588 POETICAL ESSAYS in NOVEMBER, 1769.

REFLECTIONS on a CLEAN SHIRT.'

AIL bright invention! by whofe friend

Hly aid,

This fhirt once more fo decently is made!
Goddefs of arts and industry arife,
Affert thy legal empire in the fkies.
With fmiles behold the falutary rub,
And crown the labours of the daily tub.
But blefs that friend to Covent-Garden
bloods,

Who first invented proper foap and suds.
This only fhirt occafionally white,

May now appear, Lucinda, in thy fight,
The Park once more with credit it may
view,

Nor shrink behind the fable of its hue.
An added air of decency difclofe,
And meet respect from Tomkins or the Rofe.
Some friend, perhaps, may take it home to
dine,

And treat its master with a gill of wine,
Thanks to my stars it does not look so mean,
But feems tol-lol, and comfortably clean.

Genius of true benevolence arise,
And mark this era with indignant eyes,
Where fools are rais'd to livings and to
place,

And want of honour dignifies his grace.
Where drefs in triumph by the follies led
Sets off the mean and defpicable head;
And taudry lace finds out the happy art
To gild the fordid bafeness of the heart,-
Why did I learn in these degen'rate days
To run from follid pudding after praise ?
To hold the mirror to a rafcal's eyes,
And lash a rev'rend villain in disguise?
O that the stars this bofom could create
Low as my lot, and humble as my fate!
Without one fpark of animating fire,
One with refin'd, or elegant desire !
Then had I paft in opulence my days,
And felt advancement's falutary rays;
Had known the utmost value of an hour,
And lick'd the footftool of fuperior pow'r:
A villain's crimes had flatter'd and excus'd,
Smil'd when he smil'd; and when he
frown'd, abus'd;

On modeft worth had infolently trod,
Traduc'd my friend, and fcandaliz'd my
God.

Thefe, thefe, alas! are now the only
ways

To gain preferment, or to rife to praise.
Thefe methods now fupport the meaneft
caufe,
[plaufe;
And purchase favour, friendship, and ap-
The vileft slave that infamy can brand,
Or midnight murder blacken with a hand,
Who bafely triumph'd o'er the widow's fears,
And laugh'd at helpless innocence in tears;
Whose very wife, with proftituted charms,
He took, all reeking, from licentious arms,
And ow'd a mean or despicable place
To fomething more than credible disgrace.

Dress him but well, his company's defir't,
His life approv'd, his character admir'd;
Protection Imiles complacently on high,
And favour views him with its fondef tyt
Till, by degrees, to dignity he grows,
And foars to honour bafely as he rofe.

Far other fate on modeft, worth attends,
Of means bereft, and deftitute of friends;
In this wide world by fortune fet afar,
The poor poffeffor of an only coat.
Yet nobly fcorns by infamy to please,
Or rife by steps fo fcandalous as thee.
Tafte to his wants no liberty allows,
But ftares to fee, and reddens if he bows
And not alone regardless of his guife,
Affects to laugh, and publickly defpife.
The choice companions of his happier de
Salute with pride's moft defpicable gaze;
Refufe to footh the sharpness of diftrefs,
And blush to meet his fhabbinefs of dress.
In vain the poor afflicted is poffett
Of all the virtues of the human breaft:
In vain he's honeft, fenfible, and kind,
Politely bred, and modeftly refin'd;-
No eye that fhuns, munificent, bestows
A means to purge the scandal of his clothes;
No feeling breast the leaft affiftance lends,
Because he needs the bounty of his friends;
In vain 'tis known how greatly he hu
Becaufe, alas! he wants to be reliev'd!
griev'd,

Yet humble merit never fhould despair,
But learn to feel, and study how to bear.
Implicit rev'rence the almighty will,
Nor always think that poverty's an ill.
Be less expert to wound its own repofe,
Nor Atrive to raise imaginary woes.

