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The third clafs are refidents and envoys, who have by heart the law of nations, the peace of Weftphalia, and the Golden Bull. They must have a prodigious quantity of nugatory knowledge. As these men know a great deal in point of quantity, they confider others who know more in refpect of the quality of knowledge, as ig

norant. This gives them an air of importance, a manner of expreffing themselves,' and a kind of heavy and dull activity, which renders them infupportable in company, but very useful to the plough to which they are harneffed. I advife you to converse with the first; to eat with the fecond; and to fly the third."

POETICAL

From a WINCHESTER SCHOOL-BOY, to bis Friend at BATH.

Y

OU fee, dear fir, I've found a time T'express my thoughts to you in rhyme; For why, my friends, fhould diftant parts Or times disjoin united hearts.

Since, though by intervening space
Depriv'd of fpeaking face to face,
By faithful emiffary letter
We may converfe as well or better.
And not to ftretch a narrow fanfy
To fhew what pretty things I can say.
As fome will ftrain at fimile,
Firft work it fine and then apply,
Jag Butler's rhymes to Prior's thoughts
And choofe to mimick all their faults,
By head and fhoulders bring in a ftich
To fhew their knack at Hudibraftick.
I'll tell you as a friend and crony
How here I spend my time and money.
For time and money go together
As fure as weathercock and weather.
Soon fhall nor Virgil's lofty heights,
Nor towering Milton's loftier flights,
Nor courtly Flaccus's rebukes
Who banters Vice with friendly jokes
Nor Congreve's life, nor Cowley's fire,
Nor all the beauties that confpire
To place the greenest bays upon
Th' immortal brows of Addifon;
Prior's inimitable eafe

Nor Pope's harmonious numbers please,
I fear that philofophick chapters
Will ftifle my poetick raptures.
Soon Algebra, Geometry,
Arithmetick, aftronomy,
Opticks, chronology, and staticks

All tirefome parts of mathematicks,

With twenty harder names than thefe

Shall teize my brain, and break my peace,
All seeming inconfiftencies,
Are nicely folv'd by A's and B's,
Shall turn my thoughts around and round,
For two fixty-fourths of the firth of a pound.
Our eye fight is difprov'd by prifms
Our arguments by fyllogifms,
If I fhould confidently write
This ink is black, this paper white,
Or, to exprefs myfelf yet fuller
Should fay that black or white's a colour,
They'd contradi&t it and perplex one
With motion, ray, or their reflexion.

ESSAYS.

And folve the apparent falsehood, by
The curious texture of the eye.
Should I the poker want and take it,
When 't looks as hot as fire can make it,
And burn my finger and my coat,
They'd flatly tell me 'tis not hot.
The fire, they'll fay, has in't, 'tis true,
The power of caufing heat in you,
But no more's heat in fire that heats you,
Than there is pain in ftick that beats you.
Thus too philofophers expound
The names of odour, tafte, and found,
The falts and juices in all meat
Affect the tongues of them that eat,
And by fome fecret poignant power
Give them the tafte of sweet or four.
Carnations, violes, and rofes
Cause a fenfation in our noses,
But there is none of us can tell
The things themselves have tafte or fmell,
We're told how planets roll on high,
How large their orbits, and how high,
I hope in little time to know
Whether the moon's a cheese or no.
Whether the man in it, as fome tell ye,
With beef and carrots fills his belly.
Why like a lunatick confin'd,
He lives at diftance from mankind,
When he at one good hearty shake
Might whirl his prifon off his back,
Or like a maggot in a nut

Might bravely eat his paffage out.
Who knows what vaft difcoveries
From fuch enquiries might arife,
But feuds and tumults in the nation
Disturb all curious speculation.
No more this due to friendship take,
Not idly writ for writing's fake.
No longer queftion my respect,
Nor call this fhort delay neglect,
At least excufe it, when you fee
This pledge of my fincerity.
For one who rhymes to make you eafy,
And his invention ftrains to please,
To fhow his friendship cracks his brains,
Is fure a madman if he feigns.

I now with all fubmiffive meeknefs
Beg my respects to Mrs. ****s,
So clole my 'piftle, I hope not too foon,
And fign myself your's,

The MAN in the Moon.

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THE DECISION.

A TALE.

