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which tends to fubvert the principles of our Government, which may wantonly wound the feelings of individuals, or which is in any degree offenfive to the purity of good morals. In all other refpects, our Publication will continue to exhibit a field for manly and impartial criticifm, for the exercise of literary industry, and for the cultivation of ingenuous and youthful talents.

We cannot take leave of our Readers without returning them our warmest acknowledgements for the full share which we continue to enjoy of public favour and reward. The duration of this fuccefs will doubtless depend, and we defire that it should, upon our diligent and progreffive endeavours to deferve it. S. U. Dec. 31.

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THOUGHTS ON THE LATE PROCEEDINGS IN FRANCE.

E garlands, wove with Fancy's flowers,
Farewel! Thou Wufe of penfive hours,
While peace is torn from weeping years,
Teach me to tell, in mournful fongs,
How Men of Rights wrought mighty wrongs,
And nations fill'd with tears!
How chill'd the patriot virtues ftood

When their loud champions fpurn'd their
Stain'd the atto ifh'd land with blood, [laws,
And dar'd to call it Freedom's caufe!
Indignant, generous paffions rife ;
Soft Pity lifts her dewy eyes.

Wonder alone no more is found,
While Vice its hydra-head can rear
In uger-vifag'd Roberfpierre*,

And Danton + ivy-crown'd.
Santerre! ye thousands! guards to Death!
Wide ye extend one tyrant's reign,
For whom ftill fpreads contagious breath,
The baneful family of PAINE.
Rifes for kings a deeper figh?
As men no more do monarchs die;

To undiftinguifh'd duft they turn;
Them, woes or joys, diftrets or please,
And preys to murder or difeafe,

Their friends, their kindred, mourn.
Yet blatts, which flender fhrubs have broke,
Unmov'd the foreftrees may hear;
While the rude ftorm that rends the oak

All the troubled grove muft share.
Say, have the ftorms which rent a throne
Its fovereigns overwhelm'd alone?

Has their wide (phere its rage withstood?
Our heare, it grief compel'd to know,
Through narrow circles (pread their woe,
Kings expires mourn in blood.

* See Moore's Journal.

This-Hift'ry tells of former days;

This now the anxious moments mourn; And, oh! the forfeits life repays

Till Peace with her fair train return.

O, God of armies, hear our prayer !
Incline the victor's heart to spare;

Let confcience feal the murderer's doom.
As Bofworth and Philippi boast,
May Richard's dreams and Cæfar's ghost
In battle overcome.

Hope beams through interpofing hours,
And Gallia's injur'd lord is feen
Leading to empyreal bowers
The fpirit of bis flaughter'd

queen.

From dungeons deep, thro' murder'd fame,
Marnanimous the fufferer came:

Thro' favage Joy's infulting breath
She pafs'd ferenely to the grave,
Smil'd at the freedom Frenchmen gave,
And fov'reign fhone in death.
Martyr at Friendfhin's holy thrine,

Fair Lamballe hails to Heav'n her queen.
Cazotte ! can its best joys be thine

Till there thy matchless child be seen ?
Naked of good, yon gulph fo near,
Does Marat's thivering fhade appear?

Uncall'd, fo ftain', by Cordé fent!
Oh! could her hand thofe ftains erafe!
It took his time, Heav'n's gift for grace,

Beyond the grave were fuch means lent.
But check, my Mufe, this daring flight,
While diftant wonders round thee throng;
Shrink filent from the awful fight,

And fighing end thy forrowing fong. Lancaster, Dec. 1793. ELIZA.

+ The ivy, from weakening its fupport, is an emblem of ingratitude. See various accounts of Danton with regard to the Princess Lamballe.

The Guillotine.

§ See the affecting account of this venerable old man and his affectionate daughter in Moore's Journal.

