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Howe'er we draw alternate breath,
Sleep's but a temporary death.
The fleeper, then, whoe'er he be,
A murderer is in degree.
Nature demands but little rest,
Tho' much with daily toils oppreft;
He, then, that lengthens out repose,
Her into much diforder throws;
O'er the blunt fenfe a torpor fpreads,
Which more than death the wife man dreads;
Lamans the fpirit, born to foar
Where Newton only foar'd before;
Unbraces every nerve of strength,
And all enfeebles us at length.
Time's a vast loan to mortals lent,
Which but difcreetly should be spent ;
Good works the int'reft Heav'n demands,
A wakeful eye, and active hands:
He, then, that flumbers time away,
Refufes his arrears to pay;

Arrears that, with just rigour fought,
Would make poor mortals worfe than naught;
He obftinately fhuts his eyes,

And wakes a bankrupt to the skies.
Your moralifts in theory say,

Why should the night incroach on day?
It fure looks fomewhat like a crime,
To live but half our deftin'd time.
To feep, each manly care dismist,
Is not to live, but to exist.
Life, at the beft, is but a span,
Yet that how oft curtail'd by man!
Life's unkind fhortnefs we lament,
Yet make it shorter by confent;

Lofe hours and months and years in sleep,
Nor o'er them, like the Roman, weep.
Can man more foolishly behave,
Shortly to lumber in the grave;
Where in dread rueful calm he may
With reptiles ages dose away;
Till both eternally diffever,

Man rouz'd by fate to wake for ever?
How worse than madmen we behave,
Daily our bed to make our grave!"
How fpeciously the story told!
Reverfe the medal, and behold!
To rife with the first matin fong,
Is life officious to prolong.
And what is life, in perfect beauty?
Atract of erring from our duty.
Man then by waking nothing wins,
Ba: fwells his catalogue of fins;
Adds deeper crimson to his guilt,
And drives the dagger to the hilt.
For, foon as wakers we commence,
Rafon we flight, and live to fenfe.
Befides, no medium we can keep ;
We must be wicked, or must sleep.
Then, our apology how strong,
Howe'er fleep's ftupor we prolong!
Yet might it further gather strength,
Proportion'd to the night's dull length,
Did but the Mufe, till morning beams,
Infpire us with ecftatic dreams;

TOL. XXVL

Ecftatic dreams of glorious things, Claret, ragouts, and fiddle-strings.

"But who is this, to merit blind, Who dares to fatirize mankind? What noble lineage can he boast? Has he travers'd Europa's coaft? What mighty duke rang'd states about with, To-lofe what virtue they fet out with? In what school academic bred? In what fam'd fyftem deeply read? Beneath what fophift taught to think, And at Pierian font to drink? At what Gamaliel's footstool plac'd, To learn the principles of taste ? What fire Promethean has he stole, Not one bard damning, but the whole? What critic, at the midnight-lamp, Taught him the true fublime to stamp? Has he, to be admir'd for art, Some rhyming-grammar got by heart? Has S, from bufkins fprung. Inform'd him how to use his tongue? Has B, mechanically fir'd, His thoughts poffeft, and brain infpir'd? Or W, whofe employ to parfe is, Taught him the fecret to make verses? Say, what romantic child of fun With cobwebs would obfcure the fun? What pfeudo-critic thus prefumes On kindling fires to end in- fumes?"

Thou wafpish elf, with spleen o'er-run!
Thou Dennis's poetic fon!

Wouldst thou, vile pedant, make me vain?
Curfe, arm'd with spectacles, my strain.
An arrow thro' my liver fend?

Snatch quick, thy ftandish, and commend:
That me effectually would raise
To Johnson's excellence of praise;
This would to's bard's link me,
Or lower than a Codrus fink me.
If good the verfe, no matter tho'
The author were thy felf below;
If bad, no character nor station
Can refcue it from fwift damnation.

