lower fide of the haftings were I was.-I fay nothing against Balfe.-Sir W. B. deny. ing the mob to be his, fome gentlemen on the other fide infifting upon his either explaining himself, or ftand convicted - He came to the bar of the huftings; one man came up and cried out, that no man fhould vote but for his bonour.I asked him, (this man) who gave him orders.-His anfwer was Sir William Beauchamp.”—Sir William then faid, "It is very true the man inpeaches me; upon my honour I am innocent; what can I fay more?

The mob continuing to knock the people unmercifully down, "I spoke to Sir W. B. again" continues Mr. Allen in his teftimony, and faid, "for God's fake, if they are not your mob, try if you can have any influence to prevent murder."Sir William's reply was, "What can I do? They are not mine (repeating upon his honour as he had before declared). Upon feeing fuch barbarity, I made ufe of fuch an expreffion to Sir W. that I believe was not proper to do, jumped over the huftings, feized the prifoner Quirk, and, I believe, I made ufe of this expreffion, Gd d-n you, do you mean to murder thefe fellows?The prifoner, I will fay that for him, left aff, but the other fellows that were with him, had a mind to have ferved me much in the fame manner-What I might have fuffered, whether I might lose my life or not, I owe my fafety to the prifoner Quirk, who held his club over my head, and cried out, be quiet, be quiet, what are you about? this is a friend of Sir William's.-It was very fortunate for me that he made that mistake, and I believe your lordships may be affured, that I did not attempt to undeceive him." Mr. Allen after this, relates the affair of the appointment at the Shakespear-and fays, that he did not intend to have appeared again Quirk as an evidence, but being abpenaed he was under a neceflity of attending, and attending was under an equal eceflity of fpeaking the truth.

Two evidences fucceed Mr. Allen, Richard Beale and William Beale, who fwear 10 Mr. Clarke's having been wounded, but neither faw the ftroke-and Mr: Foot, the fergeon, who attended the deceased, fwears, that to the best of his opinion, the wound, which he had received, was the Cafe of his death. Mr. Clay, head conRable of Holborn divifion, is pofitive to the entity of Quirk, having received two vio beat blows from him himself, and having fen him beat a man, whom he (Clay) took be a gentleman's fervant-yet notwithfanding this evidence, he adds, "I do not charge the prifoners with any thing."

The withefles for the prifoners are after this examined, the firft of whom, a gen deman of character and fortune, feems to throw the whole blame of the riot on the

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enemies of Sir William B. Proctor.. The jury, however, found back the prifoners guilty, notwithstanding the general opinion that Balfe, who was only feen among the rioters, and was never charged with friking, would be acquitted. And to the difhonour of humanity we must add, that a fhout of applaufe from the gallery attended the condemnation of these two unhappy wretches, who have fince been thought very proper objects of the royal clemency.

After the trial it was moved by the prifoners council, that there was a flaw in the indictment, by the grand jury's erasement of the words aiding and allifting, and begged that it might be debated previous to the court's pafing fentence, which was granted; and Monday morning, about eleven o'clock, it came on.

The council for the prifoners opened this debate, by making feveral ingenious, and critical obfervations on the nature of what as might appear to be erafements were not in fact fo; in particular that of a perfon figning his name, and very often drawing a line across it; which though it may look like an eraiement, was no more than what was very ufual, and did by no means invalidate the fignature. Serjeant Lee, on the other fide, remarked that thefe arguments were rather ingenious than fubftantial, and concluded with obferving, that by its being returned billa vera, it was fully fufficient; and that the erafement must be looked upon as intended. The arguments on both fides continued for near four hours, when Mr. Juftice Aton and the Recorder gave their opinion to the following purport. Judge Afton humanely obferved, that in a cafe where the lives of two perions were concerned, he would not at once pretend to determine without the cleareft conviction.. He faid he had previously weighed all the circumstances, very minutely, relative to this affair; and had the pleasure of having his opinion corroborated by Lord Chief Baron Parker, Juftice Gould, and Mr. Recorder ; he was therefore clear, he faid, in the indiament being valid. He further corroborated his opinion, by feveral precedents of a fimilar nature; and concluded with an ob fervation of that great lawyer, Haie, "That the picking out flaws in indictments, whereby juftice was evaded, was a fcandal to law, a degradation to justice, and a dif honour to God."

Mr. Recorder then proceeded to país fentence; previous to which he hoped that the fate of thefe two unhappy perfons would be a warning to all rioters; as nothing, he faid, could be more deftructive to the laws of fociety, particularly to elections, the eflence of English freedom; and that the procurers (if any there were, however dignified) as well as the procured, were not exempt, by our jaws, from the catastrophe.