If means of wealth and honour are deny'd,
No world will envy or condemn his pride;
No fawning flave a feign'd respect will pay,
Appear to fmile, and ftudy to betray.
No mind ambitious infolently blame,
Traduce his deeds, and vilify his fame:
If heav'n's high wifdom has been pleas'd to
The humble means to furnish him with
thed
[bread;
Or only heave to worship and adore,
The rifing figh fhould fwell his heart no more;
Lefs true content, magnificently dreft,
The ermin'd wretch finds center'd in his
breaft;

To fteps which truth and virtue should de-
Who owes his boasted conféquence and rife
- Spife:

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To figh in fplendor, and to pine in ftate,
Doom'd by the justice of avenging fate,
Her sharpelt woes eternal confcience brings,
And wakens guilt to aggravared ftings;
Reflection haunts him in her dread extremes,
And fpreads diftraction through his mid-

night dreams;

His flight purfues and follows him behind,
To murder all the comforts of his mind.-
While peace holds watch on lowly virtue's
door,
[poor,
And thares fome pleasure to the worthy
Her

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A ftriking Pilure of Contradictions.

Her fresheft rofes on their pillows ftrews,
And nightly crowns it with a safe repose;
Preferves a calm tranquillity from hurt,
And gives contentment to an only fhirt.

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To the PRINTER, &.. SIR,

Will tell you a ftory which I tranfcribed from a fragment of an old book of voyages. The name of the island, on which the author was caft away, happens to be torn out; nor is there any thing remaining that might enable me to form a probable conjecture in what part of the globe it is fits

ated.

We were then, fays the author, conducted to the market-place, where we obferved a man tolerably well dreft, confined in a cage, and a prodigious concourfe of people dancing round him, fhouting Liberty! Liberty! On afking the meaning of all this,

That man in the cage, faid our conductor, is the genius of Liberty, our chief idol : contradiction is our primum mobile, the fpring of all our actions, and therefore we always worship Liberty in a cage, And, pray, fir, I replied, does the genius fubmit to his confinement voluntarily? No, I was anfwered, we accufed him of finging a ballad, which we proved he did not fing, and therefore, according to our principle of contradic. We tion, we condemned him to the cage." then quitted the market-place, and proceeded to take a view of the other parts of the town. As we walked along, I had the following conversation with our conductor, which to avoid repetition, I fhall fet down in the way of dialogue.

B. I fuppofe you feed the genius on bread and water.

C. No; I told you that we are guided in all our actions by contradiction. We feed him better than our king, whom, for the fame reason, we conftantly abufe, and endeavour to make as miterable as we

can.

B. I understand then you are governed by a king.

vern.

C. No: we have a king, whom we goOur conftitution is the finest in the world. It is neither monarchical, aridocratical, nor democratical; but an incomprehenfible mixture of all three.vo – 1300 4 B. Incomprehenfible! What do not you understand your own form of government ?C. No, but we like it the better for that. B. What is the chief prerogatives of your king?

C. To beg his bread, and be denied the privilege of chufing his own fervants.

B. And what is the peculiar business of
the aristocratical part of your legiftature?
C To poize the ballance between the
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589 other two branches, by always leaping into one fcale.

B. The democratical part

C. O, they are the chief guardians of our liberty, which they religiously preferve by leaping into the fame fcale with the other,

B. How do you elect thefe guardians of your liberty?

C. Free elections, fir, all free elections; that is, we fell them our votes as dear as pof fible.

B. And fo then you are governed by these three branches, as you call them,

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C. No we confitute them our governors, and then we govern them; they are our fer

vants.

B. Do you pay them wages?,

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C. No; they pay us; and we pay another
to pay them.

B. Strange fyftem! If I understand, you
right, these legislative fervants have no power
at all.
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C. Very great power. They have the power to take from us all our money, and to break our heads with it for diverfion. If any of us, their maffers, fnap his finger at one of their flaves, they have the power to fine, imprison, and even condemn him to worship on his knees the idol which they have fet up.

B. And who are the judges of his offence?
C. They themfelves.

B: What! themselves the judges in offences committed against themselves? Monftrous!