Look round mankind, thou dolt, and fee
What fate waits bards of high degree,
If Genius ne'er effulg'd a ray,
Around their laurel'd heads to play.
In what inglorious fpot reclufe
Now flumbers Dorfet's once-fam'd mufe?
Gone, Indies could not either fave,
To moulder with him in the grave.
But Pope fhall in his ftrains furvive,
While taste or feeling kept alive;
Shall be, till wit allied to station,
The pride and glory of our nation.
Right facile were the task to fhow it,
How falfely Rochester dubb'd poet!
Hence, tho' efcutcheons grac’d his name,
Expir'd foon his poetic fame;
Save that fome fill revere his muse,
In that pure font of taste the stews.
But of Plebeian race behold,
(His dollars too how quickly told !)
Dryden,

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Dryden, the standard of the age,
While mankind dote on Virgil's page.
Tho' poor in pelf, by wretches fought,
How rich in fentiment and thought!
What veins of genius glorious fhine
Thro' every maffy sterling line!
What rays of wit flash all about!
What flow'rs of fancy bloom throughout!
Thefe thall perpetuate his name,
The true-born fon of claffic fame;
When Wilmot's long remember'd not,
And Buckingham himfelf's forgot.
Nor ftrange thus various the requital,
To men without and with a title;
Each son of Genius, nobly born,
Titles conferr'd beholds with fcorn;
Nor, check'd in Glory's full career,
Would meanly floop to be a peer.
In Fame's bright lifts his name inroll'd,
With all the pomp of letter'd gold;
Would he affect to mould a lord
In fome poor lumber-swept record?

Rhyme on then, mortals; for the Mufe
Can much of fweet content infuse;
(Content, tho' no fantastic plume
Nods in the park, or drawing-room);
The brow from anxious cares unbind,
And throw a languor o'er the mind,
Akin, while fiercer raptures cloy,
To the mild equal touch of joy
While, hurried on to worfe from bad,
The giddy world around runs mad;
From wave to wave of folly tofs'd,
Their helm and anchor, reafon, loft ;
Sink down, abandon'd by relief,
O'erwhelm'd in the profound of grief;
On Senfe's fhallows headlong run,
By Paffion's furious blaft undone ;
Or on the rocks of Anguish dash,
Which black Defpair's fwoln furges lash:
The Mufe's fons, with placid gale,
Safely o'er life's rough ocean fail.
Ye mortals, then, thro' life that plod,
Whether you cat, or drink, or-nod;
To love or wine devote your time;
Keep the commandments all, and — rhyme.

To a LADY who was fo obligingly cruel as to take a thorn out of the author's finger.

A's Damon, late, the hedge-row's fruitage

fought,

A jealous thorn th' invading finger caught.
To Phillida he brings the wounded part,
And feeks th'affiftance of her dext'rous art.
Her dext'rous art extracts the pointed grief;
A dear-bought cure! a cruel, kind relief!
Shot from her eye, the wing'd unerring dart
A paffage found, and rankled at his heart.
For one light throb, unnumber'd, varying
pains
(veins.
Now boil his blood, and rage thro' all his
In depth of anguith be the filence broke,
And thus the kind, the cruel fair bespoke:

"Is this your friendship, doctress; this yo art?

To cure a finger, and to wound a heart?
What a delufive transfer this, of pain!
Oh that I had my throbbing thorn again!
Nor you alleviate, but increase my wo;
Then put me, forc'refs, into ftatu quo.

In ftrains like thefe we charge the fatal Which throws the gout upon a vital part. Sad victims to the healing drug we lie: Untouch'd, we'd live; thus cur'd, alas, die!

A fragment found among fome old manufcript¡ pers, that formerly belonged to Sir Edw Hungerford, who was in bis days fo famous. gallantry.

I Lov'd in juft proportion as I knew
And with my knowledge still my fonds

grew.

'Twas not an eye, a lip, a face, a hand,
Tho' each one fuch as might a heart comma
'Twas not the heav'nly music of thy tong
Tho' angels liften'd whilst my fair-one fur
No, 'twas the lafting beauties of thy mind
By all the graces temper'd and refin'd;
The honeft heart unpractis'd to deceive,
Skill'd, but as virtue bids, to joy, or grie
The foul by pure religion taught to glow
At others blifs, or melt at others wo:
These were the charms that firft my he

could move

From warmest friendship to the warmest k These were the charms-Catera defunt.

GE

ODE to HEALTH.

