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Whilft angels wait to welcome thee on high, Weep with thy friends, and mourn their destiny!

Oh! fee, Seraphic Spirit, pitying fee What poignant anguifh fevers them from thee;

And as thy foul, reluctant, mounts to God, Teach them, with humble faith, to kiss the rod [down That bruifes fore their heads,and bows them Beneath the anger of th' Almighty's frown. But oh! as o'er thy pallid corfe they bend, And burfting fighs thy parents' bosoms rend, [divine Infpire them, O my child, with hope That thou wilt deign on them again to shine;

That when their difembodied fouls fhall rife, Free from all mortal drofs, and reach the skies,

Thy fpirit thall in cherub-guife appear, Such as it ufed erewhile on earth to wear. The pleafing thought our forrows shall confole, [foul: Blunt keen Affliction's pang, and footh the Anxious we'll mark how Nature glides away,

And brings us joyful to the wifh'd for day The happiest day that tedious time can Which burfts thefe hated bonds, and ves I. WTR.

us back to thee!

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To DR. ANDERSON, (the celebrated Editor, and Biographer of the British Poets), on bis Vifit to the BISHOP OF DROMOKE.

DISTINGUISH'D Stranger! welcome

to Dromcre,

Welcome to PERCY'S hofpitable dome, Where ev'ry friend of literary lore,

Where Genius always finds itself at home. As with the father of these blooming shades Inconverfe [weet you pass the classic hour, Methinks I fee the Nine harmonious Maids Conduct your wand'ring steps from bow'r to bow'r; Whilft Phoebus, leaning from his car on high,

And reining-in his fiery courfers' speed, Bends on his fav'rites a benignant eye,

Asthey along each winding walk proceed. Ev'n Nature's felf, in compliment to you, Herrichest robe of flowing verdure wears, The skies clear up, the birds their fongs renew,

And tardy Summer all at once appears. Friend of the Mufesl welcome to DromoreMay happiness attend you whilft you itay!

[Chore, And when you feek again your native May fafety shield you o'er the wat'ry way!

Dromore, Aug. 8, 1802. T. STOTT *.

* Concerning this ingenious writer, fee pur Magazine for june 18019 p. 548.

INSCRIPTION FOR A BOWER, Written at the Request of a Friend near Belfast,

HOU, whom the facred love of sweet

TH

repofe,

From the vexatious cares of bufy life Hath won, with confidence approach this Bow'r! [WOES, Abftracted from the follies, guilt, and That haunt too oft the crowded scene of ftrife; [blameless hour, Here may'st thou pafs the calm, the While dripping rocks their limpid ftores diftil,

And with a gentle, foul-compofing found, Into the vale defcends the murmʼring rill, And birds their blended fong pour thro the fhades around. Dromore.

HAFIZ.

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PROCEEDINGS IN PARLIAMENT, 1802.

M. OF

COMMONS.

May 17.

On the report of the bill for making allowance to fubaltern officers of milita, a claufe was agreed to for extending certain allowance to furgeons of militia in time of peace.

The House having resolved itself into a Committee upon the Sinking Fund, the Chancellor of the Exchequer announced his concurrence in the with feveral gentlemen had expreffed, to have the difcution of the bufinefs of the Sinking Fund poftponed unfil the bill on that fubject should be in poffeffion of the House; and he then moved his firft refolution, viz. "That 200,000! be added to the Sinking Fund, for the purpofe of discharging the Nationa! Debt;" by which means, the whole exifting debt would be paid in 45 years.

Calculations, fhewing the progress of the Sinking Fund towards this end, were ordered to be laid on the table; and, after fome obfervations from Mr. Boyd, Mr. Pitt, Mr. Tierney, &c. the refolutions were agreed to.

May 18.

The Houfe having refolved itfelf into a Committee on the Cotton Apprentice bill," feveral new claufes were adopted; and the bill, with its amendments, was ordered to be printed.

In a Committee on the Auction Duty bill, refolutions were adopted to exempt from the duty on auctieus eftates bought in by their owners or their agents, and goods imported in British fhips from America, or the British colonies in the Weft Indies, on their firft fale. It was alfo refolved, that the drawbacks on foap and ftarch, used in the woollen and cotton manufactures, should cease and determine.

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In the Commons, the fame day, the Militia bill was paffed.

The Attorney-General obtained leave to bring in a bill to require Aliens to give in their names to the proper officer where they landed, to ftate the object which they had in view, and alfo the place of their refidence, that the fame might be returned to Government.

