"Yet then shall calm reflection bless the

night,

"When liberal Pity dignify'd delight; "When Pleasure fir'd her torch at Virtue's flame,

Difdain th' applauses of a mortal stage,
And let a nobler fcene thy mind engage;
Where, life's hard arduous race with glory

run,

And its important duties justly done,

I am, &c.

DAMON TO PHILOMEL.

AS love fick Damon lay along

Beneath a melancholy shade,

Sooth'd by the nightly warbler's long,
Thus the unhappy shepherd said:
Sweet Philomel! who haunt'it the grove
Where I lament my wretched fate,
Our joint complaint, alas! is love,

The difference of our fortune great.

Relief to me no feasons bring,

For ever doom'd to figh in vain;

But you, fweet Bird! who mourn'st in fpring,

In fummer's pleasure lose your pain. Already from yon blooming spray,

Your willing mate your plaint returns ; Already seems to chide your stay,

And with an equal ardour burns,
Go, Philomel, accomplish all

The joy that happy love beftows;
Obey the tender warbler's call,
And leave poor Damon to his woes.
And when the next returning year

Again invites you to the grove;
Sweet Philomel, you'll find me here,
Complaining till of hapless love.

TO THE MEMORY OF

RICHARD WEST, ESQ

D.G.

Who died at POPE'S in HERTFORDSHIRE, June 1, 1742, after a tedious and painful Indifpofition, in the 26th year of his age.

knave

WHILE forfeited with life, each hoary
Grows here immortal, and eludes the grave;
Thy virtues prematurely met their fate,
Cramp'd in the limit of too fhort a date.

Thy mind, not exercis'd so oft in vain,
In health was gentle, and compos'd in pain:
Succeffive trial ftill refin'd thy foul,
And plastic patience perfected the whole.

A friendly afpect, not fuborn'd by art;
An eye, which look'd the meaning of thy
heart;

A tongue, with fimple truth and freedom fraught,

The faithful index of thy honeft thought.

Thy pen difdain'd to feek the fervile ways Of partial cenfure, and more partial praise ; Thro' every tongue it flow'd in nervous eafe, With fenfe to polish, and with wit to please.

No

Have fhook the trembling world, now die

away

In wishes foft; the froth of heighten'd pride Beats on the rocks, and beats itfelf to nothing;

The pomp of kings, the panegyrick breath
Of foothing flatterers, and menial crouds,
Of envy felf-distracting foftly feem
The voice of flander, the deftructive blatts
(Like dying thunders in a diftant cloud)
Death, rigid Death impartially declares,
Gently to vanish from th' attentive ear.
That man is nothing but an heap of duft,
Clay, cold, infenfible; wipe from thy cheek
O Man! the foft, emalculating tear,
For die thou must; just as by nature ftreams
In filver mazes roll their eafy tide

A tribute to the main; thus art thou bora
A fhort-liv'd glory pre-ordain d to die.
The thought of obfequies, convulfions,

groans,

'Tis that distracts my foul. The kifs of death

Is foft and harmlefs, golden reft attends it, And foon diffolves the fretful dream of life. Nature's great law is death. As riding flames

Seek their congenial place, and mount to Heav'n;

Thus hatte we to our end; the bloom of youth

Expells our infant years, then hoary age Encroaches on the man, and fluts the fcene. Alas! th' impartial grave no diff rence yields 'Twixt king and peafant; where's the mo

narch now?

Faft by the tyrant fleeps the tyrant's flave;

What luftre now attends the heal that bore
A regal crown, enchas'd with India's pearl?
What Mach aval, or what Sejanus here
Rules with a nod, or with a whisper kills?
What check impurpled with a rofy blush
Vies with the new-born glories of the morn?
Ah! where's Lucinda, and the beauteous
form

That boafted once a paradife of charms?
Alas! he's mingled with the vulgar duft,
Clofe to what most she fear'd, deformity;
(The life, warmth, fostness, fragrance of her
beauty

Diffolv'd, and moulder'd into putrid earth And worms impure;) her once inchanting

voice

charms,

A prey

To bleak Siberia's ifle.

Borough, St. Saviour's Church-yard.

P. S. In the measure of the verfe, and

VII.

Attracted by that dulcet voice,

The Mufes hatte along; Their new affociate inftant own, And jocund join the fong.

VIII.

Meanwhile, in yonder hallow'd grove,
To deck thine auburn hair,
Of laurels, twin'd with myrtles fweet,
New wreaths will I prepare.
Greenwich, Dec. 13.

THE SIMILE ILLUSTRATED.

FROM Greenland's fhore a jovial crew, With eager hopes of gain in view, Launched forth with spreading fails. The leffening land eludes the fight, Danger and risk were their delight,

Their trade was catching whales.

