more—and then, good night.

An Occafional Addrefs, written and Spoken by Mr. William Hammatt, on the 28th of Janxary 1788, at a private Theatre near London, for the Benefit of five Orphans.

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Petition from a Broken Necklace.

EAR, cruel mifs, how cou'd you laugh
So heartily, to break me off?
And farther to increafe my woes,
Within a pill-box me inclofe;
Where scent of drugs does fo prevail,
I ficken at it, and grow pale."

I, who did on your neck recline,
And orient pearl ftrove to outshine,
Deck'd out with ribbons of each hue,
The rofe, the green, the pink, the blue;
By you carefs'd, by others prais'd,
Your lovers envy, oft I rais'd.

A change fo great I can't endure,
Then hatte, dear mifs, my wound to cure;
Reftore me to my favourite poft,
And in return, 'gainst chills and froft,
Or rude embrace of boitterous fwain,
My post of honour I'll maintain,
And never quit, 'till fome dear youth,
Whofe eyes (peak love, whose breast is truth,
(No fribble, fot, or fon of pride),
Shall make of you a happy bride.
To his enfolding arms I'll freely yield,
And to him ev'ry night I'll leave the field.
Lines compofed by en Oxonian.

EHOLD, my friends, poor Charity this Ehepherds, who know of my care,
night

BE

Prefents herself to you in begging plight,

Who your kind fupport in a noble cause,

For which the hopes you'll crown her with applaufe,

Five helpless orphans, left i'th' world to ream, Have neither father, mother, friends, nor home;

'Tis you alone then must pronounce their
doom.

Will you, my friends, then act a gen'rous part,
Relieve their wants, and eafe each aching heart:
Let then compaffion reign in ev'ry breast,
And thew your mercy on the poor diftreft.
With boundless thanks they then will you repay
Words are too weak t'express what they would
Say.

One favour more, my friends, there's now to
afk;

If you but grant it, easy then the task.

This night we mean to act the moral play (a),
And hope indulgence for our firft effay;
Why fhou'd the tragic Mufe be then confin'd?
To fhew their skill with an undaunted mind.
In theatres the actors play their parts;
Then fhou'd we be deny'd the felf-fame arts?
Who knows, but after all the pains we take,
We, with our parts, fome progrefs yet may
make.

Ladies and gentlemen, you can't, for fhame,
Thick we, like real actors, can declaim.

[Bell rings. But hark! my friends, I'm fummon'd now within,

With your permiffion then, we will begin.

NOT E.

Ah! pity poor

woe,

Since the tortures of abfence I bear,
And they follow wherever I go.
Deluded with hopes of fuccefs,

I foolishly nourish'd the smart,
And the dread of my rival's addrefs,
With jealousy tortures my heart.
For who was fo happy as I,

When I gaz'd upon ev'ry charm,
The fenfible turn of her eye,

The delicate round of her arm?
Those blushes, which eloquent speak,
Still may they remain on her cheek,
Are ting'd with a natural dye;

Nor ever too treacherous fly.

How oft, when her modefty's shown,
More beauties, engagingly weet,
How I wonder'd how in one alone
Such a concourse of graces fhould meet?
They may call it a folly to love,

Or blame me for lofing my heart,
It is fix'd by a pow'r above,

And I'm fure it is nature, not art.
Tho' the hills for a time may relieve me,
Or meadows, lo verdantly green,
Your prefence, my Emma, believe me,
Can only enliven the scene.

Wou'd the view but the charms of my cut,
The fweets I've referv'd for her care,
Wou'd the view the delights of the spot,
Set apart for my Emma, the fair.
There flourish the buds of the role,
Sweet jeffamines too I have there,

(a) George Barnwell, the play perform'd on And Venus's myrtle tree grows, that evening.

As an emblem of love for my fair.

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Tho' fortune may show'r down wealth,
On others more favour'd than me,
Yet can fhe bestow with it health,

Or a heart that from falfhood is free?

Yet, alas! my repining is vain,

My paffions unknown to the fair; Or perhaps, did the know of my pain,

Do you think he wou'd leffen my care?