Enial Health! that lov'ft to dwell
'Mid the rural, wild retreat;
Where the balmy-breathing gale
Ay perfumes thy grafly feat:
Goddefs of the gladfome fimile,

On thy cheek the roses glow;
And thy winning words beguile
Each terrific form of wo.
Ever on the upland lawn,

Warbleft thou the vocal reed,
When the sofy-featur'd dawn
Beams upon the yellow mead:
Blithely dancing art thou seen
With the fwains, and sylvan maids,
When along the level green,

Eve her matron mantle spreads.
Goddefs! from the flow'ry wafte,
Hear a fimple fhepherd's prayer;
Hear, and let my Phoebe's breaft
All thy lenient bounty fhare!
And I ween no vulgar meed
If the warbling of my reed
Shall repay thy guardian care,

E'er avail'd to charm thine ear.
CALEDONI

Perthfire, 1763.

HISTORY.

With respect to POLAND, we give the
following articles verbatim.
"Hague, Feb. 20. By letters from War-
faw, dated the 9th ult. we learn, that
the election of a King of Poland will not
take place till the month of Auguft next.
According to the Polish conftitution,
there must be an extraordinary diet held
frit; and the Primate, for his own ad-
vantage, will prolong the interregnum as
much as he can. If the election be made
within twelve months from the King's
death, it is all the pacta conventa require."
"London, March 6. The Ruffian mini-
fler at Warsaw has received a letter from
the Czarina's refident at Conftantinople,
importing, that the Grand Signior had
declared, that he had adopted the views
of the courts of Petersburg and Berlin,
relative to the affairs of Poland; that is
to lay, to leave the Poles at full liberty
to chufe a King from among themselves.
There is reafon, however, to believe,
there is a party in that kingdom which
favours the houfe of Saxony. Prepara-
tions are making at Warfaw, as if a Saxon
prince were expected there foon."

the mean time the Jefuits, in whose church this scene of throat-cutting began, have demanded 3000 marks of filver for this pollution of their fanctuary: for, în the opinion of thefe Holy Fathers, nothing fo effectually effaces the ftain of iniquity and bloodfhed as pecuniary penance. If this reasonable demand is fatisfied, they intend to offer their church to Prince Jablonowski and his Tartars for the amicable meeting of the fame good company.

In the diets that have been affembled. in other parts of the kingdom, there have also been great divifions; and the con tending parties have chofen feparately deputies for the general diet; but the Primate has declared, that none of these deputies fhall be admitted, fuch factious elections being contrary to the laws and conftitutions of the republic. The candidates whofe pretenfions occafion these divifions are, Prince Poniatowski, whose intereft is efpoufed by the Czartorinski party, and Count Braniki, the Grand General of the Crown. This latter mentains obftinately his claim to royalty; and instead of obeying the orders that have been fent him, to march with the army under his command towards the frontiers of the kingdom, perfifts, it is faid, in his refolution to affemble thefe troops at Bialistock,this ordinary refidence. This obftinacy has induced the regency to have recourfe to the affiftance of foreign troops to force this nobleman to obedience; and it is affirmed, that the King of Pruffia has ordered a body of troops to march into Silefia, to be at hand to fupport the Poniatowski and Czartorinfki intereft'; which gathers ftrength daily, and will probably triumph over all oppofition. Count Poniatowski gave last week a fplendid ball, which coft him near 3000 ducats, and at which no cymetars were drawn, although the ladies and gentlemen had emptied above 800 bottles of choice tokay to warm their imaginations in the good cause."

"London, March 10. They write from Great Poland, of the 20th ult. that an action had happened near Pofen, between Count de Poniatowski's party, and a party attached to the house of Saxony, in which about 400 men were killed on both fides." "Warfaw, March 10. The provincial diets begin to grow tumultuous, and the How procedure of reafon and argument has already given place, in feveral of thefe affemblies, to fabre-logic. At the diet of Braclaw, this latter method of reafoning has fo prevailed, that a confiderable number of noblemen have been argued out of their eyes and nofes, and feveral out of their lives. To fpeak with out a figure, there has been a violent kene of bloodfhed in the city of Braclaw, in which the Prince Palatine Jablonowski would have been infallibly cut to pieces, From London we have the following had not one of the Czartorinski party article, of March 22. "By letters from made an extraordinary and fuccessful effort Hamburg we learn, that the court of to fave his life. Had this prince fallen PETERSBURG, though under the external the fray, his untimely fate would have afpect of union and tranquillity, is not been the confequence of his own violent exempt from divifion and difcord; and the and irregular proceedings: for under the political fyftem of her Imperial Majefty is pretext of a public entry, he disguised not determined with fuch evidence, as to 150 noblemen in the habit of foldiers, to prevent a multitude of conjectures, foundwhom he joined 300 Tartars, who were ed on ftriking appearances. After the to execute a project of a very different death of Peter III. the Emprefs, whether nature from that of a public entry. In from inclination or fear, feemed not to