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Meteorolog. Diaries for Dec. 1792, & Jan. 1793 2 Antiquities at Clare-Curians Letters Patent 30
Loyalty of Diffenters-T. Warton vindicated 4 An original Letter from Sir William Dugdale ib.
Very curious Maúfoleum of Mrs. Vanbutchell 5 Elizabethan Letters-Ode in our last centured 31
New Hiftory of Archery-Studies of Cambridge 6 Michael Godfrey Mr. Ritonto Mr. Pinkerton 32
An Affociation of Literary Men very dearable 7 St. Cecilia-Mottos very frequently obfcure 33
Political Reflexions -Aftronomical Phænomenon? Earldom of Catilis-The Family of Kennedy 34
Biographical History of Mr. homas Weight 9 Comfortable Situation of many Day Labourer's i
Thoughts on Poetry, and Criticitous on-Foets 12 Hurd's Life of Bishop Warburton wished for 36
Verfifiers of falms? Time of Crit's Birth? 16 Genuine Character of a True Britou defcribed 57
Anecdotes of the late Rev. Ralph Nicolfon ib. County Clergyman's Remarks on Time-piece. 29
Pynham Priory-Some Thoughts on Imitation Remarks on vir. Swinton's Travels to Norway 4:
The Defcription of Clun Castle in Shropshire 18 Mifcellaneous Obter vations-Rand Holme '42
Rev. Wm. Edwards-Wyddball Hall, Herts 19 Talbot Earl of Shrew bary's Will, Letters.
An Original Let'er of Dr. Samael John on ib. Mitcellaneous Chferva ions-Bayfield Tortcife 4.
Guilt and Simplicity pourtrayed from Nature, 20 Proceedings of prefent Seffion of Parliament 45
Particulars of the Digges Family-Epitaphs 21 Lift of Public Bodies, &o. that have affociated 48
loftance of very ftrong intellectual Abilities 24 REVIEW OF NEW PUBLICATIONS
49-66
A curious original Letter of Mr. Lewis Morris 23 INDEX INDICATORIUS-Queries anfwered 67
Gronow Owen-Sermons at St. Andrew's 24
SELECT PORTRY, antient and modern 61-7
Infcription at Howden-Story of St. Cecilia. 25 For. Affairs, Domeftic Occurrences, &c. 53-88
The Life and Character of Mrs. Sa ah Steer 26 Marriages, Deaths, Preferments, &c.
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A Letter from the Hiftorian of Derbyshire 28 Average Prices of Corn-Bill of Mortality
St. James of Compoftella, his Cockle-hat? 29 Daily Variations in the Prices of the Stocks
Embellished with an elegant Portrait of Mr. THOMAS WRIGHT; Views of PYNHAM
PRIORY, CLUN CASTLE, and WYDIALL HALL; the HowDEN MONUMENT, by
CARTER; a SEAL; COIN; &c. &c.

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Printed by JOHN NICHOLS, at Cicero's Head, Red Lion Fata,, rics -it.ee.;
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1793.

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4. The horizon red and fiery at funrife. A ftorm in the evening. The moisture in the air precipitated on drinking-veffels, hand, nail, &c.-6. Great quantities of fea-gulls on the wing in-land. Three different rainbows in the space of an hour, betwixt twelve and one o'clock. A hurricane from the NW. began foon after one, accompanied with rain, and con tinued about twelwe hours. During the ftorm, the barometer funk to 28,70 from 29,79, when minuted at nine o'clock A.M.-8. A fiery horizon, unusually striped with ftrata of black. The fea roars in the evening.-12. The wind has blown a hurricane this and feveral evenings fince the 8th, with fome little intermiffion during day-light.-17. A golden-tinged ky at funfet.-18. A hurricane with showers in the evening.-21. A large circle, or, as is

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THE

Gentleman's Magazine:

For JANUARY,

1793.

BEING THE FIRST NUMBER OF VOL. LXIII. PART I.

Mr. URBAN,

Jan 9. ****HE following facts, as

they have not come into general history, deferve, XT Xi conceive, to be preferved in fome public XXX and permanent repofitory of intelligence, and therefore afk a place in your Mifcellany. In the year 1701, when the times were very critical and dangerous; when the exorbitant power of France threatened Europe with a general calamity when, by the death of the duke of Gloucester, the fucceffion to the English throne, in the Protestant line, was left unfettled; when the French monarch had caufed the Pretender to be proclaimed king of Great Britain; and when king William was beyond the feas; the Proteftant region and the nation were, in this featon of danger, greatly indebted to the zeal and exertions of a fingle ProteAant Diffenter.

Sir Thomas Abney, the friend of Dr. Watts, was that year mayor of London. This gentleman, though oppofed by the majority of his brethren on the bench, had the courage to propole an addrefs from the commencouncil to the king to fignify their refolution and readiness to ftand by his majefty, in oppofition to France and the Pretender. His adverfaries threw ma ny difficulties in his way; but, by his great pains and prudence, he furmounted them, and carried his point with remarkable fuccefs. The addrefs was tranfmitted to king William, in Holland; and, when the refolution of the city of London was publicly known,

it animated the affairs of the king, and gave new life to his intereft, both at home and abroad. A confiderable perfon complimented Sir Thomas Abney on this occafion, affuring him, tha he had done more fervice to the king than if he had given him 10,000l. and railed him a million of money. The importance of this measure foon appeared in the extent of its influence, and in the confequences of which it was most productive. The example of London, under the condu& of their chief maguirate, greatly fpirited the whole nation, and was followed with like addreffes from most of the corporations in it. The king availed himself of the favourable breeze of popular affection to diffolve the parliament, and to take the fenfe of the people at that critical jun&ure of public affairs, expreffed in their choice of a new one, which met on the 31st of December, 1701. In this. parliament was formed the act, which had the royal affent but the day before the king died, for the abjuration of the Pretender, and for eftablishment of the Proteftant fucceffion to the throne. Thu the crown was fecured to the illuftrious family that now wears it *.

