The jarring ftates obfequious now

View the Patriot's hand on high, Thunder gathering in his brow,

Lightening flashing from his eye. Borne by the tide of words along, One mind, one voice, infpire the throng, "To arms! to arms! to arms! they cry, "Grafp the fhield, and draw the fword, "Lead us to Philippi's lord,

"Let us conquer him-or die !"

Ah! Eloquence, thou waft undone, Waft from thy native country driven, When tyranny eclips'd the fun,

And blotted out the ftars of heaven.

When Liberty from Greece withdrew,
And o'er the Adriatic flew,

To where the Tiber pours his urn
She ftruck the rude Tarpeian rock,
Sparks were kindled by the stroke;

Again thy fires began to burn.

Now fhining forth thou mad'st compliant The Confcript Fathers to thy charms, Rouz'd the world-beftriding Giant,

Sinking fast in slavery's arms.

1 fee thee ftand by Freedom's fane, Pouring the perfuafive ftrain,

Giving vaft conceptions birth, Hark! I hear thy thunder found, Shake the forum round and round, Shake the pillars of the earth.

First born of Liberty divine!

Put on Religion's bright array,
Speak and the starless grave shall shine,
The portal of eternal day.

Rife, kindling with the orient beam,
Let Calvary's hill infpire the theme,

Unfold the garments roll'd in blood:
O touch the foul, touch all her chords
With all th' omnipotence of words,
And point the way to heaven-to God.
M.

Forrefler's Wynd, 13 July 1799.

FOR THE EDINBURGH MAGAZINE.

TO A BAGPIPE.

HAW. hain; by

AIL! Bagpipe, hail ! misca'd by some,

Wha duets an' cantatas hum,

In foreign twang;

Come! fcreed me up a dainty bum,
A highlan fang.

The breathing flute, the trembling lyre,
Hae aften kindled faft defire,
Hae fet the Bardies faul on fire

Wi' heavenly notes;

Cone, Bagpipe, come! a fang inspire
O' gude braid Scots.

'Mang fnawy hills, by mifts o'erhung.
Whare Galdus faught, whare Offian fung,
The pipe has loud an' aften rung;
The Clans afar,

Lap at the found; baith auld an' young.
They rush'd to war.

The pipers loud an' louder blew,
The battle fierce an' fiercer grew,
The Romans ran, Norwegians flew,

The Danes they fell,

An few o' them gat hame, I trew,
The news to cell.

In ither lands, by Ganges' banks,
Columbia's fields-Batavia's ftanks,
The pipe has led the Scottish ranks

Victorious on;

It weel deferves a nation's thanks,
Tho' ca'd a drone.

Aft ba'e I feen the highlan crew
Wi' plaid an' kilt o' tartan hue
Duneiden's ftrects paradin thro'

To cheerfu' drumin;

While "O the bony white an blue"
The bagpipes bumin.

The fqueekin fife, the trumpet's blaw,
Ne'er charm'd a highlan lad at a';
Let"owre the hills an' far awa"

On bagpipes rairin,
An then he'll lay down ony twa
As dead as herrin.

Returnin' fra the battle keen,
Lads wi' their laffes wad convene,
An' lilt it owre the gowany green,
To pipes fae clear;
Their fathers frae their cluds wad lean,
To fee an' hear!

Ob-on-o-ri! the chanter fails,
Whafe mufic bum'd upo' the gales,
That rouz'd the hills an' chear'd the vales
In days c' yore,

The pipe in unco lands bewails,
Its ain dear fhore.

Waes

Och, Morven! a' thy mufic's dead,
The Sheep are come, thy bairns are fled,
The mift row'd ghaift, baith grim an' dread,
His vifage fhaws;
The thriftle shakes his lonely head,
On ruin'd wa's!

A' ye wha fud your kintra keep,
O! dinna, dinna fa afleep;
Let Scotia's childer nae mair weep
Their kintra's ills;

There's room for men as weel's for Sheep!
On highlan' hills.

Rouze up the pipe's infpiring ftrain,
Till a' the Grampians ring again,
An' lear' the droopin highlan' men,
Industry's arts;
Then Gallia's fons may try in vain
To win their hearts.
M.

Forrester's Wand, 13 July 1799.

ODE

FOR HIS MAJESTY'S BIRTH DAY.

BY H. J. PYE, ESQ.

Set to Mufic by Sir W. Parfons.

