And oft in thought, by antique pavements laid,
With Lyfons guide the military fpade;

And once, for purer air o'er ruval ground,
With little Daniel went his twelve miles round.

On Sundays at Sir Jofeph's (0) never fail'd,
So regular, you might have thought him bail'd.
With Jones a linguift, Sanfcrit, Greek, or Manks,
And could with Watson play fome chemick pranks;
Yet far too wife to reaft a diamond (†) whole,
And for a treasure find at laft a coal.

Would fometimes treat, his wines of chofen fort;
Will. Pitt, with honeft Harry, lov'd his (q) port;

In Scrip: not Hemings' (r) felf more vers'd than he,
The Solomons, or Nathan, or E. P.;

The Mr, Carter is a draftsman of the very firft merit, but his carbolick zeal betrayed him, affifted by fome Morofopbifts of the Society, to attack THE FIRST GENIUS IN ARCHITECTURE, in this kingdom, MR. WYATT. Longa eft injuria: ionga ambages. It is difficult to prove that the Society of Antiquaries was inftituted, folely to preferve the purity of Gothick Architecture, or to liften to the tiresome cabals of bufy Baronets, and meddling Romish priests.—But to us, under the au fpices of Wyatt,

O Fortunati quorum pia tecta refurgunt!

Æneas ait, et faftigia fulpicit urbis.

(0) SIR JOSEPH BANKS, Bart. Knight of the Bath, Prefident of the Royal Soeiety, Privy Counsellor, &c. &c. has inftituted a meeting at his house in Soho Square, every Sunday evening at which the Literati, and men of ank and confequence, and men of no confequence at all, find equally a polite and pleasing reception from that justly diftinguifhed gentleman. SIR JOSEPH BANKS S fitted for his ftation in the learned world, not more from his attainments and the liberality of his mind, than by his particular and unremitted attention to the intereft and advancement of natural knowledge, and his generous patronage of the Arts.

FORTUNÆ MAJORIS HONOS, ERECTUS ET ACER!

(p) The ingenious Mr. Tennant has fhewn, in a paper read at the Royal So ciety, that he can reduce a Diamond by evaporation to Charcoal. I have heard, that Mrs. Haftings, and other great poffeffors of Diamonds, have a kind of Tennanto-phobia, and are fhy of this gentleman. A poor Poet, like myself, who has neither diamonds nor any thing precious belonging to him, can only remind Mr. Tennant and the Royal Society of the old proverb, Carbonem pro Thefauro." (q) I can give no better character of his old Port. We all know on fuch occafions," Bacchum in remotis rupibus" is the fong of boneft Harry Dundas, in all the wildness of highland Dithyrambick; while Mr. Pitt, on the battlements of Walmer, in his own and Virgil's fober majefty," OCEANO LIBEMUS. ait." (r) Dr. Morotophos now and then dabbled in the funds. The gentlemen of the Stock Exchange, or The College, (as it is termed in City wit) are much indebted to that eminent calculator of different payments, Mr. Hemings. Boyd, Benfield, Solomon Solomon, Nathan Solomon, E. P. Solomen, Thelluffor, Old Daniel Giles, Mr. Battie, Lord Lanfdowne, Dr. Moore, Little Count Rupee, and all those who look an eighth better or worse for the opening, know that I am right, in pronouncing the panegyrick of this learned ciaflick on the Stock Exchange.

"Prens

The Bengal Squad he fed, though wondrous nice;
Baring his currie took, and Scott his rice.
Loyal and open. liberal of cath,

(Not your damn'd dollars (), or Bank-paper trash)
Nor tax, nor loan he fear'd, at table free,
And drank the Minifter with three times three;
Till with a pun old Caleb () crown'd the whole,
"Confols, and not philofophy, confole."

He talk'd, like Indian (#) Rennell rather long;
And would at time regale you with a fong:
But feldom that; in mufick though a prig,
The little Doctor fwell'd, and look'd fo big:
Nay to Greek (x) notes would trill a Grecian ode,
In diatonick kid and Lydian mode,

And then with Burney, as his fit grew warmer,
Convers'd of Stentor, the great (y) throat-performer;
Or with Raimondi's fire, and warlike art,
Play'd fome French General's obligato part.
Banks gave him morning leffons how to drefs,
And Morgan (2) whifper'd courage and fineffe.

