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And Rome, defpoil'd and prostituted, lay,
At once, of tyrants and of flaves the prey;
Her ftrain's terrific vengeance to disclose,
The indignant Mufe of JUVENAL arofe,
And on the bafeness of an impious age
Hurl'd execration from his furious page.
What Mufe, matured in fome congenial
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Is found to trace the Roman's flight
To roll the thunder of his verfe along,
And wake its noble rage in British fong?
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Unequal finks beneath the bold defign; Around the fenfe in devious measures [ful maze. And flows perplex'd amidst the tuneThy talents, GIFFORD, to the trial bring [fpring; Exuberant itores from Learning's facred And blend, as genius and as talte infpire, The critick's judgment with the poet's fire. [monious Nine Though on thy arduous work the harHave thed the influence of their smiles divine; [wave, Yet o'er thy brow a fairer wreath fhall Than e'er the favour of the Muses gaveThy chriftian zeal shall brighter fame be itow, [throw. And round thy name a purer radiance I. C. H.

LINES,

BY THE DUCHESS OF DEVONSHIRE.

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THE laughing Zephyr thus the Storm *[breast; "Relent, fierce foe, and calm thy angry On ev'ery breath bewitching odours bring, [Spring, Whisper voluptuous fecrets to Kifs the foft rofe, amidst the lilies play, And hail the dawn, and greet the clofe of day[Tempeft faid; Like me be bleft."- -"Like thee !" the "My pride is havoc, and my joy is dread! With blafts of terror I infect the air, Detroy the hamlet, and the village tear! Begone, fond Hope, at my approach be gone,

Unalterable Nature drives me on."

EPISTLE TO A YOUNG LADY LATELY MARRIED.

SENT WITH A PIANO FORTE.

To prove myself your ardent friend,
Great is the blefling that I fend;
No tale by goffip-author told,
Scarce fit for children three years old;
No fplendid article of drefs,

To hide and make your beauty lefs;

But fomething that, deferv'd by few, Is only not quite worthy you.

I fend, clofe pack'd within a cheft, The only charm by man poffefs'd; All thofe defcrib'd in old romances Are merely fuperftitious fancies ; But all the virtues they have feign'd Are in this powerful one contain'd. If you with art this charm employ, From Heav'n it brings Content and Joy; Content, for bafhfulness renown'd, So often fought, fo feldom found; And Joy, whofe wanton jeft and smile So oft the ling'ring hours beguile. If ever the foul tyrant, Care, To vifit your abode fhould dare, Its talifmanic influence fhow, And put to flight the ugly foe.

Mufic, that antidote to fpleen, You now may guefs, is what I mean; For these effects, and more, we find, In Heav'n-taught mufic are combin'd: If one of that fair train I fee Already prattling round your knee, Should fometimes be to wrath inclin'd, You foon may calm his little mind; Blows, with your ufual fenfe, defpife, And with a tune the child chaftife. For if, as Congreve has exprefs'd, Mufic can calm the favage breaft, It, fure, can make a storm fubfide In breafts fo near to your's allied.

I fcarce had the last couplet made, When Reason, ftiff ill-manner'd jade, Rush'd in, and, as the pass'd along, Thus fpoke, and ftopp'd the poet's fong. "What leads you vainly to profefs, The peerless fair whom you addrefs, Could bleffings of fuch import owe To any charm that you beftow; When, to yourself it is well known, She has fo many of her own. Employ'd by her, this charm you fing, Content and Joy from Heav'n will bring, When all the thinking world can tell, They always with that fair one dwell. Your want of wit no more expofe, But write plain fenfe in humble profe." Nov. 1802. J. H.

ON BEING LEFT ALONE AFTER
DINNER.

How hall I here employ my time?
Alone, without or prole or rhyine,
Or pencil to amule me:
Nor pen nor paper to be found,
No friend to puth the bottle round,

Or for its stay abuse me.

The fervants come and find me here,
And flare upon me like the deer
On Selkirk, in Fernandez;

And

And quite as tame, they wipe the chairs,
And fcrub-and hum their fav'rite airs,
And ask what my command is.

I wish one knew the way to change
Customs fo barbarous and ftrange,
So favage and inhuman :

I wish the fex were kinder grown,
And when they find a man alone,

Would treat him like a woman.
Well here's to her who far away,
Cares not that I'm or grave or gay;
And then no more I'll drink :
But fold my arms, and meditate,
And clap my feet upon the grate,
And on grave matters think.,
"Tis-let me fee-full fixteen years
(And wond'rous fort the time appears)
Since with inquiry warm :
With beauty's novel power amaz'd,
I follow'd 'mid the crowd that gaz'd,
On -'s beauteous form.

