What tho' I my tube can apply,

And light it whene'er I defire;
And fee its fmoke pleasant mount high,
Virginia ftill finding the fire.
Ah, Winelove, these words are in vain,
Thy pipe and tobacco give o'er ;
No drops on the table remain,

Now PINCHEY* has lock'd up the door.
And you my companions fo dear,
Who forrow to fee me betray'd,
Depriv'd of my bottle and chear,
So fpiritlefs, fad, and dismay'd.

Tho' through the wide world I should range,
'Tis in vain from my fortune to fly,
"Twas Pinchey effected this change,
'Tis mine to be thirsty and dry.
If while my hard fate I deplore,

From his breaft all pity's not fled,
Once again let him ope the vault door,
And give me one bumper of red.
The last humble boon that I crave,
Is thus kindly to moiften my clay;
And when he looks down on my grave,
A few tears of old port let him pay.
Then to a new place let him go,

The tea-cups arrange in array,
And please all the women with show,
A footman fuil gallant and gay;
While Winelove, forgotten and gone,
No longer fhall top off his glafs,
Unless when beneath the pale moon,
His ghoft through the cellar fhall pass.
EMOLA.

I

Primo avulfo, non deficit alter
Aureus, et fimili frondefcit virga metallo.
who of late, with filent step and flow,
Trod the lone path of unavailing woe,
With sprightlier notes, and more enliven'd lay,
Do now retrace green Pleafure's flowery way.
The ftorm is hufh'd, the tempeft is no more,
And fcowling Winter flies Britannia's fhore,
With Spring the Virgin's beating bofom glows,'
And blushes on her cheek Love's crimfon rofe.

The Youth enamour'd eyes the melting Fair,
With fond defire, and pleafing, anxious care.
Yet the loft Parent, to his dubious fight,
Gleams gently thro' the curtain of the night.
As the rude blaft oft chills the vernal day,
And mingles winter with the lively May;
So the fad image wakes a fudden tear,
And checks the promife of bis jocund year.
Yet, hence each gloomy thought, each penfive
figh!
[the fky.
The Reverend Saint looks downward from
So far above, he wings his high career,
An angel now, and fills a brighter sphere.

* A name in honour of this event, and his trifte figure, the enraged Winelove gave his poor butler.

This alludes to the liberal, the brilliant panegyric on the late Archdeacon of Cornwall, by the prefent, in his vifitatorial charge.

3

Well pleas'd to find a fucceffor on earth,
Equal in learning, piety, and worth.
Whether he figure in life's private scene,
Domeftically happy and ferene;

Or, with the pious preacher's fervent zeal,
The facred precepts of his Lord reveal;
Or to his reverend brethren declare
The folemn duties of the pastoral care;
In each department, with peculiar grace
And dignity, he fills proper his place.
See his Affeffor, venerably gay, [play
Good-humour'd mirth, and hearty joy dif-
Tho' round his temples hoary locks are
spread,

And tracking pain confines him to his bed
He lifts his placid head, as if at ease,
And smiles amid the torments of disease.
Thankful, that equal Heaven has affign'd
To a fick body, a found, healthful mind.
Cornwall, May 1, 1788.

A

C. B.

ST. MICHAEL'S MOUNT. $ the wide bay extends from shore to fhore, [roar; And the mount fpurns the fea's impetuous So thy firm foul, unknowing how to yield, Mid Britain's chiefs, ‡ St. Aubyn takes the field.

With irresistible and generous pride,
She boldly ftems corruption's whelming tide.
Beneath her feet the fervile victim treads,
And, just in vengeance, lops his hydra heads.
Hereditary fpirit fires the brave :

Reviving valour springs from glory's grave.
C. B.

HORACE, Book II.