The other fact I would mention, as difplaying the attachment of Protefiant Difenters to the houfe of Hanover, is, that the feed-plots of the rebellion, which, in the year 1715, was aimed at the government, were difcovered by one of them, the learned Dr. Charles Owen, of Warrington, who gave early nouce of the fcheines formed against it. This difcovery excited the refentment of his enemies, who did not enter into his loyal

* Jer. Smith's funeral fermon for Sir Thomas Abney.

vulgarly termed, wheel round the moon: rain generally fucceeds.-22. A violent ftorm of wind, accompanied with rain, began about 3 P.M. and continued almost the whole night. 29. Horizon red at funfet

Fall of rain this month, 6 inches 6-icths, Evaporation, 2 inches 1-10th. Fall of rain in the courfe of this year, 43 inches 8-10 Evaporation, 29 inches 8-roths Walton, near Liverpool.

J. HULT.

loyal views; which afterwards vented ifelf, by their commencing against hom an expenfive profecution, on his publishing a tract, intitled, " Plain-Dealings, or Separation without Schifm, and Schifm without Separation," This profecution was stopped by a noli profequi*. Though thefe tracts relate to the conduct of two individuals only, yet they go to refled honour on the zeal and Toyalty of the Diffenters at large; for it is well known that they were confon int to the principles, met the wifles, and, breathed the fpirit of the whole body. Yours, &c. JOSHUA TOULMIN.

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MR. URBAN,

Jan. 19.

T was with no fmall forprize that a party of gentlemen, many of whom are of the first class for genius and literary talents, faw the other evening, in your last month's Magazine (vol. LXIL P. 1072.), a letter figned Eboracents, in which the poetical abilities of a late long-established and much admired author, whofe Pocms have always been acknowledged to be written with true claffic purity, elegance, and fimplicity, are uncandidly criticifed. I fay uncandidly, because it cannot be fair to judge decifively of the poetical abilities or me rit of an author, by the small part of his works (the smallest I mean ia fumber), whilft not a fiegle fyllable is faid of his various other poetry, which has fo long been known, and defervedly admired.

From what the writer of the above letter fays, one would imagine the refpened author thus criticized had never written any thing but the odes on his majefty's birth-days, and new-years odes; for thofe are the only parts of his poetry that are mentioned by Eboracenfis; and which, from the hort time he had the honour of writing them (I think not quite four years), could be but few. But, did the excellent author in quetion never write any thing bu the above Odes? His Triumph of Ifis; the Pleasures of Melancholy; the muchadmired Poem on Sir Joshua Reynolds's painted Window at New College; his beautiful Ode on the approach of Summer; the Ham et; the admirsb.e Ode, intitied, Suicide; with a variety of other Poems, Odes, and elegant Sonnets, too

many here to be enumerated, after being fo long known and admired, need not now any exaggerated eulogium.

I am

fpeaking wholly to his poetry, not to
his other excellent writings, as a critic,
historian, and antiquary. In an au
thor of fuch eminent abilities, one is
compelled to think the curious dif-
covery, which the writer of the letter
feems to think he has made, fomewhat
extraordinary. As to his critique on
the Odes he mentions, as not being
written to touch the heart; were Odes
profeffedly compofed on fo happy an
occafion as his majefty's birth-day, to
be written in a plaintive, melancholy,
ftyle? Should the author have choien
"A mournful Mufe,
Soft Pity to infufe,"

to celebrate fo joyful an occafion? It
is too abfurd to mention.

It is a convincing proof that Eboracenfis knew but little of the excellent author of the Odes, by his affecting, they were written to display juperior learning; whereas, whoever bad the leaft acquaintance with him must know, that one of the chief traits in his worthy character was his modeft merit, which fhunning applaufe (inftead of making an arrogant difplay of his abilities) ever difclaimed that juft praife, which genius, talents, and industry (for of industry, furely, his laborious and ingenious Hifto ry of English Poetry is a tufficient No man of proof), to juftly merited

his learning and genius ever ufed them with more propriety or eff-&t. That vulgar celebrity, which men call fame, he totally defpited.

It is certainly very fingular, that the writer of the letter fhould unfortunately fix on the most contrary trait in the cha racter of the truly refpectable perfon he cenfures; and not have known (what every acquaintance he had in the world knew) the most diftinguishing part was, that his converfation and behaviour were particularly unafuming and modeft, joined with the not perfect fimplicity of manners. It was that modely, gentlenefs, and fimplicity of character, which endeared him to all his numerous

friends. The lines in an eulogy on his particular friend, Sir Joshua Reynolds, might with great propriety be applied to him alfo:

"Yet were his manners fo benigaly mild, Simplicity might own him for her child." Eboracenfis, towards the conclusion of--

his letter, by way, perhaps, of making fome amends for calling in queftion the long-acknowledged abilities of a moft

* J. Owen's funeral fermon for Dr. worthy man, whofe learning and genius Charles Owen. will be ever revered by ali men of true

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