Dec. 1961.

POETICAL ESSAYS.
CENA 1935) MIS ON YA people, zealous to obey,

ODE for the NEW YEAR 1763.
William Whitehead, Efq; Poet Laureat.

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Afields to the Fates their ebonicar,

And frowning quits his coil evid
Dafh'd from his hand the bleeding spears af
Now deigns a happier forra to wear, ti
And peaceful turns the foil.
Th'infatiate Furies of his train,
Revenge and Hate, and fell Disdain,

With heart of feel, and eyes of fire,
Who ftain the word which Honour draws,
Who fully Virtue's facred caufe,

To Stygian depths retire. Unholy fhapes, and fhadows drear, The pallid family of Fear,

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And Rapine, fill by thrieks purfu'd,"
And meagre Famine's squalid brood
Close the dire crew Y' Eternal Gates, difplay
Your adamantine folds, and hut them from the
day.

*II.

For lo, in yonder pregnant skies
On billowy clouds the Goddess lies

Whofe prefence breathes delight!
Whofe power th' obfequious feafons own,
And Winter lofes half his frown,

And half her shades the Night,
Soft-fmiling PEACE, whom Venus bore,
When, tutor'd by th'inchanting lore
(man Of Maia's blooming fon,
She footh'd the fynod of the Gods,
Drove Difcord from the bless'd abodes,

And Jove refum'd the throne.
Th'attendant graces gird her round,
And sportive Eafe, with locks unbound,
And every Mofe, to leisure born,
And Plenty, with her twifled horn,
While changeful Commerce Spreads her loofen'd
Blow as ye lift, ye winds, the reign of PEACE
prevails.

III.

[fails,

And fee, to grace that milder reign,
Sweet Innocence adorns the train,
And deigns a human frame to wear,
In form and features Albion's heir,
A future GEORGE Propitious Powers,
Ye delegates of Heaven's high King,
Who guide the years, the days, the hours,

That float on Time's progreffive wing,
Exert your influence, did us know

J From Parent Worth what virtues flow!
Be to lefs happy realms refign'd

The warrior's unrelenting rage,
We ask not kings of hero-kind,

The storms and earthquakes of their age,
To us be nobler bleffings given:
O teach us, delegates of Heaven,
What mightier bliss from union springs!
Future fubjects, future kings
Shall biefs the fair example shown
And from our character transcribe their own:

A monarch,

Delpife, whose parental way

regal art, His fhield, the laws which guard the land, His word, each Briton's eager hand,

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His throne, each Briton's heart."
The HORSE and the OLIVE; or,
WAR Rand PEACE.

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By the late Archdeacon PARNELL.

Not yet printed in bis Works!

Ith moral tale let ancient wifdom move,
Which thus I fing to make the moderns

wife.
Strong Neptune once with fage Minerva ftrove,
And rifing Athens was the victor's prize.
By Neptune, Plutus, (guardian pow'r of gain),
By great Minerva, bright Apollo ftood.
But Jove fuperior bade the fide obtain,

Which best contriv❜d to do the nation good.
Then Neptune striking, from the parted ground
The warlike HORSE came pawing on the plain,
And as it tofs'd its mane, and pranc'd around,

By this, he cries, I'll make the people reign.
The Goddess, fmiling, gently bow'd the fpear,
And, Rather thus they fhall be blefs'd, the faid:
Then, upwards fhooting in the vernal air,

With loaded boughs the fruitful OLIVE spread.
Jove faw what gift the rival pow'rs defign'd,
And took th'impartial scales, refolv'd to show,
If greater blifs in warlike pomp we find,

Or in the calm which peaceful times bestow.
On Neptune's part he plac'd victorious days,

Gay trophies won, and fame extending wide; But plenty, fafety, fcience, arts, and cafe,

Minerva's fcale with greater weight fupply'd. Fierce War devours whom gentle Peace would fave;

Sweet Peace reftores what angry War destroys; War made for Peace, with that rewards the brave, While Peace its pleasures from itself enjoys, Hence vanquish'd Neptune to the fea withdrew, Hence wife Minerva rul'd Athenian lands; Her Athens hence in arts and bonours grew,

And still her Olives deck, pacific hands. From fables thus disclos'd, a monarch's mind

May form just rules to chufe the truly great, And fubjects, weary'd with diftreffes, find

Whofe kind endeavours most befreind tie fate-
E'en BRITAIN here may learn to place her love,
If cities won her kingdom's wealth have coft.
If ANNA's thoughts the patriot fouls approve,
Whofe cares restore that wealth the wars had loft,
But if we afk, the moral to disclose,

Whom beft Europa's patronefs it calls,
Great ANNA's title no exception knows,
And unapply'd in this the fable falls.
With her no Neptune or Minerva vies:

Whene'er the pleas'd, her troops to conque
Whene'er the pleases peaceful times arife: [few:
She gave the Horfe, and gives the Olive too.

