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The Cafe of the Middlesex Election confidered. June.

not neceffary. It was given in evidence to the jury, that the whole number of electors were thirty, of whom twenty-eight were lawfully affembled for the election of an alderman :-That for this office there

were three candidates, Mr. Bigges, who had fourteen votes, the faid Mr. Taylor, who had thirteen, and Mr. Kingfter, who had one vote; but that Mr. Bigges was not duly qualified to be elected into this office, being neither a freeman of the corpontion, nor an inhabitant of the city of Bath.

One Bith, and another witnefs, gave evidence that they made the objection to Bigges, at the time of the election; and that the electors, at the time the candidates were propofed, difcourfed among themselves about Bigges, as a perfon not qualified.

On the other fide there was one witness who was prefent at the time, and denied that he heard any fuch notice given by Bish.

Upon the whole of this cafe, Lord Chief Juftice Lee, one of the moft cautious judges that ever prefided in a court, and whofe judgments are held in the highest esteem, gave the following direction to the jury,

That if they were fatisfied the electors had notice of this want of qualification in Bigges, that then the thirteen votes for Taylor were to be looked upon as fufficient to determine the election in his favour; and he told the jury, that if they thought the fourteen had voted for a perfon, whom they knew to be unqualified, at the time they voted for him, their votes must be confidered as thrown away, and they were to be deemed as not voting at all, or as confenting to the election of Taylor: for that their diffent

could no way be regarded, because their vot ing for a perfon not qualified, was the fame as if they bad voted for a perfon not exifting, or dead. And therefore they could not be confidered as vocing against Mr. Taylor, fince no man could wete against another, but by voting for fomebody else. So that, on the whole, he considered thefe fourteen votes as flung away, and of no more avail than if they had not voted at all. Upon this, the jury found a verdict for Taylor; and a motion was afterwards made for a new trial.

On fhewing caufe against the motion for a new trial, feveral laws were cited in fupport of Lord Lee's direction to the jury. Among others, the cafe of the Queen and Hugh Bofcawen was cited, from a note of Mr. Werg's, which was an information, in the nature of a quo warranto, against Mr. Boscawen, to fhew by what authority he exercifed the office of one of the capital burgeffes of Trans, in the county of Cornwall. It appeared on fhewing caufe, that Mr. Bofcawen had tea votes, and that one Robert D

had

ten likewife; but that no perfon was capable of being elected unless he was, at the time of the election, an inhabitant of the borough. Mr. Bofcawen had a house near the town, but was not an inhabitant of the town; and though the court might have granted the information against Mr. Bofcawen, on the foundation of an equality of votes, yet Lord Parker, on making the rule abfolute, faid, "He confidered thofe ten votes for the unqualified perfon as thrown away, and that the other person was duly elected;" from which the rest of the court did not diffent.

POETICAL ESSAY S.

To a Lady, on ber Birth-Day.

H! be thou bleft with all that heaven W

Он

can send :

Long life, long youth, long pleasure-and a

triend!

Not with thofe toys the woman-world admire,
Riches that vex, and vanities that tire:
Let joy, or eafe; let affluence, or content;
And the gay confcience of a life well-fpent,
Calm every thought; infpirit every grace;
Glow in thy heart; and fmile upon thy face!
Let day improve on day, and year on year;
Without a pain, a trouble, or a fear!
And ah! (fince death muft that dear frame
destroy),

Dve by fome fudden extacy of joy :

In fome foft dream may thy mild foul remove,
And be thy latest gafp, a figh of love !

SOLITUDE.
From the Same,

HAT are the falling rills, the pen
dant fhades,
The morning bow'rs, the evening colonnades;
But foft receffes for th uneafy mind,
To figh unheard in, to the paffing wind!
Lo! the ftruck deer, in fome fequefter'd party
Lies down to die (the arrow in his heart);
There hid in fhades, and waiting day by day,
Inly he bleeds, and pants his foul away.
ODE for bis MAJESTY's Birth Day,
June 4, 1769.

ATRON of arts, at length by thee
Their home is fix'd: thy kind decree
Has plac'd their empire here.

No more unheeded fhall they wafte
Their treasures on the fickle tafte
Of each fantaftick year.