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depart from the fyftem of that prince, though the followed it with more mode ration than he had done, and perhaps with less zeal than was confiftent with a fincere attachment to it. At prefent, the friends of France at that court are extremely active in ftrengthening their party; and they have certainly gained a new acceffion of ftrength by the promotion of Count Panin, who is now to perform the functions of vice-chancellor jointly with Prince Gallitzin. This nomination furprises many. Some confider it as defigned to form a counterbalance to the prince last mentioned, whofe miniftry in England is fuppofed to have attached him to that nation: others alledge, that the promotion of Count Panin is only defigned to alleviate the burden of that laborious employment to Prince Gallitzin, whofe long abfence from his native country renders it impoflible for him to acquire, all at once, the routine that is necefiary in that high office. Monf. Dupleix, who is charged with the education of the young Emperor, is not only a French man, and particularly recommended by the French miniftry to that important office; but is, moreover, a man of uncommon addrefs, of infinuating manners, and much more verfed in politics than in literature. This is certainly an advantage to the French fyftem. French learning, and French manners, are a natural introduction to French politics, as an attentive oblervation of what has patled in Europe these last twenty years abundantly proves."

From COPENHAGEN we have what follows, dated Feb. 13. "Among the many machines lately invented for the difcovery of the longitude, Mr Henry Schultz, a celebrated mechanic, has con trived a clock, by means of which the longitude may be discovered at fea. This elock thews at all times, either in the day or night, what the hour is at London, Paris, Copenhagen, and Petersburg, together with the increase and decrease of the moon, to the feconds of a minute, The ingenious inventor defigns to offer bimfelt a candidate for the reward affigned, by the feveral courts of Europe, for this important difcovery."

As to affairs in GERMANY, the concourfe of foreigners of diftinction at Frankfort, on occafion of electing a King of the Romans, is fo great, that according to advices received, fourteen British Lords, feveral Italian Marquiffes, fome French Cavaliers, and about twenty Ger

man Barons, have had the utmost diffi-culty to procure lodgings there. One may judge of the price of lodgings in that city during the conferences, election, and confequent ceremonies, from being told that the French ambafador pays 600x Florins [10001. Sterling] a-month for the house he has hired; and in cafe of fire or other accidents, has depofited 100,00 more to make good any damages.The great diminution of the Pope's in fluence appears from the following article "Frankfort, March 1. M. Oddi, th Pope's nuncio, has not the enjoymen here which his character seemed to pro mife him; but is obliged to be in a mar ner incognito. He did indeed notify h arrival to the Emperor's commiffaries, an to the Electoral ambassadors; but non of them complimented him upon it. H can therefore neither pay nor receive vi fits, unless he condefcends to a cerem nial very much inferior to what was here tofore attached to the character he bear Befides, the Electoral ambaffadors do n approve of the court of Rome's interfi ring in any affair relative to the election.

On the 12th of March, the Emper fet out from Vienna for Frankfort, wit a very grand retinue. The Elector college of this latter city had previousl refolved to proceed to the election of King of the Romans, and there was n doubt but that the choice would fail up on the Archduke Jofeph. The two al ticles following are from the London ga zette.

"Ratisbon, March 18. Yesterday, bout one o'clock, the Emperor, accompa nied by the Archdukes Joseph and Lea pold, with a numerous retinue, passe close to the walls of this city. His Im perial Majefty had lain the night before a Straubing, where he was most magnifi cently entertained by the Elector of Ba varia, who waited on him there in per fon. The Elector has caufed fevera new roads to be out across the country. and ordered detachments of cavalry, new cloathed on purpose, to parade at every ftation."

