fneer,

Mifter monarch be ftill, we are all ' equal here.

'Life's miferies long I was forc'd to

• abide,

By the feafons fore pelted, fore pelt'ed by pride:

And tho' clad in ermine, yet you've 'been diftrefs'd,

'Both our cares now are over,-so let

bauch and Difeafe,

Putrefactions of Sloth, or Vice run to

'the lees.

By Luxury's peftilence health is laid 'waite:

And all they can boaft is,-They're 'poifon'd in Tafte.

'Tis true, cries Crawlina, the queen of the worms,

They make upon earth immenfe noife with their forms,

"'Pon onner, with beauties tho' fo much • I deal,

On not one in ten can I make a good • meal.

When we chose to regale, on the dainties of charms,

We formerly fed on necks, faces and

' arms;

Now varnish envenoms their tainted 'complexions,

A fine woman's features fpread fatal infections.

'Not a worm of good tafte, and bon ton, I dare vouch,

A morfel of fashion-made beauties 'will touch.

A quality toaft we imported last week, Two maggots, my fervants, dy'd eat' in her cheek.'

Very odd, quoth a critic, worms hold fuch difcourfe.

Very odd, quoth the author, that men fhould talk worse. Like reptiles, we crawl upon earth for

a term,

Take wing for a while, then defcend

to a worm.

Dan Pope declares all human race, to be worms:

Maids, miffes, wives, widows, all maggotly forms.

But of worms, and worm feeding no more we will preach, men mind the leon that maggots here teach.

Let

Why you grow warm?and I am hot;
Thus each a-like with paffion glows,
And words come first, and after blows.
Friend Jerkin, had an income clear
Some fifteen pounds or more a-year,
And rented on the farming plan,
Grounds at much greater fums per ann.
A man of confequence, no doubt,
'Mongft his neighbours round about;
He was of frank and open mind,
Too honest to be much refin'd;
Would fmoak his pipe, and tell his tale,
Sing a good fong, and drink his ale.
His wife was of another mould;
Her age was neither young nor old,
Her features strong, but fomewhat plain,
Her air not bad, but rather vain,
Her temper neither new nor ftrange;
A woman's very apt to change:
What he moft hated, was conviction,
What the most lov'd, flat contradiction;
A charming housewife ne'ertheless,

Tell me a thing the could not dress,
Soups, hathes, pickles, puddings, pyes,
Nought came amifs-the was fo wife;
For the, bred twenty miles from town,
Had brought a world of breeding down,
And Cumberland had feldom feen
A farmer's wife with fuch a mein:
She could not bear the found of dame,
-No-Miftrefs Jerkin was her name;
She could harangue with wond'rous
grace,

Starlings, my dear; they're Thrushes child;

Nay, now but look, confider wife They're Starlings-no-upon my life; Sure I can judge as well as you,

I know a Thrush and Starling 100 :
Who was it fhot them, you or I?
They're Starlings Thrushes-zounds
you lye;

Pray, Sir, take back your dirty word,
I fcorn your language as your bird,
It ought to make a husband blush,
To treat a wife fo 'bout a Thrush;
Thruth, Cicely, yes, a Starling-no
The lye again, and then a blow,
Blows carry strong, and quick convic
tion,

And mar the powers of contradiction.
Peace foon enfu'd, and all was well,
It was imprudence to rebel;
Or keep the ball up, of debate,
Against thefe arguments of weight.
A year roll'd on in perfect eafe,
'Twas as you like, and what you please,
Till in its course, and order due,
Came March the twentieth, feventy-

two:

Quoth Cicely, this is charming life,
No tumults now, no blows, no ftrife;
What fools we were, this day last year,
Lord, how you beat me then, my dear;
Sure it was idle and abfurd
To wrangle fo about a bird,
A bird not worth a fingle Rush-
A Starling-no, my love, a Thrush,
That I'll maintain that I'll deny,
-You're wrong, good husband-wife,
you lye.

Again the felf-fame wrangle rofe,
Again the lye, again the blows:
Thus every year (true man and wife)
Enfues the fame domeftic ftrife:
Thus, every year this quarrel ends,
They argue, fight and bufs, and friends.
'Tis Starling, Thrush, and Thrush and
Starling,

You dog, you b; my dear, my darl

ing.

The

The MINUTES of the Select Committee, appointed by the House of COMMONS, to enquire into EASTINDIA Affairs.

(Continued from page 22. VOL. II.)

2 Are thefe all the letters that were fhewn you?A. I can't fay. Thefe I havé seen.

2. Whether you know that the Daich Governor acknowledged the writing of these letters to Meer Jaffer?——A. I geither know whether it was asked him, or whether he ever

declared it

2 Were thofe letters figned?A. I don't recollect. They were fealed on the cover.

2. Are you convinced that these lettets were written by the Dutch Go vernor ?—A, I was convinced they

were.