A FA

NO nymph of the plain can I find

With my own little wench to compare ;

I fee all to love in her mind,

And nothing to blame in her air,

Her fparkling wit was own'd by all,
And if the charmer fung,
Why-"Headlong ftreams forgot to fall".
But O her plaguy tongue!

II.

A while be-goddess'd and be-prais'd,
A world obey'd her will!
But tho' the comet widely blaz'd,

We found it tranfient fill:

The wond'ring crowds, her beauty's boast!
That round her fondly hung,
Defpis'd the vixen in the toast,
And curft her plaguy tongue.
III.

Too feebly fhot, her fleeting fire

Scarce warm'd a morning dream— For myriads may with ease admire, Though not a foul esteem! Whene'er the talk'd to fix for life

A downward head we hung;
And all were fearful of a wife
With fuch a plaguy tongue.

IV.
Yet ftill her giddy courfe fhe drove,
And on her charms rely'd ;
For admiration, fcorning love,
And happiness for pride-
But fee, alas! the rofes fade-

And now no longer young,
She pines an old neglected maid,
And mourns her plaguy tongue.
V.

At fuch a fate ye fair ones ftart

And truft my honeft lays,
That one fincere, one worthy heart,

Out-counts a world of praise.
Then when from Cupid bows you claim,
With sweetness see them ftrung,
For love ne'er guides a virgin's aim
Who bears a plaguy tongue.

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galls,

And exclaim out ftill louder and louder; But there ne'er was more money expended in balls.

Or a greater confumption of perder.

The TRIUMPH of the ARTS. An ODE.` By the Rev. Dr. FRANCKLIN. Written on the Iftitution of the Royal Acade my, Jan. 1, 1769.

W

HEN Difcord late her baleful influence shed,

O'er the fair realms of Science and of Art, Neglected Genius bent his drooping head, And pierc'd with anguish ev'ry tuneful heart;

Apollo wept his broken lyre,

Wept to behold the mournful choir Of his lov'd mufes, now an exii'd train, And in their feats to fee Alecto reign. When lo! Britannia, to the throne Of goodness makes her forrows known; For never there did grief complain, Or injur'd merit plead in vain. The monarch heard her juft request, He faw, he felt, and he redress'd: Quick with a mafter band he tunes the firings, And harmony from difcord fpringe.

Thus good, by heaven's command from evil flows,

From Chaos thus of old creation rofe;

When order with confulion join'd,
And jarring elements combin'd,

To grace with mutual frength the great defign,

And fpeak the architect divine.

While Eaftern tyrants in the trophied car,
Wave the red banner of deftructive war,

In George's breaft a nobler flame
Is kindled, and a fairer fame
Excites, to cherish native worth,
To call the latent feeds of gen us forth,

To bid difcordant factions ceafe,
Aud cultivate the gentle arts of peace.

And lo! from this aufpicious day,
The Son of Science beams a purer ray;
Behold! a brighter train of
years,
A new Auguflan age appears;
The time, nor diftant far, fhall come,
When England's tafteful youth no more
Shall wander to Italia's Claffic thore;

No more to foreign climes fhall roam, In fearch or models better found at home. :

With rapture the prophetic mufe Her country's opening glory views, Already fees with wond'ring eyes, Our Titians and our Guidos rife, Sees new Palladios grace th'hiftoric page, And British Raphaels charm a future age.

bring,

To grace you Patron and your King, Bid Sculpture grave his honour'd name In marble lasting as his fame : Bid Painting's magic pencil trace The features of his darling race, And it flows thro' all the royal line, Glow with fuperior warmth and energy divine. If tow'ring Architecture fill

as

Can boaft her old creative skill,
Bid fome majestic structure rife to view,
Worthy him, and worthy you;

Where art may join with nature and with fenfe,

Splendor with tafte, with taste magnificence, Where strength may be with elegance combin'd,

The perfect image of its mafter's mind.

And, O! if with the tuneful throng The mufe may dare to mix her humble fong. In your glad train permit her to appear, Tho' poor, yet willing, and tho' rude, fin

On the fame Occafion. By Mr. HULL.