IF

TRANSLATED BY

H. F. CARY.

ODE XXIIL

F thou to heaven doft lift thy hands' fupine, O ruftic maid, when does her horns repair

With incenfe, fruits, and a voracious (wine; The pallid moon, and pay the Lares' care Then nor the deadly fouth-weft fhall thy vine,

Nor fteril mildew blaft thy harvestfair.[air;

Thy flock's fhall 'fcape the autumn's tainted For, doom'd to ftain the pontiff's knife divine, On Algidus' hoar top, or th' Alban plain,

The victim feeds, it ne'er belongs to thes" To tempt with blood of kids the honiehold train, With fprigs of myrtle deck'd and rosemary. No gifts fo foon as pious cates will gain

The Lares, when the hand from guilt is free.

Sutton Coldfield, June 3.

VERSES

PRINTED AT THE BOTTOM OF THE YEARLY BILL OF MORTALITY

Of the Town of Northampton, Dec. 21. 1787. Supposed to be written by the worthy and ingenious Author of the TASK and other Poems. Pallida Mors æquo pulfat pede pauperum tabernas Regumque turres.

Pale Death with equal foot strikes wide the door Of Royal halls, and hovels of the poor.

HILE thirteen moons faw fmoothly

WHIL

run

The Nen's barge-laden wave, All thefe, life's rambling journey done, Have found their home-the grave. Was man (frail always) made more frail Than in foregoing years? Did famine, or did plague prevail,

That fo much death appears? No; these were vigorous as their fires, Nor plague nor famine came; This annual tribute Death requires, And never waves his claim. Like crowded forest-trees we ftand, And fome are mark'd to fall; The axe will fmite at God's command, And foon fhall fmite us all. Green as the bay-tree, ever green, With its new foliage on, The gay, the thoughtlefs, have I feen; I pafs'd-and they were gone, Read, ye that run, the awful truth

With which I charge my page;
A worm is in the bud of youth,

And at the root of age.
No prefent health can health infure,

For yet an hour to come;
No med'cine, though it often cure,
Can always balk the tomb.
And oh! that (humble as my lot,
And fcorn'd as is my ftrain *)

All tribes befide of Indian name
That gloffy fhine or vivid flame,
Where rifes, and where fets the day,
Whate'er they boast of rich or gay
Contribute to the gorgeous plan,
Proud to advance it all they can.

This plumage, neither dashing show'r,
Nor blafts that shake the dripping bow'r,
Shall drench again or difcompofe,
But, fcreen'd from ev'ry storm that blows,
It wears a splendour ever new,
Safe with protecting Montagu.

To the fame Patronefs refort (Secure of favour at her court) Strong Genius, from whofe forge of thought Forms rife, to quick perfection wrought, Which, though new-born, with vigour move Like Pallas fpringing arm'd from Jove→→ Imagination, fcatt'ring round Wild rofes over furrow'd ground While labour of his frowns beguile, And teach Philofophy a fmile

Wit, flashing on Religion's fide,
Whofe fires to facred Truth applied
The gem though luminous before
Commend to human notice more,
Like fun-beams on the golden height
Of fome tall temple playing bright-

Well-tutor'd Learning, from his books
Difimifs'd with grave, nor haughty looks,
Their order on his fhelves exact,
Nor more harmonious or compact
Than that to which he keeps confin'd
The various treafures of his mind-
All these to MONTAGU's repair
Ambitious of a fhelter there.

There, Genius, Learning, Fancy, Wit,
Their ruffled plumage, calm, refit,
(For ftormy troubles loudest roar'
Around their flight who highest foar)
And in her eye and by her aid
Shine fafe, without a fear to fade.

She thus maintains divided fway
With yon bright Regent of the Day.
The plume and poet both, we know,

I may not teach in vain.

So prays your Clerk, with all his heart;

And, ere he quits the pen,

Begs you at once to take bis part, An anfwer all- -AMEN!

And fhe, the work of Phoebus aiding, Both Poet faves and Plume from fading.

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THE QUESTION ANSWERED.
A FRAGMENT.
-Facit indignatio verfum

Qualemcunque poteft.

WOULD I defcribe a preacher, fuch

as Paul, [own, "Were he on earth, would hear, approve and "Paul fhould himself direct me. I would trace "His masterstrokes, and draw from his de"fign.