*** s 5 ant radion k DELIA to LUCTO. »??*

DEar object of a love, whofe fond excefs

No fudied forms of language can exprefs,
While, in my vere, my fofceft thoughts you fee,
And, my whole foul, I thus pour forth to thee,
Say, fhall thefe lines the name I hide impart,
And point their author to my Lucio's heart?
Will he, by correspondent friend hip own,
A verfe the mufe directs to him alone?

Turn, hopelets thought, from whence my for...
rows flow;

My thought rebels, and wakens ev'ry wo:
Pleasure is vain, and vain is ev'ry art,
To drive thy dear remembrance from my heart;
Which fix'd and conftant to its fav'rite flame,
In spite of time and distance is the fame ;
Still feels thy abfence equally fevere,
Nor taftes, without thee, a delight fincere.
For ftill is all my foul by thee ingrofs'd.
To friendship, pleasure, ev'n to int'rest lost.:
The aid of Reason I in vain implore,
And fair Philofophy has force no more;
Alike, with others, or from others free,
My foul fteals ever to converfe with thee!
Whate'er the different track my thoughts purfue,
Thy lov'd idea ever meets my view;
Of ev'ry joy, of ev'ry with a part,
It rules each varying motion of my heart.
Yes, my
fond verfe fha!! celebrate the day,
On which I gave my virgin heart away,
On which my love I plighted to my swain;
A finiling day on April's changeful train,
True emblem of the love he then profess'd;
A vernal day, in all its beauty drefs'd.
But foon the tranfient funshine is withdrawn,
And fudden fhow'rs defcend o'er all the lawn;
The feather'd choir their harmony give o'er,
And feel thy genial warmth, O Son, no more.
As that fair orb of bright celeftial flame,
From the clear brook reflected feems the fame;
So, won by tender love, devoid of art,
Reflected is thy image from my heart,
(Yielding as wax), thy form my heart retains,
The impreffion, as on adamant, remains.
Why wert thou, charming youth fo form'd to
Or why was all my foul fo form'd to love? [move,
Why didft thou feek my artlefs heart to gain,
Or, rather, why art now a fathiefs fwain?
Was is, that I too foon thy vows believ'd?
Thou waft fincere, or I was well deceiv'd.
I thought unchang'd thy paffion would remain,
And that thy gentle heart I could retain,
When lift'ning to thy foft prevailing tongue,
With pleasure, trembling on thy voice I hung,
Thy voice was (weeter than the foftest Arings;
Thine eyes had lightning, but thy heart had wings;
Marriage itself could need no grace divine,
To fix its stamp upon fuch love as thine.
What friend deterr'd us from the facred ties?
What phrenzy foach'd us from each others eyes,
No more we meet on fome appointed day,
No more in fighs our facred thoughts convey?

Can ought retrieve this fad reverse of fate?
Thou 'n
may repent, and yet repent too late
Why was there oncetransporting pleaftreknown,
Or why, alas! are now thole pleasures flown?
To foften cenfure, let me fpeak the caufe,
Which urg'd thee on to break love?» faured lawstuf
In thee 'twas duty, bound by nature's fawo pn-A
To proud Ambition with a filial awel, nj
But ceafe, my mufe, no more porfue the strain,
But trike fome fofter string to footh my pain,
And wonted peace thall fill my foul again.

What notes fo fweet to this frail heart that
mourns,

("Or the rapt feraph's that adores, and burns,"
As love divine, the bright enliving theme,
Of angels fongs, eternally the fame!
With them, with faints, and all the heav'nly choir,
A virgin mufe attempts to join the lyre."

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All gracious God, indulgently fevere, ><
Who mak'il our true happiness thy care;510
These cross events of life thy love defign'd, !
To prove the latent forces of the mind. s
To thee, my father, and my friend, 4. turn,
I feel my breaft with purer ardours burn,
O power fupreme! my beart's to thee inclined,
Increase my faith, and rectify my mind;
Drive this deftructive paffion from my breast, /.
Compofe my forrows, and reftore my reft,
Shew me the path the fainted virgins trod,
And bring a wand'rer back to thee her God.
May ev'ry bleffing be my Lucio's fhare,
And angels guard him with peculiar care,
Through flow'ry paths fecurely may he tread,
By Fortune follow'd, and by Virtue fed;
While health, and eafe, in ev'ry look exprefs,
The glow of beauty, and the balm of peace.
Late may he feel the gentle hand of death; w
As roles droop beneath the zephyr's breath;
Then peaceful rest a while conceal'd in earth,
Till the glad fpring of Nature's fecond birth,
Then quit the tranfient winter of the tomb,
To rife and flourish in immortal bloom.

