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een mifreprefented as a moft blafphequs difcourfe, which made him think it eceflary to expofe it," as he expreffes imself with much propriety.

We heartily acquit this preacher of inending to blafpheme; but when a man ho knows not what fpirit he is of, and ho appears never to have confidered the bject he is preaching at, prefumes aloft to perfonate his creator, and puts s own raging deliriums and damnations, it were, into the mouth of the Deity, e think it approaches too near blafphey, in effect. Thus he pronounces, without e leaft fcruple, doubt, or hesitation, p. 3. "Thefe ftrenuous contenders for inulation fhall one day know, that the actice thereof is a real and fhameful deifing the divine wisdom of almighty God, hich will not be numbered among the aft of their fins. Nor fhall they that e this method for their own benefit (as ey think) be ever able to make their ndition better thereby. But, on the ntrary, upon the whole, it will be a great al the worse. Nevertheless, it will be e day found a daring and presumptuous , adding, with a horrid adjuration, ined], or there is no God in heaven. And is to be feared, it will be found a fin Wat will tend to harden [by its SUCCESS must mean] the heart against God. ad it will be well, if they do not comence from thence greater Athiests than ey were before," p. 20. 21.

This fpecimen most of our readers must ink very fufficient. He refers the apovers of inoculation (for their eternal nviction, no doubt) to Isaiah v. 20, 21. hich is just as strong and pertinent as all s other perverfions of fcripture on this cafion. But briefly, we would recomend it to our author, to read a little of hat fome divines, of his own communion, we faid, with the greatest reverence id gratitude to God, and love of man, vindication of this practice, before he eaches and publishes the fequel of this xtraordinary fermon. We fincerely with m, in the mean time, fuch a degree of lumination, as may transforin fome of is gracelets zeal into Chriftian charity; nd recommend the Inoculation of good enfe to his attentive perufal. M.

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reign,

(Britannia cries, as, pointing to the throne,
She faw new laurels grace her much-lov'd son),
Let dark Division cease her impious roar,
Born in the north, or fouth, where-e'er he dwell
And blue-lipp'd Envy groan despair no more;
That man is mine, in virtue who excels:
And one fole wish inflames your sovereign's breaî;
Nor doth he vainly with: Rejoic'd I fee
O gracious Heav'n, be my Britannia bleft!
Fair Peace approach, led on by Victory
Bright in her train. with Juftice Fame appears,
And tells of honours form'd for latest years.
O greet the welcome band: as great in war,
Then the firm herp, who bath fought so well,
Be yours ftill nobler, to protect and spare.
At cafe his dangers shail to Delia tell;
While the fond nymph, with rich reward of
charms,

Shall clafp the hero clofer in her arms.
Rais'd to new strength, beneath the smiles of
Peace,

Each art more elegant my realms shall grace;
And Spread their glories to the farthest shore
That late hath trembled at my thunder's roar.
Commerce shall stretch her thousand wings more

wide,

And bring in treafures on each flowing tide;
And fure as Gratitude afferts her claim.
Shall pure Religion trim her hallow'd flame;
Sweet Poefy in nobler notes fhall fing
The Favour'd Country, and the Patriot King
EUGENIO,

GE

To the GENIUS of BRITAIN.
Enius of Britain, spread thy guardian wing
O'er thy lov'd isle, and round thy favourit
king.

O! pour in Britain's wounds the healing balm,
Smooth her rough paffions, and her difcords calm,
Give her (nor, oh! the pious with disclaim !)
Or war with triumph, or a peace with fame.
Her facred rights fill teach her to defend,
And fcom that foe fhe cannot make a friend.
Where e'er her cannons roar, or enfigns fly,
Plant dread, and flight, and each pale terror nigh
Let Gallia tremble, and let Bourbon fear,
When glorious GEORGE's conquering troops

appear.

Touch every heart with thirst of honest praise, And love of honour more than length of days. With courage let her awe, with virtue charm, Each realm that courts her faile, er fights he

M

E PIT A PH.