C. 'Tis even fo. But what you will think a ftill greater proof of the excellence of our conftirution, when these fervants of ours are affembled, and employed in tranfecting our bufinefs, we fuffer them to shut the door against their masters, at the instigation of the most infignificant and weakest of their members; and this we fuffer, because it is the moft effectual way to destroy our conftitution, which we endeavour to deflroy, becaufe it is the happieft conftitution in the world.

B. Well, and how do you treat your king?
C. When we don't like what he fays, we
tell him he is a damned liar. We call him
the father of his people, and the best of
Marit sta
kings, because we diflike every action of his
life, ads wor

B. How do you agree among one another?
Are you unanimous in your political opinions?
C. By no means. We are divided into
two parties, called Wigs and Night-caps.
B. Pray what are thofe ?,

C. By Wigs we mean friends to the king, and the prefent royal family, by the latter are underflood the friends to another family, that pretend to a prior right to the gown.

B. So that the Wigs have all the lucrative employments, and are the king's particular C. There favourites,

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C. There again you are maken: he prefers the Night-caps.

B. You aftonifh me! and are these Nightcaps about his peifon ?

C. Because they have always been the inverate enemies of his family,

This, fir, is all I can recover of this frange fragment, and am

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expreffed their diffatisfaction by groans, hiffes, and other marks of infult.

SATUADAY, H4.

At a meeting of the borgeffes of Newcafle, Sir F. B. Delaval was placed in the chair, petition was agreed to, and ordered to be engroffed for figning. There are two petitions will be prefented from this town; one in the name of the burgeffes, the other in that of the freeholders of the town and County.

MONDAY, 13.

The lottery began drawing at Guildhall. Lord Effingham has obtained leave of his majesty to ferve as a voluntier in the Ruffian feet; and his lordship goes on board Rear Admiral Elphinfton, as foon as he arrives at any port.

A meeting was held at Derby in the county hall, in which a petition was read and agreed to.

TUESDAY, 14.

This day both houfes of parliament met at Wer miniter, pursuant to their laft proroga tion, and were further prorogued to Turfday the 9th of January, then to meet for the dispatch of business.

THURSDAY, 16.

One of the law-courts was moved against fome perfons for demanding and receiving 5 3d of a gentleman at the bar, for admiting him into court to hear a late remark ble trial; when the court feverely reprimanded them, and declared they had no right to receive any money on any occafion for admittance.

John Burn, Efq; mayor of Berwick, at the requeft of feveral of the burgefles, held a guild to confider of a petition; when, notwithstanding much influence used to dif countenance the measure, the motion was carried by a great majority.

FRIDAY, 17.

The court of King's Bench was moved against Samuel Vaughan, Efq; in confequence of which the fia patriot's letter and affidavit were read in court.

TUESDAY, 21.

A motion was made in the court of King's Bench, to enlarge the imprisonment of Mr. Bingley, and that he might have benent of the rules; but the court were of opinion, that it co ld not be granted

SCOTLAND.

Glafgow, Oct. 23. The earl of Eglington, difcovering one Mango Campbell, an excite officer, flooring in his grounds, went up to him, and infifted on his delivering up his gun, which Campbell retufed: in the difpute, the particulars of which are not yet certainly known, Campbell that his lordship in the belly, of which wound the earl foon after died. His lorethip is fucceeded in titles and eftate, by his only brother, the Hon. Archibald Montgomery, Efq; governor of

591 Dunbarton caffle, and colonel of the gift regiment of foot.

Edinburgh, Nov. 12. On Wednesday night laft, the waters came down with fuch impetuofity from the adjacent hil's, as to sweep off the corn mill and new-built bridge near Wefter Dugginston. At the fame time, the valuable coal of Cowper, near Innerefk, was quite drowned; the emptying whereof will require both much labour and length of time. AMERICA.

