Mhail,

And ye green leas of Tiviotdale— Ye heathy moors, of auburn hue, Your bleakeft landscapes, ftretch'd around,

Affume the tints of Fairy-ground,
And infancy revive anew.

The fhadow of my native grove,
And wavy streaks of light, I love,
When brighteft glows the eye of day;
And fhelter'd from the fultry beam,
I meditate befide the ftream,
Or, by the pebbled channel stray.

Where little playful eddies wind,
The banks with filvery foam are lin❜d,
Untainted as the mountain fnow;

And round the rock, incrufted white, The rippling waves in murmurs light, Complain to gales which whifpering blow.

Thrice bleft the days I here have feen, When blythe I trac'd the margin green, With heart as light as heart could be;

And thought the time would ever last, As gay and chearful as the pastBleft days! which I no more shall see.

Ye, o'er my mind, at Memory's hour, Come grateful as the noontide show'r, Unto the panting flocks which feed;

Among the red-brown tufts of heath, Along the winding primrofe ftrath, And o'er the buck-bean flowered mead.

Your memory, innocent and sweet, I will not wafte in vain regret; For, tho' ye ne'er return again,

Your memory fhall my heart relieve, Whene'er this anxious breaft fhall grieve, And mitigate the fenfe of pain.

Yet ftill I love the rivulet's chime, Which marks the filent lapfe of time, That paffes to return no more;

While heedlefs mortals never dream, Its courfe is tranfient as the stream, But never lingers on the shore.

When dreams around my infant head, Their fairy wings phantaftic fpread, Faint-pictur'd with the fcenes of old,

Amid the groups, with glad furprise,
I faw my native groves arise,
And Tiviot's chryftal waters roll'd.

And when Religion rais'd my view
Beyond this concave's azure blue,
Where flowers of fairer luftre blow;
Where Eden's groves again fhall bloom,
Beyond the desart of the tomb,
And living freams for ever flow.

The groves of foft celeftial dye,
Were fuch as oft had met mine eye,
Expanding green on Tiviot's fide;
The living ftream whofe pearly wave
In Fancy's eye appear'd to lave,
Refembled Tiviot's limpid tide.

Befide the twifted hazel-bufh

I love to fit, and hear the thrufh, When nuts in infant clusters spring;

While, from a thousand mellow throats, High fwell the gently trembling notes, And ductile whiftling echoes ring.

But hufh your notes, for füre I hear Strange founds, which vibrate in mine

ear

The fongs I heard in time before :

Methinks a fpirit, whispering fweet, Does all their former tones repeatBut now they fink to rife no more.

When forth at morn the heifers go, And fill the field with plaintive lowe, Full mindful of their young confin'd; When fun-beams wake the lumbering breeze,

And light the dew-drops on the trees; Befide the ftream I lie reclin'd:

And

I

A FAIRY SONG.

BY THE SAME..

CAN figh, and I can pray,

Watch and weep the hours away,
Tune fad Philomela's throat,
Or in thin air lightly float;
Glimmer in the moon's wan beam,
Or through twilight faintly gleam;
I cau mark the landscape fade,
'Mid the poplar's quiv'ring fhade,
While at night in. dewy ring,
Many a tender plaint I fing.
Airy forms unnumber'd wake,
On the ftream, or on the brake;
See the floating legions fly,
Tear for tear, and figh for figh;
See the streams that mingling flow,
Balfam to the breaft of woe.
Hark! O hark!-that dulcet ftrain,
How it foothes the sense of pain!
Sounds fo fweet, like fhadows gay,
Quickly rife and quick decay,
On a lily's fuow-white breaft,
Oft I hufh my foul to 'reft;
Sadly fing, and fadly play
Many a foft and melting lay:
Wake in ev'ry eye I fee,
Tears of fenfibility;

With my small, but piercing dart,
Ope the fluices of the heart.
Mark the gems in pity's eye,
Waft the precious pearls on high;
See they grace the crystal cave
Wafh'd by mild compaffion's wave.
There enwrapt in amber cell,
Liftening to the curfew-bell,
Oft I país the livelong hour,
Thron'd in fair ambrofial bow'r.
Dear these scenes fhall ever be !'
Dear to forrow, and to me!

true;

are

A fairy form approach'd my head, Smiling beneath her mantle blue. "Fie, fie," fhe cried," why fleep fo long, "When the the nymph you dearly love, "Now roves the vernal flow'rs among, "And waits for you in yonder grove?