A Foct

"Prens moi là bon parti; laisse la tous les livres.
"Extrce-toi, mon fils, dans ces hautes fciences;
"Prens, an lieu d'un Platon, ce Guidon des Finances."
Avis de Boileau, Sat.8.

(s) This verfe was evidently written after the 26th of Feb. 1797, after the order of Council was fent to the Bank of England, when the whole nation was made to pass through the pillars of Hercules; or in plain English, to take dollars for current filver.

(1) Caleb Whitefoord, Efq.-N. B. If you do but touch him, puns ftand as ready as quils upon the fretful porcupine. I with him health and fpirits for many a year, in a green old age; and then with the Epinicion of Horace, Vita cedat,

uti conviva fatur.

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() Major James Rennell, the great Geographer of India, waw. A gentles man to whofe accuracy and extent of knowledge this country is confiderably indebted. But this has nothing to do with his converfation.

(x) Dr. Morofophos, the man of method, was rather troublesome to his friends on this fubject of Greek Mufick. He wished to país for another Meibomius. But there is still reafon to think that he never faw the three hymns to Calliope, Apollo, and Nemefis, printed with the Greek mufical notes to which they were fung, at the end of the Oxford edition of Aratus in 1672, by Dr. Fell, or the more accurate copy of thefe hymns in Mr. Burette's Memoire on this fubject. Memoires de l'Academie des Infcriptions, tom. 5.-Dr. Morofophos knew but little of the fyftem of the Lydian Mode in the diatonick genus. There is allo reafon to think that he knew as little, as Bishop Horfley, of the Пpochaμlavoμsvet, the Υπατη ἱπεων, or the Παρυπάτη μέσων, &c.

(y)" Stentor is celebrated by Homer as the moft illuftrious throat performer of antiquity." Burney's Hift. of Mufic. 4to. vol. 1. P. 340.

(z) Maurice Morgan, Efq; an ingenious writer, author of the pleasant Extravaganza on the Courage of Sir John Falstaff. Mr. Morgan is known to his friends by the name of Sir John. In his politicks, he is of the Lansdown School.

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A Poet too he was, not very bright,

Something between a Jerningham and (a) Knight:
He dealt in tragick, epick, critick lore,

With half, whole plans, and epifodes in ftore,
Method was all; yet would he feldom write,
He fear'd the ground-plot wrong, or-out of fight.
At laft the DOCTOR gave his friends a work!
(Not verfe, like Cowper, or high profe, like Burke,)
CHAMBERS ABRIDG'D! in footh 'twas all he read,
From fruitful A to unproductive Zed.

RICHARDSON, ROUSSEAU AND GOETHR.

From Thompson's Paradife of Tafte.

WHA

HAT other names fome other tombs might show,
(Such was our baste) we did not ftop to fee;
But moving onward, gained the vault of woe,
Where mournful paffion reach'd its laft degree.
For there eternal filence reign'd profound,
And all the naked wall, with horror hung;
And there one dying lamp o'er all around,
With quiv'ring flame, the light of darkness flung.
Full in the midft a fable coffin flood,

On which reclin'd the priest of virtue lay,
Of all that e'er effayed the melting mood,
Who rul'd the heart with most defpotic fway.
"Twas he who told fo well the touching tale,
Of proud Bologna's melancholy maid,
And taught the world Clariffa's fate to wail,
By tyrant force and hellish fraud betray'd.
Two penfive pupils at his feet were laid,

Who drew fweet pictures of domestic life;
Whose art in virtue's tend'reft robe array'd,
The forms of Wolmar's and of Albert's wife.
The friend of Julia, from her foul refin'd,

Obtain'd a balm to foothe his am'rous woe;
While here no rest could Werter's spirit find,
But rush'd indignant to the fhades below.

ACCOUNT of Books for 1796.