Bolton, September 7. Early on Thursday
evening laft, a difference aiofe at the British
coffee-houte in this town, between James
Otis, Efq; and John Robinfon, Efq; the
latter demanding atisfaction for certain ex-
preffions in a publication-figned by Mr. Otis,
in the Bofton Gazette of Monday laft. Mr.
Robinfon, in the prefence of the public
company in the coffee-rom; attempted to
puil him by the nofe, and, failing in his at-
tempt, he immediately ftruck at him with
his cane, againft which Mr. Otis defended
himself, and returned the compliment. A
clofe engagement then enfued, and Mr. Otis
having difarmed his antagonist, feveral per-
fons in the room fell upon Mr. Otis with
cutlaffes, canes, and other weapons, and a
general cry was, Kill him! Kill him! A
young gentlemen, Mr. John Gridley, paffing
by the room, and feeing Mr. Otis treated in
fo ungentleman-like a manner, prefied in,
and endeavouring to interpofe, was also at-
tacked in the manner Mr. Otis was, by as
many as could come near him. Mr. Otis
and Mr. Gridley were carried off much
wounded, and it is thought, had not the
people come in to their aftance, the confe-
quence of this ungenerous affault would have
been fatal.

Extract of a letter from Virginia, Sept. 11,
1769. On Thurfday the 7th of this month,
after many dreadful clouds, frightful in their
imagined contents, had been wagging about,
as the fields, loaded with their crops of corn
and tobacco, were very prom fing, and every
thing moft delightful to the poor, a wind at
north-eaft arofe, and as foon as it had spread
them over the face of the heavens tor one
general rain, it died away ull near bed-
time, and then began to blow beyond the
power or expreffion: it did not rain till two
o'clock in the morning; but when the dif
folving rains came on, every one had caule
to with fer broad day, to fee but a chance to
fave themfelves: for the strongest and newest
built houfes, by the violence of both wind
and rain, were
re hardly a fecurity against their
dreadful eff:&t‹, The water pouring cown
in fuch mighty torrents, tome few thought
of boring holes n their floors to give it vent:
in this fituation it continued till two in the
afternoon, when the unhappy eye faw itself
furrounded with the moft deplorable deftruc-
tion. Houses crushed down; fruit-trees of
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all kinds blown up; the woods laid moly level. Our corn, not near hard för gathering, beaten flat to the earth; and to be fure, in evident danger of rotting: the tobacco in the fields blown into fhreas, that which was housed before the ftorm, quite crushed down, and pounded, and the mills entirely destroyed, as far as the ear has at present reached. Numbers of vellels in every harbour bolged upon the shores; and fome drove into the very ports, by the extreme height of the tide, except where the proprietors thought of boring holes through their bottoms and finking them; for neither anchors nor cables could ftand the dreadful hurricane. A particular defcription of every lofs would be tedious in fuch a ge neral devastation; level fields, in many places, diffolved into deep gullies. In fhort, had the form continued but a few hours more, the prefent view must satisfy every fenfible perfon, that this part of America muft have ceafed to exift.

Accounts of great damage have also been received from other parts."

EAST-INDIES.

Advice has been received that peace is concluded between the English and Hyder Ally, of which the following are the particulars: The forts and places taken from each other to be restored: each to bear the expence they have been at. A perpetual league, offenfive and defenfive, and the prices of troops hired in fuch cafes ftipulated. A mu tual exchange and releasement of prifoners. And a freedom of trade both in the Mycore country and the Carnatic.

Jington.

October 23. John Lee, Efq; of Lincoln'sInn, to Mifs Hutchinson-26. Charles Brietzeke, Efq; of the fecretary of ftate's office, to Mifs Catherine Ware-27. John Staple ton, Efq; to Mifs Elizabeth Withers-28. Thomas Phillpotts, jun. Efq; of Monmouth, to Mifs James-Lieutenant Colonel Ackland, to Mifs More-Philip Bennet, Efq; to Mils Wickham-Mr. Penrofe, furgeon, of Buck. ingham, to Mifs Bellis-Charles Stuart, Efq; to Mifs Betly Eden-30. Mr. James Young, founder, to Mifs Nancy Corrock-29. Mr. Caflon, to Mf Richardfon-George Hogge, Eq; to Mils Taylor--31. Mr. John Evill, jeweller, to Mife Jane Wilfon-John Vincent Gandolph, Efq; to Mits Hinde-Geo. Wentworth, Efq; to Mis Amelia CliftonThomas Mowgill, Eq; to Mi's Sally Johnfor-George Weltead, Efq; to Mifs Margaret Rogers.