Judgment

POETICAL ESSAYS in JUNE, 1769.

Judgment fhall frame each chafte defign,
Nore'er from Truth's unerring line

The fportive artift roam:
Whether the breathing but he forms,
With nature's tints the canvas warms,

Or fwells, like heaven's high arch, th' im-
perial dome.

Fancy, the wanderer, fhall be taught

To own leverer laws :
Spite of her wily wanton play,

Spite of thofe lovely errors, which betray
Th' enchanted foul to fond applaufe,
Ev'n fhe, the wanderer, fhall be taught
That nothing truly great was every wrought
Where Judgement was away.
Through ofer twigs th' Acanthus rofe:
Th' idea charms! th' artift glows!

But 'twas his skill to pleafe
Which bade the graceful foliage spread
To crown the ftately column's head

With dignity and ease.

When great Apelles, pride of Greece,
Frown'd on the almost-finish'd piece,
Defpairing to fucceed,

What though the miffile vengeance pafs'd
From his rah hand, the random caft
Might dafh the foam, but kill had form'd
the fteed,

Nor lefs the Phidian arts approve
Labour, and patient Care,
Wate'er the skilful artists trace,
Laocoon's pangs, or foft Antinous' face.
By kill, with that diviner air,
The Delian god does all but move;
'Twas fill gave terrors to the front of Jove,
To Venus every grace.
-And fhall each facred feat,

The vales of Arno, and the Tufcan ftream,
No more be visited with pilgrim feet?
No more on sweet Hymettus' fummits

dream

The fons of Albion? or below,
Where Ilyus waters flow,
Trace with awe the dear remains
Of mould ring urns, and mutilated fanes?
-Far be the thought. Each facred feat,
Each monument of ancient fame,
Shall fill be vifited with pilgrim feet,
And Albion gladly own from whence the
caught the flame.

Still hall her ftudious youth repair
Beneath their king's protecting care,

To ev'ry clime which art has known;
And rich with fpcils from every coaft
Return, 'till Albion learn to boast
An Athens of her own.

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Be you pleafed to fmile, or be pleased to
grumble,
[humble.
Be whatever you pleafe, I am fill your moft
As to laugh is a right only given to man,
To keep up that right is my pride and my

pan.

too

Fair ladies, don't frown, I meant woman [to youWhat's common to man, must be common You all have a right your fweet mufcles to [young girl; From the old fmirking prude, to the titt'ring And ever with pleasure my brains I could spin, To make you all giggle, and you, ye Gods, grin.

carl,

In this prefent fummer, as well as the past,
To your favour again we prefent Dr. Laft,
Who, by wondertul feats in the papers re-
counted,
[mounted.

gun,

From trudging on foot, to his chariot is
Amongst the old Britons, when war was be-
[could flay one :
Charioteers would flay ten, while the foot
So, when doctors on wheels with dispatches
are fent,

Mortality bills rife a thousand per cent.
But think not to phyfic that quack'ry's con-
[mankind-

fin'd,

All the world is a ftage, and the quacks are
There's trade, law, and flate-quacks; nay,

would we but fearch,

We should find-heaven blefs us!-fome quacks in the church!

The ftiff band, and stiff bob of the methodi

race, [grace, Give the balfam of life and the tincture of And their poor wretched patients think much good is done them,

Though blifters and cauftics are ever upon

them.

Ås
for law and the state, if quack`ry's a curse,
Which will make the good bad, and the bad
will make worse, [gular brother,
We fhould point out the quack, from the re-
They are wifer than I who can tell one from
L'other!
[tients, ftand trial,
Can the stage with its bills, puffs, and pa-
Shall we find out no quacks in the theatre
royal?
[the town,
Some dramatical drugs that are puff d on
Caufe many wry faces, and fcarce will g
down.
[delight,
Nay an audience fometimes will in quack'ry
And fweat down an author fome pounds in
one night.
[by the weather,
To return to our quack-fhould he, help'd
Raife laughter and kind perfpiration together,
Should his noftrums of hip and of vapours

- but cure ye,

His chariot he well can deferve, I affure ye.
'Tis easy to fet up a chariot in town,
And easier fill is that chariot laid down.
He petitions by me, both as doctor and lover,
That you'll not ftop his wheels, or his cha-
riot tip over:

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Fix him well, I beseech you, the worst on't would be,

Should you overturn bim, you may overset me.