LARISSA, sprightly once and gay,
Now figh'd the tedious hours away:
She mourn'd the kindest husband gone,
The husband much-but more the man.
Dark weeds conceal'd the fair from view-
Yet mightily became her too!
She veil'd her pretty blubber'd face,
And wept her dear-with fuch a grace!

But lo, young Florimond appears,
To dry the joyless widow's tears:
His fuit the hears with warm disdain,
Protefted all his hopes were vain :

Her hands fhe wrung, her robe she rent,
And wept," and wonder'd what he meant!"
Yet thro' the drop that drown'd her eye,
'Tis faid there fhone a fpark of joy ;
And fage diviners cou'd foretell,
That Florimond might yet do well.

A fcruple now disturb'd her head,
"Whether it were a fin to wed?"
Queries and doubts her brain poffefs'd,
And bufy confcience broke her reft.
So, to refolve this knotty cafe,
She feeks the curate of the place;
A cafuift?-deep. Of judgement?-found,
Yes, fam'd for parts-the parish round.

Clariffa with the rifing fun
Approach'd her friend, and thus begun :
Full fixty times hath yonder light
Arofe-as oft hath funk in night,
Since the lamented hour that gave
My faithful confort to the grave:
And fure no fecond love fhall e'er
Efface that image ftill fo dear:
Clariffa to his mem'ry juft,
For ever fhall revere his duft.
Yet cruel prudence may require
What elle were foreign to defire;

And 'midft a weight of cares, you know,
What can a helpless woman do?
My heedlefs fervants flight my call,
My farmers break, my houfes fall;
And Florimond, with winning air,
Tells me they want a husband's care,
What does my learned doctor fay?
Why, marry fure-without delay"-
But fhou'd the lover prove unkind,
A tyrant o'er her tender mind,
How hard my lot, condemn'd to mingle
Tears with my cup!" why then live fin-
gle."-

Yet what if an obdurate fair
Shou'd drive a lover to defpair?
You know the foolish freaks of men;

I dread the thought!" nay, take him then."

But fhou'd he squander my eftate,

And pawn my jewels, rings, and plate!
And witless I, by folly led,

Be turn'd adrift to beg my bread!

The doctor, vers'd in womankind,

Perceiv'd the workings of her mind.
"Madam, he cries, when truth we feek,
All argument is often weak:
When reafons weigh on either part,
Opinion vainly tries her art;
So, till defcending truth prevails,
She fits fufpended o'er the fcales.
A way more speedy fhall be try'd;
A tongue fhall fpeak that never ly'd:
Know madam then, my parish bell
Is famous for advifing well;
Whate'er the point in queftion be,
It hits the matter to a T:
Thus, as it dictates by its tone,
You fure muft wed, or lie alone."

Now toward the church in hafte they go
The widow chearful?-But fo fo-
Yet vows, whate'er the answer giv'ng
She pioufly will yield to heav'n;"
The doctor too exhorts the fair,
To liften and decide with care."
And now the myft'ry to unfold,
He turn'd the key, the bell he toll'd.
Our widow mus'd, and knit her brow-
"Well, madam, pray what think you now?"
(Here, fift the fobb'd and wip'd her eye,
Then labour'd out a doleful figh.)
"Think, doctor?-Why, the cafe is plain:
Alas, I find refiftance vain!

In Heav'n, 'tis faid, cur doom is feal'd:
Ah, Florimond!—and muft I yield?
Yet not by choice-by fate I'm won;
The will of Heav'n be ever done!
The bell ordains thee to my bed,
For hark, it fairly bids me "wed."
Dear doctor then (I speak with forrow)
Be fure you be at home to-morrow."

Think you the fimple tale too long ?
Then hear the moral of my fong:
The moral to no fex confin'd,
Regards alike all human kind.

Sly paffion and distempered fenfe
Ufurp the form of evidence;
And truth and falfehood, good and ill,
Receive their tincture from the will,
Man boafts his reafon's pow'r in vain;
The pageant drags a hidden chain:
A vary'd fhape each object wears,
Just as he wishes, hopes, or fears:
His deepeft thought, his vaunted rule,
Is Paffion's flave, or Folly's fool.
'Tis hence we blindly can approve
The very faults of thofe we love :
'Tis hence we blindly can debate
The nobleft deeds of those we hate.
Abroad thus works perverted will;
At home our views are darker till;
And actions deem'd abfurd in thee,
Are prudent, wife, and juft in me:
Self-love adores her own caprice,
Still deifies each darling vice;
And by the colour of a name,

Removes at once the guilt and fame:

The

The prodigal is "gen'rous, free:"
The mifer" boafts economy:"
"Gay," the debauch'd; the proud, is
"great;"

The bold oppreffor "hates a cheat;"

The fawning flave "obliges all;"
And mad revenge" is honour's call,"
Thus paffion fhoots thro' ev'ry part ;
The brain is tainted with the heart:
Weak judgement falls before temptation ;
And reafon-is but inclization.-

THE MONTHLY CHRONOLOGER.