Nov.

Nov. 1. At Kenfington, Mr. Windel, furgeon and apothecary to Mils Rivet-3. Mr. John Bland, banker in Lombard freet, to Mifs Blend, of C rnhill-Mr. John Bacon, of Clerkenwell, to Mifs Gaywood-Captata Edward Evans, to Mifs Mary Ridley-Rev. Humphry Primatt, to Mrs. Gallifer-Wiliam Vaughan, M. D. to Mrs. Purcha— 8. Dr. Petit, to Mifs Serces-Themas Mowgill, Efq; to Mifs Sally Johnfun-13 -Gea Manning, Efq; to Mifs Alicia Bolton-Mr. Woodmefton, broker, to Miís Baynard—Mr. William Tomlinion, to Ms Jenkins-At Ferin, in Flanders, Gilbreath Mahon, Ela; to the Hon. Mifs Tilfon-Thomas Chute Hayton, Efq; to Mifs Lucinda Bayly-The Rev. Mr. Evans, to Mifs Webb-Samuel Barrett, Efq; to Mifs Elizabeth Pragnell— 19. Mr. Richard Smith, turpentine merchant, to Mifs Efther Higgins-21. Mr. Cranmer Kenrick, of Hatton Garden, to Mifs Randal-Mr. Leflie, furgeon, of Beckingham ftreet, York buildings, to Mifs Katherine Taylor-John Weyland, Efq; to Mifs Elizabeth Whiteley-Rev. Mr. Dade, chaplain to the 20th regiment of foot, to Mils Sale-The Hon. and Rev. Mr. Henry Beauclerk, to Mifs Drummond-The Rev. Mr. Bones, of Lewis Weedon in Northampton fhire, to Mifs Goodwin-22. Cuthbert Higginfon. Efq; of Blackheath, to Miís Bavis-24. Mr. William Kendrick, hardwareman, to Mifi Willmore, of Birmingham.

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Efq;

DEATHS.

ATHANIEL TRIGGALE, Efq;-
Eliab Harvey, Eg;-Walter Beck,

O. 23. Richard Barber, Efq;-Samuel
Godden, Efq;-Jo eph Broomhall, Efq;-
25. Robert Fancourt, Efq;-Mr. George
Hartwell, builder-Dr. Butt, physician of
Bath Rev. Mr. James Frafer of Pitcalyon,
in Rofshire--Benjamin Beilby, Efq-At
Fort St. George, Sept. 30, 1768, Majer
Francis Wheler-In Ireland, the Earl of
Granard-Owen Ruffhead, Efq;-Lady
Cheere, wife of Sir Henry Cheere, Bart.-
John Byrhefea, Eq-At_Hampstead, Mrs.
Carey-Jofiah Tonkin, Efq;-Raby Vane,
Eq; brother to the Earl of Darlington—
26. The Rev. Mr. James Lea-John Bowen,
Eq:-Charles Palmer, Efqi-John Cockran,
Efq;-James Nellon, Efq;-Mr. Philip
Collet, attorney-The Rev. Samuel Eaton,
D. D.-At Bath, Dr. John Marten Butt-
Richard Bowles, Efq; Lieutenant Governor of
Pendennis Caftie-Major William Amour-
Rev. Mr. Timothy Laugher, a diffenting
minifter Mrs. Whitehead, a widow Jady-
M..Alexander Pinfold, flock-broker-31. Mr.
Soloman Da Cofta, an eminent notary public
-Dr. Stonehewer, rector of Houghton-le
Spring-William Turton, Efq;-Mrs. Martha
Dodd, of Drury-Lane theatre-Mifs Pon-

fonby,