O may I meet my Lucio in that place,
Where not his prefence can improve my bifs;
Tho' Heay'n itfelf will friendship ne'er deltroy,
(Angels from friendship gather half their joy
The fame bright flames in raptur'd feraphis glow,
As warm confenting tempers here below;
'Tis one attraction, angel, mortal, binds,
Virtue, which forms the unifon of minds;
Friendship the foft harmonious touch affords,
And gently frites the sympathetic choras
Th' agreeing notes in focial measures roll,
And the fweet concert flows from foul to foul Y
My lovely friend, to whom indulgent ́Heav'n'
The noblete means of happinefs has giv❜n,m
See Faith, with fteady steps direct the road,
That leads unerring to the fav'reign good;
See Virtue's hand immortalijoys beflow,
That, ever new, in fair fucceffion Bowt
From joys unfix'd, that in poffeflion, die, nas
From Falfhood's paths, my dearest Lucio fly.
Farewell, my love! my friended afk this grace,
"Grant me "within thy heart a fifte's

Affairs in the North.

formed a chain for their greater Vecurity at all events but a large body of the had previously been put in motion, to if

Dec. 6. If the 16,000 men under Gen. Kleist fhould be foon reinforced (which we find they may easily be) by the 10,000 if the Prince

vade the dominions of thole princes who under Gen. Neuwied, and Bohemia,

had furnithed troops to the army of the Empire, or otherwife fhewed their at tachment to the Empress Queen's caufe. As most of the Imperial and Auftrian troops were at a great distance, a gene rab alarm was immediately spread. They who had the keeping of fome Pruflian, Hanoverian, Hellian, and Brunswick ho• Stages, at Nuremberg, fent them off for Ratisbon, where the diet of the Empire fits, was a place in which it was fuppofed they would be fecure; but the magiftrates of this latter city fent a courier to meet thofe who conducted them, and let them know, that they could not be received. The hoftages were therefore fent to Augfburg. Baron Plotho, the Brandenburg minifter at the diet, informed the other minifters, "That as all his master's declarations to the estates of the Empire had produced no effect, he was now refolved to employ more effectual means to make them recall their troops from the Auftrian army; and was accordingly marching three different corps, one of which had already entered Franconia, the fecond was taking the route of Swabia, and the third would pass through Bavaria; that they would every where conduct themfelves according to the exigencies of war; but that as to the diet of the Empire, he had orders to give affurance that it should not be in the least disturbed."

On the 25th of November, the deputies of Ratisbon, as well as thofe of the grand chapter, &c. repaired to Baron Plotho, to know what was to be expected with respect to that city. He told them, "That fo foon as the Pruffians appeared at the gates, and demanded hoftages for treating of contributions, they had beft comply, without waiting for extremities." The Pruffian troops actually spread them felves over all Franconia, raifing heavy contributions on the petty princes, bihopricks, abbacies, cities, and towns; Nuremberg, for inftance, was taxed at 2,500,000 crowns. Part of this was im mediately paid down; and hoftages were given for the remainder. The Pruffians alfo carried off from thence twelve fine brafs cannon, and fix waggons loaded with military ftores, betides 2000 piftols. Some of their parties alfo entered Swabia, and spread an alarm as far as Ulm and elber The three following-ar psisare from Ratisbon

of Stolberg, who is ftill
makes not great hafte; the Pruflians may
give law to all this part of Germany. We
know that the Prince of Stolberg's corps,
including his vanguard, which is under the
Count d'Efferen, amounts to near 20,000
men, having lately received very large
reinforcements; that the corps of Priace
Xavier of Saxony confits of 24,000 men;
and that of the Duke of Wurtemburg is
betwixt 6 and 8000. There are there
fore, in all, above 50,000 Imperialilts, Ba
xons, and Wurtemburghers, to oppofe
25,000 Pruffians; but they must first join
and it remains to be feen whether that
may be easily done."

Dec. 13. The Emperor's commissary has just received a letter from the Prince of Stoiberg, importing, that he was ma king forced marches, not only with the army of the Empire, but with a large bo dy of Auftrian troops, who increafed dai ly, to attack the enemy which are in Franconia, and oblige them to retire."

"Dec. 23. Bavaria has made its peace with Pruflia. The convention of neu trality for that circle was figned the 17th The circle of Swabia, affembled at Ulm, has taken a like resolution. It is thought that other circles will immediately follow their example."

In confequence of preliminary articles of peace between G. Britain, France, &c. being figned, the Allied and French ar mies in Hele fell gradually back from one another. On the 17th of November twenty battalions and thirty fquadrons that had been of the Prince of Conde's divifion, then immediately under the Mar quis de Montegnard, feparated from the main army, and marched for the Lower Rhine. From thence a good many troops actually returned to France. Ziegen. hayn, Marburg, and Gieffen, began to be evacuated by the French on the 17th The Britifh troops, we are informed, are to march through Weftphalia, and the Dutch territories, to Williamftadt, where they will fucceflively imbark.

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The hereditary Prince of Brunswick arrived at Pr. Ferdinand's head-quarters the cth of November, perfectly ed of his wounds. A letter from War burg, of Nov. 27. faid, that the Mar quis of Granby was taken ill at that place, but not dangercully. We wer