2. What do you apprehend to be the reafon that thefe letters were not fhewn to the Select Committee, and why they were not tranfmitted as part of their proceedings?A. I believe they were fhown to every one of the Committee feparately, but not collecsively.

2. Why were they not fhewn to the Committee in their collective capacity?A. I cannot align a certain reafon for the conduct of Mr Vanfittart; but I fuppofe he did not think them of confequence.

2. What do you apprehend to be the reafon that copies of them were not tranfmitted to the Directors?-A. I can but give the fame anfwer as to the last queftion.

2. Do you know whether they were tranfmitted to the Directors or not?. I can't fay.

When were the first hoftilities commenced between the Dutch and English? and by whom?A. I can't recollect.

2. Whether there were any hoftilities between the two Companies, previous to the Dutch fleet coming into the river?A. No hoftilities. Some difagreements there had always been

in our commercial tranfactions, which were generally accommodated.

Do you think- the Nabob was bound by treaty to prevent any fhips or troops of the Dutch coming into Bengal? A. Certainly I did, by the fecond article of the treaty.

2. Whether the two Companies were in fuch a ftate, as that the Dutch were regarded as enemies to the Englith. They certainly would have acted as our enemies, if they had been permitted to introduce feven or eight hundred Europeans.

Do you know the general ftrength of the Dutch in their factories before this operation? I should ima gine, that in Chinfura, Coffimbuzar, and Patna, and all their fubordinates, there were about 150 military men.

2. Whether the Dutch, before the affair of Fulta, publicly difavowed any hoftile intentions towards the English?

A. A correfpondent paffed between the English and Dutch upon that occafion, but I cannot exactly recollect their public profeffons. We had no doubt of their intentions.

Q. How long was you of the Select Committee before the revolution?-A. From the time of Lord Clive's departure to the period of the revolution.

2. Did you, at the time Mr Holwell was Prefident, adopt Mr Caillaud's reafons against the revolution?

-A. I don't recollect that we had any meetings as a Select Committee upon that fubject. The whole was carried on in the correfpondence between Gen. Caillaud and Mr Holwell; never, to my recollection, before the Select Committee.

2. Was you one of the Select Committee when Coffim Ally Khan made the offer of twenty lacks to the Governor and Council?A. I was, and was prefent when that offer was made. I confirm every part of Gen, Caillaud's evidence upon that occafion, with this difference, that when the paper was returned, Mr Vanfittart obG 2

ferved,

ferved, that we were labouring for the peace and fafety of the country; that the exigencies of the ftate were preffing, and that we would not on any account receive this offer; but that if, when the country was fettled, he found himself in a fituation fo to do with convenience to his affairs, he would then be at full liberty to gratify his friends as he thought proper. Mr Vanfittart further added, "I will for my part, under fuch circumftances, freely accept any token of your regard, and I should fuppofe the other gentlemen will do the fame." Mr Vanfittart returned the paper to Coffim Ally Khan; who feemed uneafy, and faid he apprehended we were not fo much his friends as he wifhed. Mr Vanfittart then gave him the ftrongest affurances of our fincerity, and took this opportunity to prefs a donation or gift from him of five Jacks of rupees to the Company, as a help towards the reduction of Pondicherry. This was granted and paid the very first money, which was within a very few weeks after the tranfaction, to the best of my recollection. 2. Do you know what acknowledgement Coffim Ally Khan made the Governor and Council, any time after he was placed on the Mufnud? A. None that I knew as a Governor and Committee.

2. Do you know of any acknowledgement to any individual?

A. As to myself, and as in the courfe of my reply to this question, I fhall have occafion to mention my difmiflion from the Company's fervice, a circumftance which, if not explained by me, may leave an impreffion of culpability on my part, I beg leave to inform the Committee, that the caufe of my difmiffion was, my having figned a letter to the Court of Directors as one of the Council among many others, wherein we expoftulated with them on what we thought harsh and undeferved treatment. This letter gave the Directors such umbrage, that without the least regard to the merits or length of our fervices, every man in India who figned it was immediatly difmiffed. I ftate this as the fole caufe of my difmiffion; and in proof thereof I refer to our general letter to the Court of Directors of December 29. 1759, and the 147th paragraph, which contains the offence; and to that of the court of Directors dated Jan. 21. 1761, and the first paragraph, which affigns the cause thereof, and which I hope the Commmittee will indulge me to have read.

(To be continued).

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Dec. 26.

POLAN D. Warfaw, Dec. 3. Several letters from Pruffia fay, that a Pruffian fifcal has been all over the new acquifitions of that court, and has announced to all the fenators of Polish Pruffia, that they

affembly of the fenate, under pain of having their effects and prerogatives confifcated. As thefe fenators will be fummoned by the King and the republic to affift at that affembly, one may judge of the embarraffment they are in about it.

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