May 21.

The Houfe having refolved itself into a Committee, to confider of certain Acts refpecting the police of the metropolis, the Attorney-General faid, the object he had in View was, to increase the falaries of the magiftrates of the police offices, and of the officers employed there; and alfo the wages of the conftables. He propofed to increase the falaries of the magiftrates to 500l. per annum, and the wages of the conftables to 16. per week. Agreed to.

Mr. W. Wynne moved the order of the day for the further confideration of the report of the Debtors' bill, on which fome debate took place; feveral members condemning, and others approving of the bill. It was, however, ordered to be re-committed.

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In the Commons, the fame day, Mr. Dent moved, that the bill to prevent Bullbaiting and Bull-running fhould be read a fecond time.

Sir R. Hill feconded the motion; and read an extract from a Bury newspaper, defcribing the treatment of a bull in that town; which, after having been baited, was let loofe, houghed, and in that state ftill expofed to the dogs, and pursued by the populace. The enraged animal finished its career by killing an induftrious man, the father of many children. The Baronet read feveral extracts from letters from different quarters of the country upon this fubject, all of which reprobated this inhu.. man fport, and ftrongly recommended him to perfift in his endeavours to procure an Act of Parliamest against it. After much animadverfion, he concluded with professing himself a warm advocate for the bill.

Mr. Windbam faid, that the evil complained of was only imaginary. There had not, for the last 20 years, been two bulls baited in the city he reprefented: he thought it a fubject to trivial for Legislative notice. An objection to cruel sports fhould be applied generally, and operat

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against hunting, fhooting, fishing, and courfing; against amufements of the rich as well as thofe of the poor, otherwife it was hypocrify and injuftice. This was an attempt to reform the manners of the people by thofe who had tried to reform the Conftitution. To accomplish this end, two parties were combined; the Methodifts and the Jacobins; both fprung from the fame ancestry: for, the Puritan of old and the modern Jacobin were equally determined in their hoftility to what, in cant language, they called lewd fports and aristocratic paftimes. He did not mean to infinuate, that the Methodists, as a religions people, were friendly, he should rather fuppofe they were adverse, to moral Jacobinifim, which had no religion at all. He then read an extract from a fermon, which flated, "that perfons who were not tender of the brute creation would not hesitate to fheath their daggers in the warm vit. Is of their fellow-creatures." If fuch were the fact, what was to be thought of the rich? They fhould abolish the whole of the game-laws, to preferve themfelves from the cenfure of this learned divine. After continuing for fome time in a ftrain alternately ludicrous and ferious, he concluded with flating, that if the bill before the Houfe fhould be adepted, he would conceive it his duty to move for leave to bring in a bill to prohibit hunting, fhooting, fishing, and all the fports of the field practifed by the higher orders.

Mr. Courtenay regretted the Legiflature fhou'd have employed itself on fo frivolous a fubject. If the practice of bull-baiting had, as an Hon. Member said, a tendency to prevent men from becoming Jacobins; if it had the means of preferving the Conftitution; it was the duty of every Member to be a friend to it.

General Gascoigne obferved, that in the country in which he refided, the practice of bull-baiting differed from that in Staffordfbire, Shropshire, and Hampshire. In Shropshire he understood that the balls were ornamented with flowers previous to their being baited, and their horns gilt and decorated. He stated, that a friend of his had frequently boafted to him of the num ber of men he had raised by bull-baiting; and that it was a practice which increated the population of the country in a much greater degree than the recruiting fervice thinned it. He hoped that the bill would be again rejected.

Mr. Wilberforce fpoke in favour of the bill; as wid Mr. Newbolt.

Mr. Frankland spoke against the bill. Mr. Ske idan, in a ftram of great humour, replied to the arguments of all the g nilemen who i ad fpoken against the bill. He Laid, General Gafcoigne had boafted that, rough the means of bull-bating, he had rated more men in one county than had ever been raised, and that, from the fame