"Frankfort, March 27. The Elector of Cologne arrived here the 25th, at three in the afternoon, amidst a vast concourse of people, of all ranks, that went to meet his Electoral Highnefs. About four o'clock the Elector of Treves visited his Highnefs without ceremony; and, foon after he was gone, the Elector of Mentz came in the fame manner.

Yefterday

Yesterday morning the Electoral ambafadors went in ceremony to wait on Electoral Highness, which emploved m till dinner. After which, the Flectwaited on the Emperor at Heifenm; and on his return, he repaid the rits of the Electors of Mentz and Treves.

This day the Archduke Jofeph has been animoully elected King of the Romans. The Emperor, with the King of the RoPans, will make their entry into this city the 29th; and the coronation is fixed to Se 3d of April.

It is faid the Emperor will fet out hence reroth of next month; arrive at Molck the Thurfday in the holy week; and ake his public entry into Vienna on Later Tuesday."

The mystery of the fraternity of the Mark Rafe, in BOHEMIA [98.], has been deared up. At the head of it was a bleman; and the reft were perfons empeyed in fearch of the philofophers ftone. officer, who had given 52 ducats to e admitted an adept, finding himself Bubbled, wanted his money again; and being put off from time to time with frilous excufes, he betrayed the fraterni

The Ruffian minifter at the court of ALIN lately received exprefs orders hm his court to inform the King, that Imperial Majefty could not behold ith indifference the negotiations actualcarried on between him and the Ot Aman Porte; and that the demanded a Categorical answer to the two following cetbons. 1. Whether thefe negotiatos have any part of her dominions for beir object? 2. Whether they are degned against the house of Auftria? in which latter cafe fhe will confider them pointed against herself. To these tions the following general answer has been given: That the negotiations queftion have merely a commercial ob d, and are defigned to extend the trade his Majefty's fubjects. This answer, which does not feem to have entirely fafed the Ruffian ambassador, has been fent to Petersburg by an extraordinary Gourier. In order to promote the imprtant purpose of population [7.], his Prufian Majefty has established a lottery, the profits of which are to be divided inmarriage-portions for fingle young woen in his dominions.

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The Hereditary Prince and Princess of BRUNSWICK [51] arrived fafe, the 21ft

of February, at the city of that name, where they were received with the greatest demonstrations of joy.

On the 5th of March arrived at Lon, don Baron Scheele, from OSNABURG, whom the States and Noble Chapter bad sent with advice, that, agreeably to his Britannic Majefty's conge d' elire, the election of a Bishop and fovereign of that fee was fallen upon his fecond fon Prince Frederick [xxv. 527.]. According to Bufching's geographical and hiftorical account, the revenues of that bishoprick are 100,0081 per annum

In regard to the DUTCH we give the three following articles.

"Hague, March 2. It is affured, the reiterated representations made by the Count de Welderen, our minifter at London, relative to the oppreflions to which our merchant-fhips were fubjected by the English privateers, have at last produced fome effect, and that the King has given orders, that the complaints of the fubjects of the republic fhall be examined, and entire juftice be rendered to them."

"London, March 13. It is faid our ambassador at the Hague has received but a very lame account, with regard to the great naval and military force of the Dutch in the East Indies, attended with an altercation, which plainly indieates their opinion of being fuperior to all the earth in thofe feas."

"Hague, March 9. The Prince of Orange entered yesterday into the 17th year of his age. His Serene Highnes received, upon this occafion, the compli ments of all the colleges of the republie refident here, of the foreign minifters, and a prodigious number of perfons of the firft rank from all parts of the United Provinces."

What relates to FRANCE we fhall alfo give from the public papers, as follows.

"Paris, Feb. 27. The feveral parlia ments of this kingdom have again entered on the exercife of their functions, and the disorders occafioned by the two edicts and the declaration of April laft, have given place to order, concord, and tranquillity.

When the parliament of Grenoble had their laft audience at Verfailles, the King told them, That he had fent for them to communicate to them his intentions; that he had been informed of their refolution to prefent remonstrances; and that they were at liberty to explain themselves. The first prefident, when he prefented,

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