that at the time of Mr. Pitt's decease there might be no ftocks exifting, confidering the rapid progrefs he is making in paying them off; but, upon the best calculation, Sir Gregory Page Turner thinks there is no danger of that happening foon.

Mr. Alderman Price, whofe eloquence flows fmoother than his own oil, grumbled a little on this occafion, being of opinion, that if pofterity are to have the honour of erecting the ftatue, they ought alfo to bear the expenfe.

To this it has been well anfwered, in the first place, that, fuppofing pofterity unwilling to pay for one, then Mr. Pitt would have no ftatue at all; a thing against their own original agreement when they fubfcribed to erect one.

Secondly, fuppofing pofterity willing, yet, as Mr. Pitt has laid them under feveral burdens in his life, it might feem harsh to lay upon them the further charge of his obfcquies.

Laftly, as Mr. Angerftein, and the other executors appointed to erect the ftatue on the death of Mr. Pitt, are old men (all of them between fixty and feventy), it may be inferred, that it will not fall to the lot of posterity at all.

Upon what calculation of nativities this is founded we know not; but to find underwriters on lives, fuch as the aforefaid Mr. Angerftein, confidently affuming that a fet of men of fourfcore are to furvive Mr. Pitt, is very alarmning.

This compels us to look forward to that day of grief when this great ftatefman fball fit to the ftatuary. As fomething remarkable attends the exit of great men, we have a ftrong prefentiment, that at his death Europe will meet with a real deliverance. With regard to himfelf, the recollection of his paft life, and the ghoftly counfels of Mr. Wilberforce, will afford him uitable confolation.

THE

THE STATUE IS TO BE IMMEDIATELY
ERECTED.

[From the fame.]

is not our fault that the public must have "more laft words" on this fubject. The friends of the cheme have changed their minds-The ftatue is to be rected, without waiting for any thing fo uncertain as Mr. Pitt's demife; and which, if it were not uncertain, night, when it came, overwhelm his friends with uch a weight of forrow, that, inftead of erecting tatues, they would be for following him to the land of forgetfulness.

At a late meeting, it was folemnly debated, and greed nem. con. that the prefent was not to be facrificed to the future; that we did not know enough of. pofterity to trust them with this great work; and that the impulfes of gratitude were not things to be vefted in the hands of truftees. The debates, or rather converfation, were long and ferious; for, as a nember obferved, it was no lefs than a queftion of life and leath.

A committee of precedents had been appointed to search for ftatues to living characters, and enough were produced to justify the practice: it was likewife ingeniously discovered, that a picture is but a ftatue on canvafs, and that between an engraving and a bronze the only difference was weight of metal.

Poffibilities were taken into account; and it was observed, that if Mr. Pitt should change his opinions, it was no more than he had done before, when the only confequence was, that his friends changed with him. As to his becoming worse, none of the fubfcribers would allow that to be in the smallest degree probable, or poffible. Some thought there was a phyfical, and others a natural impoffibility-but all concurred in the fempiternity of merit that they were determined to discover in him in all time forthcoming.

The

The ftatue, therefore, is immediately to be put in hand; but whofe hand or whofe head will be equal to the undertaking, it was thought prefumptuous even to guefs at. It feemed too vaft for the common powers of human genius.

One member obferved, that as the word Statue had been bandied about too much, it fhould be called a Monument; but this was over-ruled by a facetious Alderman prefent, who remarked that this would create great confufion to Mr. Pitt's admirers from the country, who, when they inquired for the Monument would infallibly be fhewn the way to Fifh Street Hill.

The clamour and malignity of faction were properly noticed, and the danger of erecting the ftatue in any public place was weighed with great accuracy and clo quence by feveral fpeakers. To obviate this, it wa propofed, that the ftatue fhould be erected in som very fecure place, and no admiffion to fee it granted but to thofe who were well affected to Mr. Pitt's perfo and government. It was alfo proposed, that the plac of erection fhould be concealed as much as poffible which the Alderman above mentioned faid might b very easily done, as they did not at prefent know. themfelves.

The meeting difperfed after coming to the princip refolution, that the ftatue fhould be immediatel erected, and that in the mean time fubfcribers fhoul be taken-in as ufual.

IMPROMPTU

ON A REPORTED MARRIAGE.

BILL, inur'd from a boy to contention and strife,

Cannot live without warfare-fo takes him a wife!

C.

TH

ONE paffion, in vigour furpaffing the reft,

Like the ftouteft young bird, call'd the cock of the ncft, Poffeffes the heart of each woman and man,

And in Reafon's defpite will rule there if it can.
Now 't is this headstrong leader of her and of him,
That always produces each notable whim;
And checkers with pleasure, extravagance. ftrife,
Mihap, wildom, folly, the landicape of life.
In the bofom of princes it foiters ambition,
That brings them fometimes to the brink of perdition.
In the mind of the mob it begets an illufion,
That frequently plunges the ftate in confufion.
It has led even eininent ftatesmen aftray,
And dipp'd nations in debt which they never
It excites in the merchant a fondness for gain;
In the farmer, a luft for abundance of grain;
In the foldier, a hope of perferment and laurels ;
In the lawyer, an itching for briefs, feuds, and quarrels ;
In the parfon's meek bosom, a longing divine

could

For the living that death makes his rector refign.
In love and in wedlock, both roses and thorns
It yields and at seafons-divorces and horns.
To its influence we owe all our ableft physicians;
'Tis the fine qua non of our best politicians;
The ladder, by which our aftronomers rife
To find out new ftars that lie hid in the fkies..
And furely thefe verfes fufficiently fhew it,
How deeply to it is indebted the poet.

pay.

HAFIZ.

LOVE AND DIGESTION.

BY THE M- -S OF B

ACCEPT, my ever-dearest Ann,
A flice of choiceft Parmefan.
Thrice happy cheefe, whofe envied lot
Is to defcend my Anna's throat,

D.

And

And chafe the foul imprison'd air
From out the bowels of my fair!
Could I that happy lot obtain,
And find my way fafe out again,
I then each blifsful day would prove
A morfel fweet for her I love.

VERSES

ADDRESSED TO MR. ADDINGTON BY A DIGNITARY OF
THE CHURCH OF IRELAND.

FROM thefe deferted fcenes, Forth's Saxon fhores,
His blood-ftain'd urn where mournful Slaney pours,
(Gay, lovely ftream, while culture undismay'd
Thy waving fteeps, thy golden vale array'd!)
What objects ferve recoiling thought to scan
The guilty blindnefs of misguided man;
The village burnt, the defolated plain,
And the wan widow, with her orphan train!

*

But most that bridge arrefts th' abhorrent view,
Where foul Revolt harangu'd her madd'ning crew,
Where Maffacre the panting bofom gor'd,

Through every nerve with ruthlefs pike explor'd
Life's lateft fpark, or quick with taunting tongue
Down to the wave the writhing victim flung.
Ah! ftill the groans the ear of Fancy reach,
Still floats the voice of Anguifh down the beach.
And oft as round my glebe I mufe alone,
Rapt into woes which mem'ry still must own-
Some mangled form, fome lov'd affociate's fhade,
Flits by, and glooms with horror all the glade.
Could Chriftian breafts fuch favage fury feel?
No, falfe Religion, this thy fpurious zeal,
When priests afcendant the blind herd impel,
When bigot faith 'gainst Nature can rebel,

* Alluding to the well-known fact of the rebels having thrown a number of their prifoners from their pikes over the bridge at Wexford into the river.

When,