LONDO N.

Particulars of the Trial of LORD GEORGE
GORDON, in the Court of King's Bench, in
Weftminfer Hall, the 5th of February, on a
Charge of High Treafon.

N the morning of the 5th of February, the judges took their feats in the court of King's Bench about 8 o'clock, Great precautions were used to keep the court from being unreasonably crowded: all the avenues to it were locked, and written directions were iffued by Lord Mansfield, to the mafter of the crown-office, for the regulation of the proceedings. By this order, which was in the hand-writing of the Chief Juftice, the officers of the court were exprefsly commanded not to open the gates of Westminster-Hall, nor any other of the doors that lead to the Court, till eight o'clock, at which time the court was appointed to fit. At the fame time abfolute orders were given, that no money fhould be taken by the door keepers, under pain of immediate di miffion from their places; and that no perfon, under any pretence should be admitted, till the judges had taken their feats, and the court was opened. This order was ftrictly complied with.

Lord

The judges on the tryal were, Mansfield, Mr. Juftice Willes, Mr. Juftice Afhhurft, and Mr Justice Buller. The counfel for the profecution were, the Attorney General, the Sollicitor General, Mr. Dunning, Mr. Lee, Mr. Bearcroft, Mr. Howarth, and Mr. Norton. The counsel for the prifoner were, Mr. Kenyon, and Mr. Erfkine. Several alterations had been made in the court, for the better accomodation of the neceflary officers and people concerned in the tryal. A box was made on the right hand of the judge's bench, for the sheriffs of Middlefex, and a place on the right hand of the jury's box, for witneffes.

Lord George was brought to the bar, by the lieutenant of the tower, about nine in the morning. He was dreffed in black. velvet. His Lordship was perfectly composed and collected in his appearance. He took his place on the right hand of Mr. Erikine, in the middle of the fecond bench, commonly alloted to the counsel. Mr. Kenyon applyed to the court, and requested to know if their Lordfhips would indulge the prifoner with leave to fit down? To which Lord Mansfield an

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Adam Gordon.

The court now defired that the jury should be called over at the window, to mark the obferved, that this was not to be confidered as names of fuch as appeared; Lord Mansfield the regular call, for this point had been litig ted in the cafe of Lares. After this was done, it was found that fix out of seven of the jury were prefent. They were called over and the following were fworn: Henry Haftings, of Queen Anne-Street. Thomas Collins, of Berners-Street. Edward Hulfe, of Har ey-Street. Edward Pomfret, of New North-Street. Gedaliah Gatfield, of Hackney. Jofeph Pickles of Homerton. Marmaduke Peacock, of Hackney. Edward Gordon, of Bromley. Francis Degon, of Hammersmith. Robert Armitage, of Kenfington, and Simon Le Sage. John Rix, of Whitechapel, Efquires.

Mr. Norton, the youngest counsel for the crown, opened the indictment in the usual way, reciting the allegation.

His

The Attorney General then took up the caufe, entered into the nature and different kinds of treafon, mentioned the repeat of the penalties inflicted by the acts formerly paffed against the Roman Catholics, with the mifchiefs that enfued last year on the petition prefented against the act containing a repeal, of which mifchiefs he confidered Lord George Gordon as the author. lordship, he said, was the prefident of the affociation. He called by public advertisement 20,000 men together, and declared he would ber; for he was in parliament, and knew, not prefent the petition without that numperhaps, that without violence his ends could not be procured. He ordered them to know the extent of his force; he arranged come with blue cockades, that he might them into divifions; he met them on the ground, and to inspire them with confidence, he told them "to recollect what the Scotch had done, and what they had gained by their enterprife and firmness; and that he invited them to no danger which he was not willing to fhare, and he would fupport them in their attempts, at the hazard of his life; he would attend them, though he fhould be hanged on the gallows." He confidered the whole of