And "Oh, my Friends!" a warrior cries, "What fcenes of transport strike my eyes, "If fortune speeds our dart ;

Love shall reward our plighted truth, "Plenty and peace fhall join with youth,

"To blefs each Greenland heart.

"What though black night enshrouds our

land,

"The precious means are near at hand, "Our numerous lamps to fill:

"The fun to diftant regions flies,

"Kind nature all our wants fupplies,

"And leaves us tranquil still"—

"Quick man the boat-a prize! a prize!" At once the bold harpooner cries,

The ready crew obey.

Bold on the prow he takes his ftand,
Rears high the weapon in his hand,
And ftrikes th' unconscious prey.
Through the cleft bofom of the main,
With mingled anger and difdain,

The monster takes his courfe;
The fkilful mariners in vain
His headlong motions would restrain,
And check his furious force.

But foon, alas! the cord is spent,
The boat beneath the wave is bent,
And pull'd with fwiftnefs on;
One moment more, and all is loft!
The cord is cut-their hopes are cross'd-
The wish'd-for prize is gone.

You who in wedlock hope to find
The pleasures of a virtuous mind,
Confider well my fable :

If ere you're fix'd in Hymen's chain,`
You find the nymph false, vicious, vain,
Defift while yet you're able.

Youth madly blind to future cares,
Like wax th' impreffive folly bears,
Nor thinks of future woe;
With ardour courts the wav'ring gale,
To fome rich prize directs the fail,
And ftrikes a random blow.
But if with foolish fondness. blind,
Ambitious hopes still fire his mind,
To wed the fpecious bride;
His crazy bark, in queft of prey,
Is dragg'd where foily leads the way,
Then finks beneath the tide.

CAIUS FITZURBAN.

THE

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 27. THE Chancellor of the Exchequer, attended by feveral Members of the Houk of Commons, prefented a Bill from that House for continuing for a limited time the Restrictions of Cafh Payments, &c. at the Bank of England; and Mr. Hobart prefented the Land and Malt Tax Bills, which were feverally read a first

time.

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 29. The various Bills upon the Table were read in their respective ftages. Several of thefe were the third readings.

Mr. Steele returned the Bank Reftriction Bill from the Houfe of Commons, who had agreed to the Amendments made by their Lordships to the Bill.

Mr. Hobart prefented from the House of Commons the following Bills: The Scots Bank Note Bill, the Cambrick Import Prohibition Bill, a Bill for continuing the A&t for the better Regulation, &c. of the iffue of Promiffory Notes, and a Bil for continuing the Act of laft Sion, for the Prevention and Punishment, &c. of Attempts to feduce from their Duty and Allegiance any of his Majesty's Forces by Sea or Land.

Several private Bills were prefented by diferent Gentlemen. Thele, together with two public Bills from the Houfe of Commons, were read a first time.

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 30. The Royal Affent was given by Commiffion to the following public Bills:

The Land Tax, the Malt Tax, the Bank Restriction, the Scots Bank Notes, and the Cambrick Import Prohibition Bills.

FRIDAY, DECEMBER I.

The feveral Bills on the Table were forwarded in their respective tages; after which their Lordthips adjourned till to-morrow, when a Commission takes place, in order to give the Royal Affent to certain Bills which have paffed both Houses.

VOL. XXXIII. JAN. 1798.

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 2.

The Royal Affent was given by Commiffion to the Bill for continuing the A&t of laft Seffion, for the Prevention and Punishment of Attempts to feduce any of his Majefty's Forces by Sea and Land from their Duty and Allegiance; and alfo to the Bill for the better Regulation of the Iffue of Promiffory Notes.

The Lords Commiffioners on this occafion were the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Lord Chancellor, and Eall Spencer.

The Bills upon the Table were forwarded in their refpective stages, and fome arrangements were made with refpect to the hearing of Appeals.

THE ROYAL PROCESSION.

The Duke of Portland prefented a Meffage from his Majefty, intimating his Royal intention to visit the Cathedral of St. Paul, with his two Houses of Parliament, on Tuesday the 19th inst. to return thanks to the Divine Providence, &c. &c.

His Grace then moved a fuitable Addrefs to his Majefty upon the occafion together with a long tring of Refolutions refpecting the attendance of their Lordfhips, the order of the proceffion, &c. &c. all which were unanimoufly agreed to by the House.

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 13.

Mr. Hobart, from the Houfe of Commons, prefented the Bill for regulating the Exportation of Corn, which was read a first time.

A few private Bills were alfo brought up, and read a first time.

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 20. The Houfe went into a Committee upon the Bill to amend the Act of last Seflion, for admitting Roman Catholics to ferve in the Scotch Militia; which having gone through, with two others, their Lordships adjourned.