"I would exprefs him fimple, grave, fincere, "In doctrine uncorrupt, in language plain, "And plain in manners: decent, folemn,

"chafte;

"And natural in gefture: much imprefs'd "Himself, as confcious of his awful charge, "And anxious mainly that the flock he feeds "Ma feel it too. Affectionate in look,

"And

MR. URBAN,

May 30. A copy of the Maid of Orleans, of Monf. de Voltaire, falling accidentally into my hands, I have been induced to attempt an imitation, rather than a tranflation, of the First Canto. "He was" (fays a Critic, whofe words I remember, but whose name I forget) "a wri"ter over whofe memory Modesty must "blush, Religion figh, and Charity drop a "tear." That decency is too often facrificed to merriment, and that the nobleft faculties of the mind have been prostituted to impiety and lewdness, has been frequently but vainly lamented: if I have, in the prefent

inftance, endeavoured to render this hitherto forbidden guest admiffible into good company; if I have tried to feparate wit and fine fentiment from irreligion and indecency; the defign will, I hope, in fome degree, excufe the deficiency of the execution. I fhall only add, that as the fubject of the poem takes place during the most brilliant æra of British hiftory, a fentiment of Patriotism guided my pen, and attached me still stronger to the fubject.

Fortia Fata Patrum.

I.

X.

The loyal Agnes to her monarch kind,
Relax'd, nor Charles in long fufpence repin'd;
That tedious court which cruel maids approve,
Princes and Kings make rapid ftrides in love.
XI.

Trufty Bonneau th' enraptur'd lovers bore,
Safe from keen Scandal's penetrating eyes,
To a fair caftle on the banks of Loire,
Whofe rural scenes refembled Paradise.
XII.

At court Bonneau was held in high repute,
To the King's pleasure an obedient imp;
Myfterious, trufty, filent as a mute;
Plain country folks would call the rogue a
pimp.

XIII

II.

The pow'rs of France, by England trodden down,

Were to new conquefts by this Virgin led: She fav'd the honor of the Gallic crown, Andtwin'd fresh laurels round herSovereign's head.

III.

Fler's was the task to rouze the tardy King, To wake her Monarch from his am'rous trance,

To burft the filken chains which pleasures bring,

And make him quit the goblet for the launce.
IV.

She, 'neath a female form and coarse attire,
Had heart like heroes, fung in antient fong;
Many may foftnefs, gentleness admire;
But Joan was tout, and as a lion strong.

V.

All must with wonder hear what I affert, Read with furprize the tale. I fing of here, How the, 'midit magic, war, and love, unhurt, Did keep unloos'd her virgin zone a year.

VI.

Of keen defires, which many a tedious hour Has deeply ftung, the pointed rapt'rous kifs, The eye that speaks, the tongue without the pow'r.

XIV.

Alternate struggles heave her lab'ring breast,
Love and her virgin pride alternate beat,
'Till pride, by warmth of paffion closely prest,
Gives to great Love a victory compleat.

XV.

On poignant viands feaft the youthful pair, Whilft varied tones the voice and string afford, To fing of heroes, who to beauties rare Refign'd their crown, their glory, and their fword.

XVI. [fong, Rich fparkling wine was mingled with the Wine fills the head and heart with vivid glee; And thence exhaling thro' the nimble tongue, Burfts forth in wit and brilliant repartee. [To be continued in our next; when Mr. W. HAMILTON REID's Ode to Reflexion, with many other Poetical Favours, shall be inferted.]

EPIGRAM OF POSIDIPPUS TRANSLATED

At Tours beheld a Damfel paffing fair:
This Prince delighted much in dance and plays,
And Agnes Sorrel was his partner there.

VII.

Sure ne'er was form'd a maid in beauty's mold, More apt the force of female charms to prove! Who could thofe eyes,that fnowy neck.behold, Nor feel the melting exftacy of love?

Whofe flow'ry fide a chryftal riv'let laves,

Pleas'd with th' illufion of the glafly scene, The heedlefs dreamer funk amid the waves. When from the ftream the fon the mother drew,

And clafp'd the dying favorite to her breaft; The languid boy his downy pillow knew, And clos'd his eyes to everlasting reft.