caufe, the population increafed. He could eafily conceive that remark to have been a true one; for, bull-baiting produced idlenefs among the lower orders of different fexes, and confequently operated as an incentive to debauchery, and the promotion of population. The fame gentleman had fpoken of the decorations of the bull. If the bulls of this country were like the bulls mentioned by his deceafed friend, and were equally fuccefsful in promoting population, they were justly entitled to the fame decorative diftinctions he had alluded to. With refpect to Mr. Windham, he must allow for his feeling on the ceffation of hoftilities in every part of Europe; in which view it would appear, as if he wished to make fome compenfation to himfelf, in foment ing a war between the bulls and the dogs. He expatiated with great feeling on the cuftom of bull-baiting, as not only produ cing the most inconceivable tortures to the wretched animal, but tending to deaden the feelings of humanity in, and to brutalize, the minds of the beholder; and at fuch fights, women and children were often piefent: of this he ftated fome facts in illuftration. Among thefe, that of a bullbaiter, who, polieing an old bitch that lately had a litter of pappies, was willing to fhew the ftaunchnefs of her blood. fet the bitch at a bull; the pinned, and in that fituation he literally cut her to pieces, the animal fill keeping her hold. He then fold the puppies for five guineas apiece; after this he took out his knife, and, in a climax of brutality, cut the bitch's throat. Thefe facts thewed the diabolical and malignant fpirit with which fuch sports were conducted; and encouraging thefe, instead of making a people manly and generous, would, by inuring them to acts of cruelty, render them bafe, and fit to submit to the yoke of tyranny, and to bow to a vigour beyond the law.

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The House divided: for the fecond reading 51, agamft it 64. The bill was confequently lost.

May 25.

Mr. Dent gave notice, he should move for leave to bring in a bill to amend the laws relative to bull-baiting. (A laugh.)

The London Ff-market and Segar Export Bounty bills were passed.

H. OF LORDS.

May 26.

Lord Hobart moved the fecond reading of the Milua Regulation bill. The bill, he faid, was a confolidation of the Militia laws; and the only claufe which could create any difference of opinion, was that which tended to the aumentation of the Militia to 20,000 men beyond the ufual number. The circumstances of the country, and of Europe, were fuch as required

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an increafed military establishment; not, however, from any apprehenfion entertained by his Majesty's Government of the peace being infecure, or likely to be violated; as the fame pacific views which led France to conclude the peace ftill continued, and of its ftability they held the fame opinions as heretofore; but with a reference to the continental acquifitions of France, particularly oppofite to our coafts, her aggrandizements in other quarters, combined with a confideration of the general circumstances of the country. nifters were of opinion an increased military establishment was neceffary; and they deemed it preferable to augment the Militia, instead of increafing the standing army, not only on conftitutional, but economical grounds.

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Earl Fitzwilliam cenfured the measure in detail, as calculated to bear hard upon the lower orders of the people, and from their being required to pay as much as the rich for fubftitutes. He moved that the bill be read this day three months.

The Earl of Carnarvon feconded the motion, and cenfured the bill as an oppreffive tax upon landholders and the poor. He, however, expatiated upon the great utility of the conftitutional military force, and cited an inftance of their loyalty and willingness to ferve when he was ftationed in camp, near Plymouth, in the American

war.

The Marquis of Buckingham fpoke in favour of the measure; and after fome obfervations from the Earls of Romney and Radnor, and from Lord Pelbam, the House divided; for the fecond reading of the bill 22-against it 6.

In the Commons, the fame day, the Medicine S amp, the Irish Loan, and the Irish Sinking Fund bills were paffed.

In a Committee of Supply, 173.5351. was voted for the relief of the fullering Clergy and Laity of France, Corfican and St. Domingo fufferers, and American Loyalifts.

In a Committee on the Volunteer Corps bill, the Secretary at War moved the regulations enabling his Majefty to accept, at difcretion, the fervices of Volunteer Corps; which, after fome converfation, was agreed

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be forfeited, if any Negroes should be imported from Africa to clear or cultivate the fame. And that it was advisable not to permit any fales or grant, until time was given to Parliament to make fuch provifions as were compatible with the refolutions of the Houfe. And that his Majesty be graciously pleased to give directions, that no plan or regulation thall be adopted by his Majesty's Government, for promoting the cultivation of Trinidad, that was in the leaft likely to interfere with the refolution of the Houfe for the abolition of the flave trade."

After fome obfervations from the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the question was put, and negatived without a divifion.

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In the Commons, the fame day, Sir William Scott moved the order of the day for confidering the report of the Committee on the Clergymin's Non-refidence bill.

Mr. Simeon oppofed it; and argued at fome length against the principle of the bill, as calculated to reduce Clergymen to a ftate of abject dependance on the Bishops. He recommended that Government should, when the finances of the country permitted, make an addition of 40 or 50,000l. to Queen Anne's bounty, to be divided among the poorer Clergy, which would operate more to encourage the Clergy to attend to their duty than this bill could poffibly do.