Up

-'s fatiguing streets I ran, (Juft half pretending to be man, And fearful to intrude)

Bufied I look'd on fome employ,
Or limp'd to feem fome other boy,

Left the fhould think me rude.

The fun was bright, and on her face, As proud to fhew this ftranger grace, Shone with its pureft rays;

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And through the folds that veil'd her form,

Motion difplay'd its happieft chaim,
To catch th' admiring gaze.
The fmiling luftre of her eyes,
That triumph'd in our wild furprise,
Well I remember still;
They fpoke it joy to give delight,
And feem'd to lay," If I'm the fight,
"Good folks pray take your fill."
And can it be that 'neath this roof,
Whilft I fit patiently aloof,

This 'witching form can be!
Quick let me fly-avaunt my fears,
'Tis but a door-and fixteen years,
Divide this fair and me!

Alas! that beauty fhould grow old;
Alas! that paffion should be cold;

Alas! that rhymes fhould fail :-
And oh while thus I fadly fing,
Alas! that not a bell fhould ring,

To clofe my mournful tale.

Ye youths debarr'd your fair one's eye; Ye that for love to mem'ry fly;

Attend this moral rhyme : Lift to the penfive lay it pours, "The devil take your doors and hours, "Your Carpenters and Time!!!

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FIRST SESSION OF THE SECOND PARLIAMENT OF THE UNITED KINGDOM OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND.

(Continued from Page 68.)

HOUSE OF LORDS.

THURSDAY, FEB. 3.

A
NUMBER of Peers, among whom
were the Bishops of Ely and Chi-
chefter, the Earl of Coventry, Earl
Berkeley, and Lord De Dunitanville,
took the oaths.

Several Petitions were prefented; among others, two against the Woollen Manufactory Bill.

FRIDAY, FEB. 4.

An Account was prefented of the National Debt.

MONDAY, FEB. 7.
No bufinefs of importance.

TUESDAY, FEB. 8.

Lord Pelham moved to poftpone the progrefs of the Woollen Manufacturers' Bill, for feveral reafons; but particularly as a number of the Acts, which it was the object of the Bill to fufpend; were repealed.-Bill ordered to be com

The Bishops of Hereford and St. Asaph were introduced on their respective tranfmitted on this day month. lations.

The Lord Chancellor adverted to the fubject of the right of feats of the Archiepifcopal Lords of Ireland; and after pointing out fome overfights on this fubject in the Union Act, he moved, "That fo much of the Act of Union as refers to the right of the Lords Spiritual of Ireland to their feats in the Houfe of Lords, be referred to the confideration of the Committee of Privileges, and that the Committee fit on Thursday next for that parpole."-Ordered.

WEDNESDAY, FEB. 9.
Nothing of importance.

THURSDAY, FEB. 10.

The Bishop of Chefter took the oaths and his feat.

FRIDAY, FEB. 11.

The Bishop of Winchester and Lords Northampton and Grantley were fworn; after which a Committee fat on that part of the Union A&t which provides for the fitting of Irish Pars. Adjourned.

HOUSE

HOUSE OF COMMONS.

THURSDAY, FEB. 3.

NEARLY twenty Members took the

oaths and their feats.

Mr. Keene, in allufion to the affairs of the Carnatic, fpoke of the importance of afcertaining whether the alterations in that part of the world were founded on juftice; and pointed out fume books which lay down proper measures to be purfued by Indian Governors: he then moved for feveral papers from Lords Macartney and Hobart to the Court of Directors from 1782 to* 1795.-Agreed

to.

Mr. Corry moved for a variety of accounts relative to Irish Charitable Establishments.-Ordered.

FRIDAY, FEB. 4.

General Gascoigne moved, that there be laid before the Houfe an account of the number of veffels, and the amount of their tonnage, together with the number of men and boys, employed in the tranfport fervice, and armed hips, between the 5th of January 1801, and the 5th of January 1803, diftinguishing each year.

Mr. Vanfittart moved for an account of Bank notes in circulation for the laft three months.

Some converfation enfued on this fubject, between Mr. Tierney, Mr. Thornton, and Mr. Vanfittart; after which the motion was amended and agreed to.

Several annual accounts of Ireland were moved for by Mr. Corry, and prefented.

MONDAY, FEB. 7.

On the motion of Mr. W. Dundas, the time for receiving Petitions was prolonged one week beyond Friday.

Petitions were prefented for enlarging Smithfield Market; for the formation of a Coal Market; and for the Improvement of the Port of London.

BANK RESTRICTION BILL.