the

the fubfequent outrages as flowing from this caufe; for a man who turns loofe a wild beaft, he confidered to be answerable for all the murthers that the creature fhould commit. He then read the advertisement begin ning with the words, "Whereas no hall in London will hold 40,000 men." And he read it with comments, ftating that the invitation of the civil magiftrates was matter of mere mockery. The noble prifoner appeared, or came along with the body to the Houle of Commons. He had them under his management. They called upon him to know whether they should quit the lobby, as a divifion was about to take place in the Houfe, and it could not be done unless they left the lobby. He gave them to underftand, "That the divifion would be against them, if they left the place, but they would know what to do. He reminded them of the conduct of the Scotch; told them that when they pulled down the mafs-houfes, Lord Weymouth fent them a meffage, affuring them that the act should be repealed; and why should the Scotch be better than you? He added, that when his majesty heard that the protestants were coming from every place within ten miles of London, he would fend his minifters to affure them that the a&t fhould be repealed." All this proved that he had the control, the management of the whole mob.

The learned gentleman then faid he meant to adduce evidence of thefe facts, and truffed that the jury would find the prifoner guilty of the crimes laid to his charge.

The firft evidence called was William Hay. He wore that he faw Lord George Gordon five or fix times as prefident of the Proteftant Affociation, at Coachmakershall, Greenwood's rooms, the Crown and Rolls, and St. Margaret's-hill. The laft time which he faw him, on the 29th of May, at Coachmakers-hall, he heard him announce to a very numerous affembly, that the Affociated Proteftants, amounted to forty thoufand in number; that the 2d of June was the day fixed upon for presenting the petition; that they were to meet in St. George's-fields, in four feparate divifions or columns, arrayed or dreffed in their beft clothes, with blue cockades in their hats, as he himself fhould wear one, to diftinguish them from other people who were papifts or friends to papifts. He gave orders how these four feveral bodies fhould take their ground, and what fields they fhould affemble in. Some days before that the noble lord had, at the Crown and Rolls, after reading over fome preambles and claufes of as, faid that his majefty, by affenting to the Quebec and the late act, his counsellors had brought him to that pafs or fituation, in which James the Second was after his abdication. He read his ma

jefty's coronation oath. It was his opinion
that his majefty had made a breach of, or
had broken that oath. He obferved, that
the people of his country did not mince
the matter, they fpoke out, or spoke their
minds freely, and he avowed it to be true.
The witnefs faid, that he went to St.
George's-fields on the 2d of June; he faw
a very great multitude; he never faw fo
many before with cockades, and banners
lettered, Proteftant Affociation," ". No
Popery, &c." He faw the noble lord at a
distance haranguing the body. He faw the
multitude come through Fleet-ftreet. He
went into the lobby, and the principal
noife and uproar that he heard was in chim-
ing Lord George Gordon's name. There
was fuch confufion and noife, that he could
hardly hear any thing. Lord George came
out, and told them, to adhere fleadfastly
to fo glorious a caufe." He promised to
perfevere in it himself, and he hoped, al
though there was very little expectation
from the House of Commons, that they
would meet with redrefs from their mild or
gracious fovereign.

On his cross-examination, he said he
was a printer, a bankrupt, and printed on
his own account. He was not fure, but he
thought the prifoner was one night at
Greenwood's-rooms. He confulted his
notes, and found his lordship was not pre-
fent at Greenwood's. The reason why
he took notes was, that he had a forefight
of the confequences that would happen, and
he went from place to place, and took notes
under that perfuafion. He did not forefce
the confequences till the 20th of February,
but he took notes from the firft hour of
his attending there, on the 10th of Decem-
ber. He never attended a publick meeting
without a motive, and he always made
minutes of every thing material.
imparted his fears to a particular friend by
letter; it was Mr. Butler of Lincoln's-inn
he did not know what religion he was of,
but he believed he was a Roman catholick.

He

William Metcalfe fwore, that he was at Coachmaker's-hall on the day when the time of the meeting at St. George's fields was fettled. He heard Lord George Gordon defire them to meet him in St. George'sfields. He reminded them, that the Scotch had fucceeded by their unanimity; and he hoped that they also would be unanimous.