"Idft those gay scenes which Thames's banks fupply,

Be this fad fpot not pass'd unheeded by! If candour, fenfe, and probity can move, Or years confum'd in acts of focial love; Here, ftranger, let thy grateful tear be paid, For here two friends of human kind are laid. Sought by the worthy, by the wife carefs'd, They fed the poor, they fuccour'd the diftrefs'd, And from the nuptials to the hour of fate, No captious frown difturb'd their wedded state: Applauding Heav'n beheld the pious pair. And call'd the husband from this world of care. Two fummers faw the widow'd faint deplore, Nor could fhe, funk, fuftain the torture more: From this vain world the pray'd to be remov❜d; Heaven heard her fervent withes, and approv❜d. Yet, in th' expiring moment, as fhe fpy'd Her forrowing daughter, fainting by her fide, The tender mother check'd the mourning wife, And, 'mift th'unfinish'd prayer for tuture life, She paus'd, fufpended-then, ferene and still, Refign'd each paffion to th' eternal will.

If, 'midft th'angelic choirs, the bless'd bestow A tranfient thought on groveling man below, Lamented parents look indulgent down, And view that daughter place this hallow'd stone; See her hand trembling, trace each rev'rent name, And add this laft due tribute to your fame : O pleas'd with truth, accept it; for ye know, Her praise unflatt'ring, as unfeign'd her wo.

Was in the charming month of May, (No matter, critic, for the day), When PHOEBUS had his noon attain'd, And in his blaze of glory reign'd, A FLY, as gay as e'er was feen, Clad o'er in azure, jet, and green, Gay, for his part, as birthday beau, Whofe foul is van fh'd into show,

On PAUL'S fam'd temple chanc'd to light, To cafe his long laborious flight.

There, as his optics gaz' around,

An inch or two their utmost bound,
He thus began: "Men vainly tell
How they in works of skill excel:
This edifice they proudly show
To prove what human art can do.
'Tis all a cheat-before my eyes
What infinite diforders rife!
Here hideous cavities appear,
And broken precipices there:
They never us❜d the plane or line,
But jumbled heaps without defign."
He ceas'd contemptuous;
and, as FLIES
Difcern with mifcroscopic eyes,
From what he saw he reafon'd right:
But how inadequate his fight

To mark the building from its bafe, The pillar-pomp, the fculptur'd grace,

The dome, the cross, the golden ball,
Much lefs the grand refult of all!

So impious WITS, with proud difdain,
REDEMPTION's hidden ways arraign,
Deem it beneath a BEING wife;
And, judging with their infect-eyes,
View but a part, and then deny
Th' ETERNAL WISDOM of the sky.
But can thy ken, prefumptuous MAN,
Unfold this deep and wond'rous plan?
As well might infect-organs fee
Th' harmonious ftructures rais'd by thee,
As thine imperfect tube explore
This wife and gracious fyftem o'er:
"For in the grace that refcu'd MAN,

GOD's brightest form of glory fhines;
Here on the crofs tis faireft drawn,

In precious blood, and crimson lines.
Here his whole name appears com.plete,
Nor wit can guess, nor reafon prove,
Which of the letters. beft is writ,

The POWER, the WISDOM, or the
LOVE"

To MYRA. On being refused a trifling request.

Ure fuch a form was ne'er defign'd:

To grace a heart fo cold:

For who would fet, if found in mind,
A common stone in gold?

Strange! that thofe funs, which always glow,
Should ne'er exert their rays,
To melt away thofe hills of now,
Which pant fo near their blaze.
Pygmalion's fate, revers'd, is mine;
His fond endearments mov'd
An ivory virgin, work divine!

Who fotten'd, liv'd, and lov'd.
You, more obdurate, as more fair,
My fuit, young nymph, deny;
And while I, fuppliant, breathe a pray❜r,
You, fcornful, petrify.

EPIGRA

M.

Surpris'd at the change in an humour so gay,
She afk'd her the caufe; and heard-Pug was away
Straight Cupid was fummon'd:-"Is this then
your care?