But I'm afraid to tell you what about; Becaufe 'twere bold in me, perhaps, you'll fay, To come to afk you how you like the play; Yet that's my bufinefs; nay, more free to make,

I'm come to beg you'd like it for my fake. The author took me in his arms juft now, My dear, fays he, he kiss'd me too, I vowIf you'll go out and make the audience clap, I'll give you ribbons and a fine new cap : Befides, he promis'd me, next time he comes Behind the fcenes, to bring me fugar-plumbs.

But whatfoe'er you think the play to be, When you go home I'm fure you'll talk of me. Says Lady Stingo to Sir Gilbert Mild, "At Foote's! Sir Gilbert, have you feen the child?

Tis really a curiofity to view her; Our little Betfy is a mountain to her: Such action, fuch a tongue-and yet I query If the be five years old-a very Fairy!" Sir Gilbert answers, with a peevith nod, «Phaw! let the little huffy have a rod. There are old folks enough to play the fool: Children, my lady, fhould be sent to school:" And fo they fhould, the naughty ones, no doubt,

Who'll neither books nor needle learn without: To be at work my fingers ftill are itchingThefe flounces here are all of my own ftitching.

[Taking up and fhewing her frock. But is my prate diflik'd? For after all I am but young, 'tis true, and fomewhat fmall;

And taller ladies, I muft needs confefs, Might speak an epilogue with more addrefs. However, fome few things I have to plead ; Firft, 'pon my word and credit, I'm a maid. Will that pafs here for merit ?-I don't know

I'm a new face-which gen'rally does fo. And if you want me louder, taller, bolder, Have patience-1 fhall mend, as I grow older.

On Eternity, by Dr. Gibbons,

Tell all the spires of grafs the meads
Produce, when fpring propitious leads
The new-born year; tell all the drops
The night upon their bended tops
Sheds in fott filence, to difplay
Their beauties with the rifing day;
Tell all the fands the ocean laves,
Tell all its changes, all its waves;
Or tell, with more laborious pains,
The drops its mighty mass contains:
Be this aftonishing account
Augmented with the full amount
Of all the drops the clouds have shed,
Where'er their watry fleeces fpread,
Through all time's long protracted tour,
From Adam to the prefent hour:
Still fhort the fum; nor can it vie
With the more numerous years, that lie
Enbofom'd in eternity.

Was there a belt that could contain
In its vaft orb the earth and main,
With figures was it cluster'd o'er,
Without one cypher in the score:
And could your lab'ring thought affign
The total of the crowded line;
How fcant th' amount ! Th' attempt how vai
To reach duration's endless chain!
For when as many years are run,
Unbounded age is but begun.

Attend, O man, with awe divine, For this eternity is thine!

ODE to the MINISTER OF BRENTFORD,

Mars gravior fub pace late. Claudian.

HEN heaven's inevitable rage

W For vengeance marks a guilty age,

Debafing firft the mind,

From the chill'd bofom it withdraws
Attachment to the public caufe,

And love of humankind.

From hence deriv'd the fordid foul,
That tamely brooks the proud contrǝul

Of arbitrary fway;

Hence penfion'd peers, and gatter'd Blaves,
Hence the long lift of fools and knaves,
That fight, or vote for pay.
Yet fome there are in every clime,
Who, truly great, fhall foar fublime,

With godlike virtue brave:
Undaunted view, where Envy shakes
In bloody folds her famifh'd fnakes,
Or Lethe rolls its wave.

With thee, O HORNE! thy patriot mane Shall freedom confecrate to Fame,

And hail thee for her own;
For thou shalt haften to her aid,
And yet unpenfion'd, and unpaid,

Support her tott'ring throne.
"Go then to conqueft, gladly go,"
Where honour points, direct the blow,
Truth warring on thy fide;
The minions of a fervile age
Shall tremble at thy honest rage,
And drop their crefted pride.

POETICAL ESSAYS in JUNE, 1763.

Or, if a nobler ardour fire,
Like great Alcæus ftrike the lyre,

And call forth patriot ftrains! Swift fhall thy measures float around, Till fartheft Britain catch the found, Through all her charter'd plains.