To her heart, tho' I might not be dear,
Yet ftill the cou'd pity my fate,
And tenderly lend me an ear,
Nor deem me an object of hate.

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IRST a beautiful maid of Argos define, A title of Mars next to it combine, The first King of Rome must now, gents, be nam'd, [fam'd,

A nymph who for beauty and fill was much
A King fam'd for valour in Troy's fatal-war,
A fon of great Jove, that was turn'd to a star,
A city where flood fair Diana's fair fane,
A wife of bold Neptune you laftly muft name:
The initials, when join'd, will clearly defcry,
A hero of fame, who invaded old Troy.

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S fuch delights my faney cheer'd, A Bard of Albion's Isle appear'd, Who here had loiter'd down the day, While fixty moons had wan'd away: And at his lyre's majestic sound The thepherd train would flock around, Beneath a wood's extensive fhade, Where many a fragrant zephyr play'd.

A roving Nymph to lightly trod, She scarcely mark'd the velvet fod, And with her numbers charm'd the ear

Verfes prefented to his Grace the Duke of Of lift'ning Eve, who flay'd to hear!

F

Buc. leugh.

By William Scott, Efq,

ROM Alpine fummits, bound in endless
frofts,

From fam'd Hefperian scenes and flow'ry coafts,
Or where Eridanus, along the plain,
Conducts a hundred rivers in his train,
Or foaming Tiber speeds his rapid way,
Amidt his hills, to meet the Tufcan fea,
Welcome, my lord, to your paternal woods,
Whole leafy fhades embow'r the fifter floods :
From foreign wand'rings, to domestic ease,
From Belgic tumults, welcome back to peace.
May health, fair angel, now with guardian

care,

Attend your footsteps in this northern air;
Propitious to the vows inceffant made

By crouds, fo long with princely bounty fed.
They late, with anxious hearts, beheld you fly,

To court the influence of a purer fky;

And now, with grateful transport, fee restor'd,

The kind fupplier of their fcanty board.

A Mule unknown, prophetic fees you roam

No more, but reap the fweet delights of home;
Long lov'd and honour'd in your native land,
Give to your country what her vows demand,
In awful fenates yet maintain her cause,
The guardian of her liberties and laws;
Or, fir'd with martial ardour, guard her coafts,
From the proud infults of invading hofts;
Or, emulating heav'n's protecting care,
The wrongs of partial fortune fill repair.
In fond idea here the fees you live;
And long enjoy that happiness you give."

L'AMOUR TIMIDE.

F in that breast, so good, fo pure,

IF in that fo fo

Huh'd was the lonely lover's flute! The doleful nightingale was mute, Whene'er the ftruck her British lyre With Grecian force, and Sappho's fire!

Nor diftant far a Youth reclin'd, Whofe wild harp warbled to the wind, So foftly sweet, so clearly strong, That Arno's felf admired the fong.

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And now with eager hafte I ftrove
To join the Band that charm'd the grove,
But ah, my labour all was vain,
For adverfe powers my course restrain.
Confused at length my vifion grew,
Envy I faw, in yellow veft,
Fantaftic phantoms rofe to view;
Malignant, tear her thrivell'd breaft;
And there the fallen race appear,
Who (corn the glowing verfe to hear;
Amaz'd, I found the tumult rife,

And fleep on hafty pinion flies.

Some years fince a Gentleman of the name of Bond, of Bondvil, in the county of Armagh, died, and left in bis Will, for a Dial to be erected an bis Grave, with the following Inscription:

NMy comb this Dial, epitaph thefe lays;

marble pomp, no monumental praise;

Pride and low mould'ring, clay but ill agree;
Death levels me to beggars, kings to me.
Alive, inftruction was my work each day;
Dead, I perfift inftruction to convey-
Here, reader, mark (perhaps now in thy

prime).

The ftealing tteps of never-standing time:
Thoul't be what I am; catch the prefent

hour;

Employ that well, for that's within thy pow'r.

FOREIGN

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