ET Science hail this happy year,

Let Fame its rifing glories fing,

When Arts unwonted luftse wear,

And boat a patron in their king; And here unrival'd shall they re gn, For George protects the polish'd train. To you just ripen'd into birth,

He gives the fair, the great defign; 'Tis your's, ye Sires of genuine worth, To bid the future artifts fhine; That Arts unrivall'd long may reign, Where George protects the polish'd train. 'Tis your's, O well felected band,

To watch where infant genius blows, To rear the flow'r with foft'ring hand, And ev'ry latent fwect disclose; That Arts unrivall d long may reign, Where George protects the polifh'd traine No more to diftant realms repair

For foreign a d, or borrow's rule, Beneath her monarch's gen'rous care Britannia founds a noble fcho.1, Where Arts unrivall'a hall remain, For George protects the polish'd train. So fhall her fons in Science bred,

Diffuse her Arts fm fhore to shore, And wide her growing genius fpread,

As round the world her thunders roar ; For He, who rules the fubject main, Great George, protects the polifh'd train.

A PROS

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A PROSAIC ODE TO PEACE. By a Noble Lord now refident at Altena. HE fates conduct us when they will, and where; for now (averfe to cold) we winter in a frigid clime approaching Greenland. A furious northern blast our rapid veel blew across the Belt; fwift as a fwallow skims along the Thames, or doves affrighted cut the yielding air. O England, Neptune's glory, abode of wifdom! in thee ('tis fayed) dwells Liberty divine. Saviour of England, Saviour of Bacchus and the Cyprian queen, omnifluent ocean, propitious prove. Rife up, celeftial goddess, from the deep; turn to fair Albion's coaft a lovely look, and fix your temples, on its fertile brow. Thy favourite all o'er the British ifle is found, tay myrtles fragrant in its gardens grow; cach free-born fwain, each beauteous nymph, every fcience which our empire deth adorn, shall greet thee welcome to our feabound hore. Al bail! gay Bacchus, victorious Venus, come! Let Mars, the destroyer of our thort lived race, be banished to the Euxine fea, or found his trumpet on the Thracian plain. Let Turks, and Ruffians this barbarous deity receive; whilst England, happy in its own extent, from all diffention fite, hall rule the waves in peace, in plenty, barmony and delight!-All hail! gay Baccus, victorious Venus, come! let full libation fream along the board, and marriage rites, emblems of peace, undisturbed remain; till with redoubled firength by wealth and rest increated,

If foes against our warlike fons combine,
Their conquer'd countries to our realins we
jain.

Long England fhall Neptunial power difplay,
The ocean triumph, and the earth obey.

A the of

Ta numerous and refpectable meeting

dier, held at the Mile-End aûembly-room, the following inftructions were unanimoufly red to, and directed to be tranfmitted to the knights of the thire.

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To John Wilkes, Efq; and John Glynn, Efq; Knights of the Shire for the County of Middiefex.

"Gentlemen,

We, the freeholders of the county of Middlefex, direct and infruct you our repreientatives in parliament,

1. To endeavour to continue to us, and to confirm our old conftitutional and only rightful trial-by jury.

2. To promote a frict parlamentary inquiry into the tranfactions of the military in S. George's Fields, on Tuesday the 10th of May laff.

3. To promote a like inquiry into the rio and murders committed at Brentford on the 8th of laft December.

4. To examine into the administration of justice in this county; particularly into the prefent ftate of the commiffion of the peace.

5. And, as far as in your power, to promote an inquiry into the rights of the public to the territorial revenue arifing from the conquefts in India.".

John Sawbridge, Efq; member of Parliament for Hithe in Kent, was, by the general voice, placed in the chair.

The inftruction relating to the trial by jury was moved by the Rev. Mr. Horne.

The three inflructions relative to inquiries into the tranfactions of St. C e'e Fields, the riot at Brentford, and the commiffion of the peace, were moved by James Adair, Etq;

And

The inquiry, relative to the territorial revenue of the conquefts in India, was propofed by Benjamin Hayes, Efq;

The three gentlemen abovementioned were appointed to convey thefe inftructions to the knights of the fhire, and defired to repeat to them the reafons (as well thofe advanced by themfelves as by others in the courfe of the debate) and the motives which induce the county to form fuch instructions at prefent.

天

MONDAY, Jan. 2.

IT a wardmote held by the
lord mayor,
St. Bride's
Church, for the election of an
alderman for the ward of Far-

ringdon-without, in the room

of the late Sir Francis Golling, Mr. Thomas Bromwich and John Wilkes, were declared candidates. On a fhew hands 100 to 1 2ppeared for M. Wilkes; But a poll being demanded for Mr. Bromwich, it came on at one o'clock, and after two hours pole, Mr. Bromwich declined: The numbers were, For Bromwich Wilkes whereupon the latter was declare duely

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