Methinks ev'n now, on yonder plain, Yet wet with blood of Britons flain,

I view a mournful band; Lo, burfting from the yawning tomb, Pale Spectres glide athwart the gloom,

And curfe the guilty land.

While half-obfcur'd, and half-confeft,
Young Allen bares his bleeding breast,
And points the fatal wound;
Still as he leads, the ghaftly crew
His heav'n-directed steps pursue,
And yell prophetic round.

"No more on this devoted ifle
Shall banish'd freedom deign to smile,
Or peace or fafety dwell,
Till, long defer'd, be duly paid
Fit vengeance to each injur'd shade,
That here untimely fell.

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Thee, thee, we call, whofe dire command
To flaughter fir'd the coward band,
Britannia's endless shame;

O give the rav'ning furies way,
Already hell demands its prey,

And heav'n allows the claim. Remorse and guilt, with anguish join'd, Thele, these fhall goad thy conscious mind With unrelenting care;

When doom'd to mingle with the dead,
We too will talk around thy bed,
And fhriek aloud despair.

But thou, O HORNE, to virtue true,
The great, the gen'rous task pursue,

By native worth defign'd:
For know, from confecrated hands,
No purer off'ring heav'n demands,
Than freedom to mankind.
Let others, doom'd to guilty ftate,
Cringe at the levies of the great,

And aid ambition's plan;
Nor pomp, nor pow'r his foul delights,
Who dares defend the gen'ral rights,

And bear the name of man.
When bright Aftræa's charms once more
Revifit this her laft-lov'd fhore,

And Britons dare be free;

Each grateful tongue fhail chaunt thy praise,]
And ev'ry mufe devote her bays
To weave a wreath for thee."

OSCAR.

THE MONTHLY CHRONOLOGER.

FRIDAY, May 26.

Motion was made in the court of Common-Pleas, for a rule for a noble lord to fhew caufe why Mr. Wilkes's demurrer fhould not be withdrawn, and the proceedings go on against his lordship, they having been ftopped by his plea of Mr. Wilkes's being an outlaw. The rule was granted, upon Mr. Serjeant Glynn's producing a certificate from the court of King's Bench, that Mr. Wilkes's outlawry was illegal.

TUESDAY, 30.

This morning, about two o'clock, a terrible fire broke out at a timber merchant's in Peter-street, Saffron-hill, which confumed the fame, and twelve more houses. A child is faid to have perished in the flames. Some attribute this difafter to fireworks the preceding evening.

A court of aldermen was held at Guildhall, when the nephew of Sir Matthew Blakifron appeared with a letter from Sir Matthew, defiring leave to refign his gown, on account of his ill ftate of health; but after fome debates the affair was poftponed till next court of aldermen. June, 1769.

John Wilkes, Efq; was again brought by a Habeas Corpus, in as private a manner as pof fible, from the King's Bench Prifon to Serjeants Inn, before Mr. Justice Gould, in order to difcharge his bail.

WEDNESDAY, 31.

The judges met in Lord Chief-Juftice Mansfield's chambers, Weftminster-hall, and chofe their circuits for the fummer aflizes, as follows; viz.

Home, Lord Mansfield, Mr. Baron Smythe.] Norfolk, Juftice Wilmot, Mr. Baron Adams. Oxford, Baron Parker, Mr. Justice Yeates. Midland, Mr. Juft. Clive, Mr. Jutt. Bathurst, Northern, Mr. Juft.ould, Mr. Baron Perrot. Wettern, Mr. Juft. Atton, Mr. Juft. Willes. THURSDAY, June 1.

There was a very numerous meeting of the proprietors of the Eaft-India flock, at their houfe in Leaden-hall-ftreet; Sir George Colebroke in the chair; when Sir George told them, the directors hd prepared extracts from the aft difpatches, which were ready, and they were accordingly read twice over by one of the clerks, and contain the following matter:

"That the fecret committee at Bengal had for fome time observed Sujah Dowla augTt menting

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menting his forces, and difciplining them with great conftancy; that in confequence of this they had di patched three gentlemen to demand the reafon of it; and that they had no doubt, from the known abilities of thefe gentlemen, they would reduce the chief to alter his measures.

