Both kindred and country are themes to extol, For, perhaps, none except his fond self will admit Or a masculine beard for a female is fit, Or that carbuncles mend a fair face. This impulfe, methinks, is most kindly ordain'd: What rude favage clans to our fhores would be gain'd, If feminine beauty to all were the fanie, But their want of true ornament some would proclaimAs a ring, or a bone-through the nofe. The Efquimaux prizes his dear native home, The Hottentot too does the same; And the former prefers his rude hut to the dome, Aye, and proudly they vaunt their respective delights, The one boasts his prowess in tomahawk fights, When national vigour in arms is the theme, Let us look at our true British Tar: That Frenchmen fhould threaten-to him is a dream, And he's glum-that they keep off fo far; "For," fays Jack, "if fo be that they start from their holes, This prejudice furely is dear to us all, LEANDER. A PETER As A PETER-PINDARIC ODE. BY OLD NICK. S Joan, one eve, according to the plan Trudg'd to a neighb'ring houfe-the Granby- She found him, as the story goes, With feet In kennel, taking a comfortable doze. "What, holla, John!" the Dame now cries, At the well-known voice, John op'd his eyes; But, As the Poet fays, their fenfe was shut : He mumbled out, his teeth between,. Take, take away the light." THE LAST BOTTLE.. THE TOPING PUNSTER'S ADDRESS TO HIS LAST BOTTLE OF PINE RUM. BY OLD NICK. Si quid adhuc ego fum, muneris omne tui eft. I TRISTIUM lib. I. Eleg. VI GRIEVE to fee thee go so fast, Oft, Oft, oft have I with rapture glow'd, T THE BRUSH-MAKERS. BY THE SAME. Κοτέει και τεκτονς τεκτων -HESIOD. WO brufh-makers of fmall renown, Long had been rivals in the town:- And then I makes 'em up myfelf; 66 I'll tell you, friend," old Dellinan faid "I fteals my brushes ready made!" *It appears that our Toper's Bottle enjoyed the fame advantage as the ancient Greeks 66 -Graiis dedit ore rotundo Mufa loqui."-HOR. "Lofe not a drop of the immortal man."-DRYDEN. σε Εκ δε πιω τον ερωτα.”ΒιοN's Epit. "Suck my last breath, and catch my flying foul." 1 POPE'S Abelard. THE THE SALISBURY CHANTER. [From the General Evening Poft.] IN Salbury cathedral, fam'd, He fet at nought all modulation; In pity you'll be heard the while you pray; LEANDER. ON THE CANAL CUT BY THE SIDE OF THE SOUTHAMPTON WATER, SOUTHAMPTON's wife fons found their river so large, Though 't would carry a hip, 't would not carry a barge; So wifely determin'd to cut by its fide A ftinking canal, where finall veffels might glide: To admit his two cats-the one large, t' other fmall- I INNS INNS FOR BALLOON PASSENGERS. BY JOSEPH MOSER, ESQ. [From the European Magazine.] WE have often heard of caftles in the air: probably many of my readers may have been Speculators in thefe kind of buildings, which feem to poffefs advantages not always concomitant to more fubftantial erections, as they are not, in the first instance, attended with the rifk and expenfe of thofe whofe foundations are upon the earth; and, fecondly, every man is his own architect, and, confequently, avoids the trouble aud litigation which, in former ages (for I would by no means infinuate that fuch things ever happen in the prefent), have been known to arife from the active zeal, and difinterested affiduity, of perfons to whom the ex.ecution of great and elegant defigns hath been delegated. The ingenious fect of castle-builders have therefore, from the time of Ariftophanes (how long preceding him it is not material to inquire), been extremely numerous; and, while terreftrial materials are fo dear, as, in contradiftinction to other builders, they work cheap, I intended to have patriotically propofed, that they fhould, in the modern jargon, have been fyftematized, organized, and made a part of fome national inftitute, perhaps in petto, which, I conceive, would have been as ufeful as fome other branches of a Society of that nature actually in existence; but upon looking at fome late Tranfactions, I found that many of thefe foaring geniufes have anticipated me, and have it now in contemplation to defcend from their fublime altitudes, and to place their, at prefent," cloud-capt towers and gorgeous palaces" upon terra firma, to the great improvement of the metropolis. Leaving them, therefore, to the execution of their great defigns, which, I have a prefentiment, will, like noble and virtuous actions, bring with them their own rewarde |