"Hark! you may hear her cherub voice,
"The voice of Health is fweet and clear;
"Yes, you may hear the birds rejoice
"In fymphony her arbour near."

I rose, and hasten'd to the grove,
With, eager fteps and anxious mind;
I rofe, the elfin's truth to prove,
And hop'd the promis'd nymph to find.

My fairy took me by the hand,
And chearfully we stepp'd along;
She stopp'd but on the new-plough'd land,
To hear the ruffet woodlark's fong.

We reach'd the grove-I look'd around,
My fairy was no longer near;
But of her voice I knew the found,
As thus fhe whisper'd in my ear:

"The nymph, fair Health, you came to "find,

"Within thefe precincts loves to dwell; "Her breath now fills the balmy wind ; "This path will lead you to her cell."

I bended to the primrose low,

And afk'd if Health might there refide:
"She left me," faid the flower, "but now,
For yonder violet's purple pride."

I question'd next the violet's queen,
Where buxom Health was to be found?
She told me, that the late was feen
With cowflips toying on the ground.

Then thrice I kifs'd the cowflips pale,
And in their dew-drops bath'd my face;
I told them all my tender tale,

And begg'd their aid coy health to trace.

"From us," exclaim'd a lowly flower,
"The nymph has many a day been gone,
"But now the refts within the bower,
"Where yonder hawthorn blooms alone."

Quick to that bower I ran, I flew,
And yet no nymph I there could find;
But fresh the breeze of morning blew,
And fpring was gay, and Flora kind.

If I return'd fedate and flow,
What if the nymph I could not fee?
The bluth that paffed along my brow
Was proof of her divinity.

And fill her votary to prove,
And ftill her dulcet fmiles to fhare,
I'll tread, the fields, I'll haunt the grove,
With untir'd steps and fondeft care.

✪ fprite beloved! vouchsafe to give
A boon, a precious boon to me!
Within thy influence let me live,
And fometimes, too, thy beauties fee.
So fhall the mufe in nobler verse.
And ftrength renew'd, exulting fing;
Thy praife, thy charms, thy power rehearse,
And fweep with bolder hand the string.

Quod petis hic eft.

Some rude engraver's hand had etch'è`-
A baby's Angel's face.

John fwallow'd firft a mod'rate fup;
But Joan was not like John;
For, when her lips once touch'd the cup,
She fwill'd till all was gone.

John often urg'd her to drink fair.
But the ne'er chang'd a jót;
She lov'd to fee the Angel there,
And therefore drain'd the pot.

When John found all remonstrance vain,
Another card he play'd;

And, where the angel ftood fo plain,
He got a devil portray'd.

Joan faw the horns, Joan faw the tail,
Yet Joan as ftoutly quaff'd;
And ever, when the feiz'd her ale,
She clear'd it at a draught.

John ftar'd, with wonder petrify'd,
His hairs rofe on his pate;

Plain folk, in humble plight;

One only tankard crown'd their board,
And that was fill'd each night..
Along whofe inner bottom îketch'd,
In pride of chubby grace,

"At this enormous rate?"

O John," said she,

am I'to blame?

I can't in confcience stop;

For fure 'twould be a burning fhame To leave the devil a drop!"

HOUSE OF LORDS.

April 27.

LORD Grenville prefented a Meffage from his Majefty on the fubject of the Prince of Wales's debts, of which the following is the fubftance:

His Majefty relies on the liberality and affection of the Houfe of Lords, and on the fatisfaction they expreffed on the nuptials of their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales, for taking fuch measures as will enable his Majefty to form an establishment for their Royal Highneffes, fuitable to their rank and dignity.

His Majefty laments that, in an event, on all other accounts fo advantageous, no provifion which Parliament may be inclined to make can be fecured to their Royal Highneffes till the Prince is relieved from the obligations which he is under at prefent. But however anxious his Majefty muft feel for the fettlement of his Royal Highnefs's debts, he does not call upon Parliament for a loan for this purpofe; but recommends the propriety of making an ample provifion for the Prince's eftablishments, and that they would form a plan for the payment of

the debts, by appropriating for a time. the revenue of the Dutchy of Cornwall,

and a proportion of his Royal Highnes's other incomes; and that proper steps may be taken for the regulation of his Royal Highness's expenditure, to prevent any new incumbrances.

Lord Grenville moved that his Majefty's Meffage be taken into confideration on Friday next, and that the House be fummoned. Ordered,

May 1. After the private bufiness was difpofed of, the order of the day was read, for taking into confideration his Majefty's Meffage relative to the Prince of Wales's debts.