That fome letters received from Madraft complained of the great scarcity of filver, which was every day encreafing; and were afraid they should not, in confequence of this fcarcity, be able to make the usual remittances to China.

That other letters from the coaft mentioned an alliance between Heyder Ally, and another chief, which they were apprehenfive would be injurious to the company's affairs in general-and that the former of these, with a body of thirty thousand horfe and foot, had furprized Col. Wood, and retaken a Small fort, which the colonel had wrefted from them fome time before; but not withftanding this, Col. Wood, though ten times inferior in numbers, killed them two thoufand men, befide the capture of many chiefs, and that he was preparing for another attack, which they had no doubt of his fucceeding in."

After fome altercation on the fubjects of thefe advices, a queftion was proposed by Sir James Hodges, that a paragraph should be inferted in the public papers, properly attefted by the court, to quiet the minds of the proprietors without doors; which was carried unanimoufly. In pursuance of this refolution the following paragraph appeared in the evening.

"Eaft India Houfe, June 1, 1769. Extracts of the company's advices lately receiv ed from India, being this day read to a very numerous body of proprietors in a general court, it appeared to them unanimously, that affairs of the company were in a flourishing fituation, and that there was no real caufe for the alarm which has lately happened. Signed by the special order of the faid Court,

PETER MICHELL, Sec." A grand mafqued ball was given this day at Hackwood in Hampshire, by his grace the Duke of Bolton. The company began to affemble between feven and eight, and by twelve, five different apartments were opened, in which the moft elegant fide-boards were prepared: the illuminations were prettily conceiv ed, and finely executed; as was also a lighted temple, and fome other buildings in the gardens.

The dreffes in general were extremely magnificent. The duchess of Bolton was in the habit of a Tartarian princefs, embroidered with diamonds. Lady Waldegrave and Lady Mary Hay, as eaftern fultanas, very richly dreffed. Lady Harriet Williams and Lady Gideon were covered with a profufion

'June

of jewels. Two young ladies, habited like girls of Patmos, were remarked for their great beauty and drefs. Lady Stanhope in the character of a French Nofegay girl, which the fupported with great humour. Lady Archer in the character of Ovifa. Mr. Askew, of the Guards, in the character of the Devil, and admirably kept up. Mrs. Ligonier was an elegant Savoyard, and a young lady who accompanied her a beautiful Chanoinefe. Mrs. Garrick made a very fine figure in the Venetian carnival habit. A gentleman, in the character of Tiddy Doll, difplayed great humour. The duke of Manchetter appeared in the old English habit. Capt. Deburgh in the character of Oẩmyn. Capt. Pye as Tancred, and his lady as Ruben's wife. Two young ladies in the habits of Ventals. Mr. James clothed as pope, very well fupported. Lady Mary Lowther, in the character of an old woman, afforded infinite humour. The duke of Bolton wore a domino.

The whole company kept on their mafks till about one o'clock, when they removed down to fupper, to which they were conveyed through a coridor beautifully illuminated with wax lights: they did not begin to depart till paft fix in the morning.

MONDAY, 5.

Was obferved as the anniverfary of his majefty's birth-day, who yesterday entered into the 32d year of his age. For the ode, fee the poetry for this month.

A difpute happened in the ball room at St. James's between the R. and F. ambassadors.

TUESDAY, 6.

At a court of aldermen held at Guildhall, Sir Matthew Blakifton's defire to refign his gown was again taken into confideration, but the court not thinking his reasons fufficient, determined not to comply with his request.

This day alfo a meeting of the fupporters of the Bill of Rights was held at the London Tavern, (Robert Jones, Efq; in the chair) when a circular letter for raifing contribu tions was approved, and copies ordered to be tranfmitted to the feveral counties and borough towns in England; after which feveral fubfcriptions were received, and the fociety adjourned to Tuesday the 10th of October.

WEDNESDAY, 7.

His royal highness the duke of Glouces ter fet out for Harwich to embark for Holland, on his intended tour.

THURSDAY, 8.

The powder mills at Moulfey took fire, and blew up; by which accident two mea were killed.

TUESDAY, 13.

Mr. Wilkes appeared in the court of Common Pleas, Weftminster hall, before Lord

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