TH

HE Committee, to whom was referred the petition of the people called Quakers, in favour of the diftreffed Africans and their defcendants, and alio that from divers inhabitants of the city and county of Philadelphia on the fame fubject,

Report, That, having paid all the attention to the fubject-matter of the faid petitions which its importance feemed to require, it appears to your Committee, that although the A&t, entitled An At for the gradual abolition of flavery," has been attended with very falutary effects, it is not fufficiently calculated to anfwer all the be nevolent purpofes which the legislature had in view, and which juftice and humanity call for.

The fubject, important as it is, was in the fcience of legiflation in fome degree new and anexplored; and experience evinces, that in fuch cafes the utmost stretch of human wi dom is inadequate to the arduous task of guarding against all the mifchiefs and fubtile evafions which artful and unprincipled men are too apt to embrace. Hence it is, that perfons of this defcription, unmindful of that rule which commands, that "whatfoever we would that men fhould do unto us, we fhould do even fo to them," have, as your Committee are credibly informed, in a variety of inftances, and in contraven tion of the refolution of Congrefs of the 20th of October, 1784, by which that auguft body did, for themfelves and their constituents, firmly agree, and affociate under the facred ties of virtue, honour, and love of their country," that they would neither import, nor purchase, any Slave imported after the first day of Decem ber then next, but would wholly difcontinue the Slave Trade, and would neither be concerned in it themfelves, or hire their veffels, or fell their commodities or manufactures to thofe who thould be concerned in it," equipped and fitted out from the Port of Philadelphia, veffels provided with hand-cuffs, and military implements, in order to fir up and arm the Princes of Africa to wage war against each other, for the encouragement and fupport of an unrighteous traffick in human flesh, a traffick by which husbands torn from their wives, and wives from their husbands, parents from their children, and children from their parents, are fold as Captive Slaves, into a long and cruel bondage.

That if the declaration contained in our Bill of Rights, "That all men are born equally free and independent," or that in the Act of Independence, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable GENT. MAG. June, 1788.

rights, among which are life, liberty, and the purfuit of happiness," is founded in truth; and more efpecially, if the whole race of men are created by one God for the fame noble purposes; and if he will, as we are taught to believe," avenge the injuries of his people;" it appears to your Committee, that the petitioners speak but the Divine Will, in requesting that this evil be done away from the land.

That to your Committee it alfo appears, that the faid act is defective, and requires amendments in the following particulars:

ft, It does not prohibit the owners of Slaves from felling them from their wives, or their husbands, their parents, or their children, into diftant parts, and even into foreign countries,

2d, It ordains no punishment for those men ftealers, who, by fraud or violence, feize and nurry into d ftant countries, and perpetual bondage, Free Negroes and Mulat

toes,

3d, It provides, that Negroes or Mulattoes, who should be born of Slaves, after the paffing of the faid act, fhould be free, on their attaining the age of 28 years; but does not provide again their being fent into neighbouring #tates, or foreign countries, in order to deprive them of that liberty to which they would be entitled here; nor does it guard against Slaves who are pregnant being fent out of the State till after their delivery, fo that their iffee may be held in flavery during life.

4th, I provides, that all Negro and MuIntro flaves who fhould be brought into this State fhould be free, with exception among others of fech as fhould attend their owner when travelling through, or fojourning in it, without being detained here for fix months; but does not fuficiently guard against the citizens of this State, or others, fending ther flives out of the State, fhortly before the end of fix months, and then bringing them back, whereby the faid act is in a great meature evaded.

To your Committee therefore it appears, that the frequency of thefe and other mifchiefs, contrary to the fpirit of the faid act, and the principles on which it is founded, require fome further aid of the aw to check what humanity is too often inadequate to perform.

They therefore beg leave to offer the following refolution, viz. Refolved,

That a Committee, be appointed to bring in a bill to explain and amend the act entitled "An Act for the gradual abolition of Slavery."

ORI