Lord Grenville ftated to the House, that, as the fubject of the Meffage was a fubject of finance, and came more particularly within the province of the Houfe of Commons, he thought it would be improper for this Houfe to difcufs the fubject till it fhould come in a regular form from the Commons; he should therefore, content himfelf for the prefent to move, that an humble Addrefs be prefented to his Majefty, to thank his Majefty for his Majefly's moft gracious communication, and to affure his

Majefty

Majefty of the Conftant and dutiful attachment of this Houfe to his Majefty's royal person, family, and government, and of their readiness to concur in enabling his Majefty to make a provision for their Royal Highneffes the Prince and Princess of Wales, fuitable to their high rank and dignity. The Addrefs was carried nem. con..

May 13. Council was this day finally heard on the York-buildings appeal. Lord Thurlow and the Lord Chancellor both flated their reasons why it was their opinion that the interlocutor of the Court of Seffion in Scotland fhould be reverfed. Their Lordships then order. ed accordingly that the interlocutor be reverfed, and that the courts of feffion should take into confideration Mr Mac. kenzie's different cofts and expence. This appeal has continued fince the year 1784, a space of eleven years.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.

April 27.

The Chanceller of the Exchequer préfented a Meffage from his Majefty, of the fame purport as that delivered in the Lords, which was read by the Speaker: when Mr Pitt moved, that it be referred to a Committee of Supply.

Mr Stanley was aftonished that the Prince of Wales's debts fhould be again mentioned to the Houfe. He moved, therefore, that the Addrefs in answer to his Majefty's Message, in May 1787,.be read.

Mr Grey moved, that the King's Meffage, to which it referred, might also be read; which being agreed to, they were both read.

Among other things, the Meffage faid, that his Majefty had received from his Royal Highnefs the Prince of Wales the strongeft affurances that no fuch embarraffments fhould again occur."

Mr Stanley was forry to be forced to obferve, that Parliament had moft liberally extricated his Royal Highnefs from his embarraffments, under a folemn pronife that no future application, would be made for the fame purpofe; notwithflanding which, they were now called upon to make a fimilar provifion. He therefore moved, "that the Houfe be called over previous to the confideration of his Majefty's Meffage ;" but, in fo doing, he difclaimed any thing difrespectful to the illuftrious perfon concerned.

The Speaker obferved, that such a motion was now irregular, as the Meffage

could only be taken into consideration in a Committee of Supply; but the Hon. Member might make fuch a motion in the Committee by way of amendment The motion for referring the Meffage to a Committee was put, and carried.

May 5. The House, in a Committee on bounty to mafters and furgeons of flaves trade ships, voted a bounty of 100l. to each mafter, and 50l. to each furgeon, of Aave-fhips, if not more than two in each hundred shall have died, and 251. to the furgeon when not more than three in each hundred fhall have died, to be reported to-morrow.

May 13. The Chancellor of the Exchequer moved, that the House refolve itfelf into a Committee, for taking into confideration his Majesty's Meffage on the efstablishment and debts of the Prince of Wales; which being read, two objects, he faid, were recommended in his Majefty's Meffage which ought to be kept feparate one from another. The first was to fettle a fuitable establishment on their Royal Highneffes the Prince and Princess of Wales; the fecond was to extricate his Royal Highness from the embarraffing incumbrances to which, for the prefent, he was unfortunately fubject, He propofed an augmentation of 65,000l. a year; 25,000l. of which he propor fed to appropriate to the extinction of his debts, with 13,000l. a year, arifing out of the Dutchy of Cornwall, to be erected into a fund at compound inter

eft.

There were other articles to come before the Committee of Supply, fuck as 25,000l. for completing Carleton houfe, which he proposed should be infured to the Crown; 27,000l, or 28,cool. to defray the preparatory expences of the marriage; and 50,000l. as a jointure to her Royal Highnefs, which did not exceed what was formerly granted on fimilar occafions. He then flated, the claims on his Royal Highness from his creditors amounted to 620,000l. On the nature and amount of these debts be dwelt with much becoming feverity, though he lamented the neceffity he was under of animadverting on the prodiga lity which had occafioned them. He concluded by moving, that a yearly fum, not exceeding 65,000l. be granted to his Majefty, to enable him to make fuch additions to the establishment of his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales as may become the dignity assumed by him on the late happy event of his marriage.

Mr Grey thought 40,000l. a year a fufficient