Is it thus," cried the Goddess, "you wait on the fair?
Go find out the monkey;-no grumbling! but go."
The god ran away, and return'd with a bean.
"Was there e'er fuck a blund'rer? why, firrah, I
fwear,

(And with that the beflow'd afmart box on his ear), You'd provoke e'en a faint." The poor urchin icjoin'd,

"Don't you know, dear mamma, that

your Cu

pid is blind? Befides, this odd thing had an Argus betray'd: It fofrolick 'd,and flutter'd, and caper'd, and play'd, So like it at once both in tricks and in fhape, What else could I do but suppose 'twas an ape?"

KL.

Your Majefty and the Republic have often zealoufly interefled yourselves to procure the liberty of Duke Earnest John and his family, that he might be retored, on the ancient footing, to his feudal duchies. Your intercellions and

reprefentations on this fubject are an evidence to us, that he has been guilty of no treasonable act against your Majesty or the Republic. Reafons of ftate forbade the complying with your Majefty's interceffions formerly; but the motives, on account of which the Duke or his heirs could not then be allowed to live in the Ruflian empire, exift no longer; wherefore, from that love of juftice which is the bafis of all my actions, I have refolved, fince he has been fet at liberty, to re-establish him in the enjoyment of all his allodial poffetlions, which had been fequestered. I have therefore a firm hope that your Majefty will be equally willing to caufe to be restored to the Duke Earnest John his fiefs and duchies, with all the rights which have been given him, and to put him once more in poffeffion of all the eftates which the Emprefs Anne graciously be

ftowed on him, and of those which he purchased himself. In confequence hereof, I pray your Majefty to take the neceflary steps as foon as pollible in this affair. With pleasure I aflure your Majesty of the fincere efteem with which I am,

Your Majesty's faithful Sitter and Friend, Signed, CATHERINE. And lower, The Count of WORONZOW. St Peterburg, Aug. 3. 1762.

- Extract from the King of Poland's answer to the foregoing.

Moft High and Puiffant Emprefs, &c. Your Majesty's letter, bearing date 3d

of Auguft, has been delivered to me by the Chancellor of my crown. What was my furprife and concern, when I faw in it, that, after the moft folemn and irrevocable declarations of your Majefty's glorious predeceflors, and in spite of the legal difpofitions and facred measures which had to juftly given occafion to them, your Majefty called in doubt my rights, and thofe of my family, to the fovereignty of the duckies of Courland and Semi

Salt!

545.

It is impoffible to believe, that they have laid before your Majefty, in their true light, the declarations of the Emprefs Elifabeth, and the lawful causes and circumftances which authorised me to difpofe of the fief of Courland, a fief depend ent upon me and my crown, in the manner I have done. I appeal on this head to the incontrovertible motives which are mentioned at large in the diploma of inDuke of Courland, and to the expofition veftiture granted to my fon, the reigning which my minifters have already put into the hands of your Majefty's refident.

Your Majesty's intention is no more to prescribe bounds to the exercise of those rights which are derived to me from God, independent of every other power, and which appertain only to me and my crown, than to permit their being allign= ed over to their proper authority: it would be to offend against one's own equity, knowledge, and magnanimity, even to fufpect that your Majefty has any inclina tion to be the caule, that one of the most ancient allies of your empire thould re

ceive a blow the most fenfible that could poffibly happen to a paternal heart. I expect, therefore, from your Imperial fhall think pro Majefty's juftice, that you per to refer the late Duke de Biron to me and the republic, as to the only fovereigns and judges of the rights he pretends to have. I pray your Majefty likewife, in the interim, to fuppreis entirely fures which have been taken, and to act all thofe unlooked-for and unhappy meafo as the most friendly means only of accommodation may be used, which alone ought to have place between states that Majefty cannot oblige me more fenfibly, are both friends and neighbours. Your than by taking, on this occafion, the sentiments and refolutions which I expect from your juftice. I am, for my own. part, in the firmest intention of remaining, with the most perfect esteem and devotion, Your Imperial Majesty's Most Faithful Brother, Friend, and Neighbour, Given at Warsaw, Sept. 3. 1762.

AUGUSTUS.