STILL

LL fhall the brazen tongue of War Drown every fofter found:

Still fhall Ambition's iron Car

It's crimfon axles whirl around! Shall the fweet Lyre and Flute no more With gentle defcant soothe the shore, Pour in melodious strain the votive LayAnd hail in notes of Peace our Monarch's Natal Day?

O, Seraph Peace, to thee the Eye

Looks onward with delighted gaze; For thee the Matron breathes the fighTo thee their vows the Virgins raife; For thee the Warrior cuts his courfe Thro' armies rang'd in martial force, Tho' diftant far thy holy form is feen, And Mountains rife, and Oceans roll between !

Yet ev'ry fword that War unfheaths,

And ev'ry fhout that Conquest breathes, Serve but to make thy bleft return more fure, Thy glorious form more bright, thy empire more fecure!

When Northward from his wintry goal,
Returns the radiant God of Day,
And, climbing from th' Antarctic Pole,
Pours ev'ry hour a stronger ray,
Yet, as he mounts thro' Vernal Signs,
Oft with diminish'd beams he fhines;

EPODE I.

And firft his courtly tongue An am'rous measure fung

To foothe Arabia's queen in beauty's pride. The fame defcriptive strain

He once employ'd again,

To welcome home his fair Egyptian bride.
That ftrain on which the rural mufc
Had lavish'd all her richeft hues † ;
While the his fancy bade compare
To Gilead's goats her dancing hair!
To mildeft doves her eyes of tender blue,
To ripeft fruit her cheek's purpurcal
gleam;

Her lufcious lips to threads of scarlet hue, Her teeth to flocks emergent from the ftream;

Her ftately neck to David's lofty tow'r, Her breafts to twin-born roes, that crop the lily's flow'r.

STROPHE II.

But now he trikes the lyre again,
And wakes a mournful, moral strain§§:
And paints, in myftic diction fage,
The various wants and woes of age:
When life is but disease,

And pleafures cease to please; When all the days of joy are o'er, And Mufic's daughters fing no more; When each fair window fhall be clos'd in

night;.

When Hope fhall languish, and Defire fhall fail;

The manfion's trembling guards forget their might,

And caufelefs terrors ev'ry hour affail; Till death at laft relieve the weary foul, And loose the filver cord, and break the golden bowl.

ANTISTROPHE 11.

The theme which laft the monarch chofe,

To fill fublimer rapture rofe,

He fung celeftial Wifdom's praife ||||;
Her birth before the first of days;
Before the facred light
Unveil'd its radiance bright;

Before

SI Kings, chap. x.

4 Canticles, chap. iv. 1-5.

$$ Ecclefiaftes, chap. xii. 1-6.

Proverbs, chap. viii. 23-30.

When now Bathsheba's fon His fancy's course had run, With loud acclaim the vaulted arches rung; And Sheba's royal dame,

Whose praise was more than fame, Extoll'd his tuneful skill with honied tongue.

Then from her feat the graceful rofe*, And that bright hour of triumph chofe Once more that Wisdom's fea to found, Whofe depth the yet had never found; In either hand a flow'ry wreath she bore. Spontaneous one in Nature's garden grew, And one by mimic Art's deceitful lore, In all was form'd alike of shape and hue. "Great King," she said, " call forth thy judgment's pow'r,

"And tell me, which is Art's, and which is Nature's flow'r ?"

Plung'd in a fhoreless fea of thought pro

found,

And feiz'd his wand'ring eyes, and nail'd them to the ground.

ANTISTROPHE III.

His peers beheld th' approaching fhame,

And trembled for their mafter's fame; Each bent on him a mournful look, And each his beard with terror fhook. 'Twas hard that he who knew Each plant on ground that grew, From the low hyffop on the wall, To lofty Leb'non's cedar tall : 'Twas hard that Wifdom's pride fhould thus be ftain'd,

Be humbled thus, and by a female too; That him, whofe judgment had fuch triumphs gain'd,

So weak a trifle fhould at laft fubdue. Arabia's qoeen, with fecret pleasure fmil'd, And thought, at length, indeed, this mighty fage is foil'd.

EPODE III.

But now the monarch tries
Again to lift his eyes,

And on the window darts a tranfient glance;

A band of bufy bees

He there with rapture fees;

For Wisdom well can ufe the gifts of
Chance.

With inftant voice he gives command,
That one of those who nearest stand
The cafement ftrait should open wide,
And leave thefe infects to decide.
He fpoke, and it was done-the copious
fwarm,

With buzzing murmurs fill'd the fpacious hall;

And, led by Inftin&'s fure, unerring charm,

Upon the flow'r of Nature fettled all.The admiring crowd refum'd his praife again;

And

cried, that such a prince o'er all the world fhould reign.