The Chancellor of the Exchequer faid, as the object of the bill was to protect a most refpectable clafs of men from vexatious profecutions, and as it was prepared and introduced from motives which could fpring from no other fource than a strong feufe of public duty, he trusted the House would not act fo ungraciously as to refift its progrefs in this late stage. It was not a meature ob'ruled on the Houfe, but one which was called for by the aim it unanimous fentiment of the beft men in the country, who felt for the fatferings of the Clergy, to make comfortable

comfortable provifion for the lower clafs of whom he thought highly neceflary. He regretted that it was impoffible in the courfe of this feflion to arrange the bufinefs; no money would, in his opinion, be more ufefully applied, than to the relief of fuch men; to promote Religion itself, it was wife to make its Minifters at least independent that Religion, without which, however we might rely on the ability of eur statesmen, or the courage of our warriors, it would be vain to look for national tranquillity and happiness. In order, therefore, to forward the interefts of that invaluable bleffing, it was intended to increase the places of public worship in thofe diftricts where the population had increased, and, by giving a competence to all claffes of the Clergy, encourage them in the exercife of their duty.

Mr. M. A Taylor disapproved of the bill, which he conceived to be a virtual repeal of the Statute of Hen. VIII. He faid, the bill was very unpopular among the Clergy, as they would rather go before a Jury than truft to the difcretion of a Bithop.

The Mafter of the Rolls anfwered to the objections of Mr. Taylor. The nature of

the Statute of Hen. VIII. be faid, must be wholly inefficient, or intolerably oppreffive. He concluded with fupporting the bill.

Mr. Taylor explained.

The Attorney General supported the moon for recommitting the bill; but declared, that, if it fhould come out of the Committee without confiderable amendments, he would not feel difpofed to favour its ultimate adoption.

Mr. Windham confidered the A&t of Henry VIII. as difereditable to the Church; for, by giving to the Civil Tribunals the power to enforce the refidence of the Clergy, it paffed an indirect cenfure upon those who were at the head of the Church establishment. He was unwilling to expofe the Clergy to profecutions in courts of Law. There was a fpecies of baiting to which he was not an enemy; but he did not with that bull-dogs in white wigs and black gowns fhould be fet at the Clergy to bait them.

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feffion. He contended, that nothing effectual could be done unless the plan was fupported by Government; and that no plan would be adequate, which did not augment the falaries of the inferior orders of the Clergy.

Lords Suffolk, Alvanley, Rolle, and the Lord Chancellor, briefly noticed what had fallen from Lord Grenville.

In the Commons, the fame day, the Secretary at War prefented the Army Etti

mates.

In a Committee of Supply, Admiral Berkeley, after detailing the benefits which had already refulted to fociety from the Vaccine Inoculation, moved that 10,000l. be granted to Dr. Jenner for making the difcovery.

Sir H. Mildmay faid, if Dr. Jenner had kept the fecret to himfelf, he might have amaffed an immenfe fortune; and moved that the reward might be 20,0001.

After fome debate, the Houfe voted 10,000l.

Mr. Burdon moved, that roool. might be granted to Mr.Greathead, for his inven tion of the Life Boat.

After fome difcuffion, in which Sir M. W. Ridley wifhed the reward fhould be increafed to 2000l.; on the fuggestion of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, it was agreed to grant 1200l. to cover the fees of office.

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The Houfe of Commons having, the fame day, refolved ittelf into a Committee on the Sinking Fend bill;

The Chancellor of the Exchequer stated the advantages of the meafore. The House had now, he faid, by the plan proposed, the profpect of feeing the country relieved of a confiderable part of its debt in a much fhorter period than by the old plan. In the year 1808 there would be a fum of 512,000l. of fhort annuities paid off, and confequently at the difpofal of Parliament towards the reduction of the debt; there would also be a tum of 1,500,000l. to be applied in the fame manner, or in relieving the country from taxes, by paying off the 5 per cents. The great benefit of it allo was, that by its immediate effect it precluded the receffity of impofing taxes to the amount of 900,000l. and relieving the debt by paying off these two fums of 512,000l. and 1,500,000l. He concluded by obferving, that the operation of the new plan would afford the country an ample refource in the event of a renewal of the war at any future period.

Mr.

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