He trufted that no one who had figned the petition would be ashamed or afraid to fhow himself in the caufe. That he would not prefent the petition, or that he would beg leave to decline it, unless he was met by 20,000 men. He recommended to them to come with fome mark of distinction, fuch as a ribband in their hats, to distinguifh from their friends their foes. He would meet them, and would be answer

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able for fach as fhould be molefted. That he wifhed fo well to the cause, that he would go to the gallows for or in it (he knew not the particular expreffion) and that he would not prefent the petition of a lukewarm people. The witness was in St. George's-fields; he faw Lord George Gordon come there in a chaife; he believed he spoke within compafs, when be faid there were 30 000 people in the fields. He understood that Lord George spoke to them, but he did not hear him.

On his cross-examination, he faid, that he was not fure about the exact expreffions of the prifoner relating to his going to the gallows.

John Anftruther, Efq. was at Coachmaker's-hall on the 29th of May, at which time the prisoner acted as prefident, and told them, that on Friday next he meant to present the petition, but if there was one man lefs than 20,000 he would not meet them, for without that number he thought it would not have confequence. He recommended to them the example of the Scotch, who by their firmness had carried their point. He recommended temperance and firmness, and concluded with telling them, that he did not mean them to go into any danger that he would not fhare, for he was ready to go to death or to the gallows for the Proteftant caufe. He faw Lord George Gordon leaning over a gallery in the Houfe of Commons. He told them, that they had been called a mob in the Houfe; that the peace officers had been called in to difperfe them, peaceable petitioners. That no reasons had been given why they wished them to be difperfed, but he believed the peace officers had figned the petition, that fome people had mentioned in the House fomething relating to calling in the military; that he hoped nobody would think of taking a step of that kind, as it would infallibly tend to make great divifion among his majesty's fubjects for it was very improper to introduce the military into a free country. He again mentioned the unanimity of the Scotch, and faid, that when his majefty heard that his fubjects were flocking up for miles round, he would fend his minifter to repeal the act. Several called to Lord George Gordon to know whether he defired them to go away. He replyed, "You are the beft judges of what you ought to do, but I'll tell you how the matter stands; the House are going to divide upon the question, whether your petition fhal be taken into confideration now or upon Tuesday, there are for taking it into conficeration now, myself and fix or seven others. If it is not taken now, your petition may be loftTo morrow the Houfe does not fit-Monday is the king's birth-day, and on Tuesday

parliament may be adjourned, prorogued, or diffolved."

The Rev. Mr. Bowen teftified to the like purport; adding, that as his lordship was at the door, the witnefs faw a gentleman go up to him, who feemed to be perfuading his lordship to return to his feat: as foon as Lord George turned round and faw who it was, he called out to the people,

This is Sir Michael le Fleming; he has just been speaking for you." He feemed to be remarkably pleafed with Sir Michael; he patted, or froked his shoulder; his joy feemed to be extravagant-it was childish in his opinion.

Jofeph Pearfon, door-keeper, and Thomas Baker depofed to fimilar circumftances.

Sampfon Wright, Sampfon Rainsforth, Cha. Jealous, Patrick M'Manus, David, Miles, Mr. Gates, the city Marshal, and William Hyde depofed to the mob, and the outrages committed by them.

Lord Portchefter was called to prove, that the prifoner wore a blue cockade, John Lucy and Barnard Turner were examined as to the riots.

Edward Pond was shown a paper, purporting to be a protection, and he fwore that Lord G. Gordon figned it. On his cross-examination he faid that he applied to Lord George Gordon in his coach, with the paper ready written, and told him that it would be of fervice to him. He did not know whether Lord George ever read it over, nor whether that was the reafon that his property was faved.

John Dingwall was called to prove the hand writing of Lord George, but had never feen him write.

Mr. Medcalfe produced an extract from the journal of the Houfe of Commons relalative to the bill for the indulgence of Popery.

General Skene proved the riots in Scot

land.

Mr. Kenyon objected to this evidence as inapplicable to the prifoner, as he bad no connexion with the infurrect on in Edinburgh, if there was one. The AttorneyGeneral faid, that he had referred to the conduct of the rioters in Scotland, in what he had faid both at the meeting and in the lobby of the Houfe, and fet it up as an example of imitation to the affociation of London. Lord Mansfield read fome of the paffages that aliuded to the cafe, and was of opinion, that the evidence was appli cable.

Hugh Scot, Efq. and Robert Grierfon and William M'Kenzie, fervants to the Duke of Buccleugh, fpoke to the fame effect,

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