HOUSE OF LORDS.-April 24. THE Lord Chancellor announced to the Houfe that his Majefty had been graciously pleafed to appoint Friday

next, at two o'clock, at St James's Pa

lace, to receive the joint Addrefs of bota Houfes on the Union with Ireland.

30. Lord Grenville moved, that a Secret

+1 Kings, chap. iii. 24, et feq.

Kings, chap. iv. 33.

cret Committee be ballotted for to-morrow, to confider and report the papers laid before the House by his Grace the Duke of Portland.

His Lordship then gave notice of his intention of moving that the Commons be requested to tranfmit their Report of their Secret Committee to that Houfe, that the fame might be referred to their Lordships' Secret Committee.

May 1. On the motion for the Secret Committee, Lord Grenville acquainted their Lordships, that having a circumftance to communicate which nearly concerned the privileges of that House, he would move the order for the exclufion of ftrangers.

The ftrangers were accordingly ordered to withdraw they were ftrictly excluded until the tranfaction of the routine business, during which interval the Secret Committee was ballotted for, to examine and report upon the State Papers laid before the Houfe by order of his Majefty.

3. Lord Grenville moved, that the Order of the House be read, commanding the attendance, at the Bar, of Mr Flower, the printer of the Cambridge Intelligencer, for having published a libel on the Lord Bishop of Llandaff, a Member of that House. The order to that effect being read, on a motion of Lord Grenville, after a few obfervations of Lord Kenyon, he was fentenced to pay a fine of Icol. and fuffer one year's imprifonment in the gaol of Newgate.

6. His Royal Highness Prince Edward took the oaths and his feat this day as Duke of Kent; and his Royal Highnels Prince Erneft Auguftus took the oaths and his feat as Duke of Cumberland.Each of the Princes were placed on feats recently erected for them on the left hand of the throne.

8. Lord Grenville brought down a Meffage from the King to the effect following:

1 "G. R.

"His Majefty having been graciously pleafed to take into his confideration the many and faithful fervices of Sir James Marriot, Knt. late Judge of his High Court of Admiralty, and being defirous of conferring upon him fome lafting proof of his approbation of, as well as reward for fuch fervices, is alfo graciouf ly pleased to grant him an annuity, during his natural life, of 2000l. the fame to be paid out of the Confolidated Fund, for which he defires the concurrence of this House."

The Meffage being read, Lord Gren ville moved that the fame be taken into confideration in a Committee of the whole Houfe to-morrow.-Ordered.

The Bill for granting to his Majefty 3,000,000l. by Exchequer Bills, was brought up from the Commons by Mr Long, read a firft time, and ordered for a fecond reading to-morrow.

10. The Royal Affent was given by Commiffion to the Bill for granting to his Majesty a Loan of Three Millions; to the Bill for extending the time for making returns to Commercial Commiffioners under the Income Bill; to the Land Tax Redemption Bills, and to 37 private Bills. The Commiffioners were the Duke of Roxburgh, the Earl of Leicester, and Lord Kenyon.

20. The Royal Affent was given by Commiffion to the Bill for continuing the Sufpenfion of the Habeas Corpus Actthe Bill for better regulating the Accommodations of Judges upon the Circuits the Bill for rendering perpetual the Acts affixing Punishment of Felons in certain cafes and to three private Bills.

The Order for the fecond reading of the Slave Trade Limitation Bill, which food for Thursday, was discharged, and renewed for Monday next; for which day the Houfe was ordered to be fummoned.

21. Read and forwarded the Bills on the Table in their refpective ftages, and agreed to the Scotch Bail Bill and Weft India Governor's Indemnity Bill.

22. Read a third time and passed the English Small Note and other Bills, and forwarded those on the Table in their refpective ftages.

24. The Report of the Militia Reduction Bill, which flood for this day, was, on the motion of Lord Grenville, poft poned to Monday next, as were alfo the other Orders of the Day. *

27. The Duke of Clarence brought up a petition from the Liverpool Merchants against the Slave carrying Bill. It was ordered to lie on the Table.

Lord Grenville, as Chairman of the Committee appointed to examine into the purport of the treasonable papers which, by order of his Majefty, were laid before their Lordships, reported the fame, which upon his Lordships motion was ordered to be printed.

The Bill for preventing fedition and feditious meetings was poftponed.

28. The Order of the Day for the confideration of the Slave-Carrying Bill