The Chancellor of the Exchequer moved to bring in a Bill for continuing the A&t that reftrains the Bank from paying in fpecie: he looked forward with confidence to the moment when the Bank would refume its former practice; but at prefent, though there,could be no doubt of the fufficiency of the Bank, that establishment ought not to be 'expofed to the demands of fpecie for Coun. try Bank Notes, particularly as we received no ingots nor bullion from abroad. He only wifhed to fee the restriction continued till the courfe of exchange be

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Mr. Tierney urged, that the House ought to oblige the Bank to prove, that it was ready to pay in cafh whenever the reftriction was at an end: he thought the Houfe should be very careful in fending forth an opinion that a farther restriction was convenient to the Bank, left they fhould incur the fufpicion of being the blind followers or accomplices of the Directors.

Mr. Fox fpoke against the measure, left it fhould be repeated whenever the courfe of exchange was against us: if the inconvenience of taking off the refriction were apparent, he thought fome arrangement might be made, fuch as paying a part in cash, by which it might be leffened.

Mr. Banks intimated his intention of moving for an inquiry into the causes of the continuance of the Bill.

Lord Hawkesbury spoke in defence of the Chancellor's measure; and, after fome explanations, leave was given to bring in the Bill.

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The Secretary at War moved to bring in à Bill for exercifing the Militia for twenty-eight days instead of twenty-one. -Leave given.

The Chancellor of the Exchequer moved for a Committee on the Bank ReAtriction Bill; when

The Attorney General propofed to amend the Acts relative to this fubje&t. He ftated, that perfons held to bail procured their difcharge by making oath, that their

creditors in their affidavit had not stated that the defendant had tendered fuch debt in Bank Notes; and the defendant obtained his discharge on the ground that he could not offer fractional notes.

After thefe obfervations, the blanks were filled up with "fix weeks after the next Seffions."

Some further explanatory conversation took place; after which the House adjourned.

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

PARIS, JANUARY 31. ENERAL LASNES, having been ordered to re-affume his official ftation at Lisbon, has had an audience of leave; at which the First Conful expreffed his fatisfaction at the former fervices of the General while on the fame itation.

PARIS, Feb. 9.-The Firft Conful has diftributed feveral fabres of honour to Officers who have diftinguished themfelves at St. Domingo.

Citizens Delambre and Cuvier have been appointed perpetual Secretaries of the First Clafs of the National Institute; the former for the Mathematics, the latter for Natural Philofophy.

Citizen Sicard has been appointed perpetual Secretary of the Clafs of Languages and French Literature; and Citizen Dacier to the Clafs of Hiftory and Ancient Literature.

A late Moniteur contains a report from a Committee of the Medical Society of Paris, upon the origin, fymp. toms, and treatment of the catarrhal fever which lately broke out in that city. The determining caufes, as ftated by the Committee, are, "the fingular variations in the temperature of the atmosphere during the laft two months; the blowing of the North and Eaft winds in the night, and the South and the Eaft winds during the day; and the rapid tranfition, in the courfe of a few hours, from between four and five degrees below the freezing point, to five or fix degrees above it."-It having been fuppofed that this epidemic originated from the corrupt ftate of the atmosphere, two experiments were last week made to afcertain this point; the one by fending up a dog to a certain height, which came down

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dead, and very much fwelled; and afterwards by fending up a piece of raw meat, which was brought down in a ftate of complete putrefaction. Among the victims to this general disease, are Lalande, the Aftronomer, and Delille, the Poet.

M. de la Harpe died on the roth inft. and M. de St. Lambert on the 9th inft. at Paris. Both had been Members of the French Academy, as well as of the Second Clafs of the National Institute: M. de St. L. was eighty-four years of age.

La Harpe, author of "An Ancient and Modern Courfe of Literature," who fell a victim to the late epidemic difeafe, declared previous to his death, that he had a firm belief in the truth of the Chriftian religion, and folemnly retracted whatever may have appeared in his writings against its precepts and conftitution.

The Archbishop of Toledo has obtained from the Pope the Bull which authorifes him to fupprefs as many convents as he may deem neceffary, throughout Spain.-The once formidable Tribunal, the Inquifition, is faid to be entirely abolished, and the recent release of M. de Urquijo, who had been difgraced and banished for having declared himself hoftile to the Inquifition, gives probability to the report.

The German College of Princes is now to confift of 131 fuffrages, instead of 106, 13 of which are to belong to the King of Pruffia, 12 to the Emperor, including thofe of the Dukes of Tufcany and Modena, 13 to the Elector of Bavaria, eight to the Elector of Hanover, five to the Elector of Saxony, fix to the Margravine of Baden, and five to the Duke of Wirtemberg.

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