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It once had got a ftately wick,
When in its patent-candlestick
The Revolution put it i
As white as wax we faw it thine

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[love bee' I think they love ven'fon; I know But-hang it !-to poets, that feldom can

Thro' two whole lengths of Brunswick's line, Your very good mutton's a very good tre

'Till B-firft dared to fmut it.

Since then- but wherefore tell the tale ?.
Enough, that now it burneth pale,
And forely waftes its tallow:
Nay, if thy poet rightly weens,
(Tho' little fkill'd in ways and means).

Its fave-all is but shallow.
Come then, ingenious arrist, come,
And put thy finger, and thy thumb,
Into each polifh'd handle;
On thee alone our hopes depend,
Thy king's, and eke thy country's friend,
To trim old England's candle.
But firft we pray, for its relief,
Pluck from its wick each tory thief,
It elfe must quickly rue it ;
While N- and M-fputter there,
Thou'lt ne'er prevent with all thy care,
The melting of the fuet.

XCIX. The Haunch of Venifon, a poetical Epifle to Lord Clare, by the late Dr. Gold Smith is. 6d.

A pleasing humourous epifle—it begins Thanks, my lord, for your ven'son; for finer, or fatter, [platter: Never rang'd in a foreft, or fmok'd in a The haunch was a picture for painters to study; [ruddy!

The white was fo white, and the red was fo I had thoughts, in my chamber to hang it in

view,

To be shown my friends, as a piece of Virtù; As in fame Irish houses, where things are fo.fo,

One a gammon of bacon hangs up for a fhow; But, for eating a rather of what they take pride in, [fry'd.in. They'd as foon think of eating the pan it is But hold-let us paufe-don't I hear you pronounce

This tale of the bacon a damnable bounce? Well, fuppofe it a bounce; fure a poet may

try, [Ay By a bounce now and then, to get courage to But, my lord, it's no bounce: I proteft in, my turn, [Burne. It's a truth; and your lordship may afk Mr. To go on with my tale-as I gaz'd on the haunch, [staunch: I thought of a friend that was trufty and, So I cut it, and fent it to Reynolds undreft, To paint it, or eat it, juft as he lik'd best. Of the neck and the breaft. I had next to difpofe; [val Monroe's: 'Twas a neck and a breaft-that might riBut in parting with thefe I was puzzled again, [and the when: With the bow, and the who, and the zubere,

Such dainties to them! it would look lik Alirt,

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C. The Tears of the Footguards, of
their Departure for America, written byne
Enfign in the Army. 1s. Kearfley.

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Cl. An Answer to the Tears of the Fo guards, &c. 15. Kearsley,

Both thefe poems feem to be the prod tion of the fame pen. The effeminacy fome of our modern officers is well defcri and we wish the fatyr may have the de effect.

CII. Bedlam, a Ball, and Dr. Prices fervations on the Nature of Civil Liber poetical Medley. 19. Dooley.

An incoherent, unprofit, ble medley. CHI. The South Wiltshire Petitioner Mock Heroic Poem, attempted after the Me ner of Hudibras. 14. Snagg.

Alatyr on a Weft country knight, ftiled in the poem, Sir Blufter, for interefti himself in procuring a petition to Parliame for conciliatory measures with America. e performance hath humour, and the ftory well told; but we think the writer might with equal propriety (if not more) have prefixed the word fmuggled to tire addresses, an well as the petitions.

CIV. An Addrefs to the Genius of Ame rica. By the Rev. Chriftopher Wells. Dudley.

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Our author's genius is very unequal to the task he hath affumed.

CV. A Letter to a Baptift Minifter, containing fome Strictures on his late Condutt in the Baptization of certain Adults at Shrewfbury, &t. 15, 6d. Robinson.

Many fires have been kindled by the quef tion about water baptifm, and those who ufe the most water and have been dipped all over, it is remarkable, are the most fiery and contentious. This letter writer indeed is warm, although an advocate for fprinkling : the arguments are conclufive, and which have often before been urged in the controversy, but he hath wandered alfo into politics and things too deep for him.

CVI. Reflections on Government with respect to America. Is. Lewis.

For the Colonies, but nothing new, CVII. Remarks on a Pamphlet lately. published by Dr. Price. Is. Cadell.

CVIII. The plain Question upon the prefent Difputes with our American Colonies, "2d,

Wilkie.

These two pamphlets have the appearance of minifterial extraction-they aver boldly and decide with temerity. The question is no

thing,

Thefe Initials, like thofe in the banns of marriage published between N. and M. way be

filled up at the reader's pleasure,

Vide Common Prayer Book.

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the plainer, however, for all their pages, ftill the most critical, as well as imat one that ever engroffed the public at

on.

LICATIONS THIS MONTH, fides thofe that have been reviewed.

ICAN AFFAIRS and POLITICAL OMMON Senfe and Plain Truth. 19. 6d.

Almon.

dependency the Object of the Congrefs America; or, An Appeal to Facts. 19.

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to the Public. Addreffed in a Series of Let ters to the now (by a late Act of Parliament) Mifs Mary Lovell. 2 Vols. 5s. Bew.

MISCELLANEOUS. Three Dialogues concerning Liberty. 29. Dodfley

Euphrolyne; or, Amusements on the Road of Life, By the Author of the Spiritual Quixote, 35, Dodfley.

The Political Mirror. By a Student of the Inner Temple. 15. 63. Becket.

A Letter to the Liverymen of London, on their late Conduct in the Choice of a Cham

Oration in Memory of General Mont-berlain, and the Conduct that is expected of

and of the Officers and Soldiers who h him, December 31, 1775, before Drawn up, and delivered Feb. 76, at the Defire of the Honourable Mental Congrefs. By William Smith, 6d. Almon.

Cous and impartial Obfervations on the ngs of Liberty and Peace. Addreffed rfons of all Parties, inviting them allo

into that Grand Affociation, which e to fecure the Safety and Happiness of British Empire. By a Clergyman in Zerfhire. 15. 6d. Oliver.

An Effy on the Origin, Progress and Establishment of National Society: In which the Principles of Government and the Defi

s of Phyfical, Moral, Civil and Religious Liberty, contained in Dr. Price's Obfervations, &c. are fairly examined and fully refuted, &c. By J. Shebbeare, M. D. 3s.' Bew.

HISTORY AND MEMOIRS. The Life of the late Pope Clement XIV. an Appendix, confifting of original, ers and Papers, particularly relative to the Jefuits, and the Brief of his Holiness. for the Abolition of their Order. Tranflated

from the French of the Abbe Caraccioli. 5. Johnson.

Some Memoirs of the Life and Works of George Edwards, Fellow of the Royal and Antiquarian Societies, and Author of the Natural Hiftory of Birds and other rare and undefcribed Animals, &c. By Sir Charles. Linnæus, 45. Robson,

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Authentic Anecdotes of the Life and Tranfactions of Mrs. Margaret Rudd: confifting, of a great variety of Facts hitherto unknown

them at the approaching E.ection of a proper Perfon to fill that important Office. By a Brother Liveryman. Is. Bladon.

NOVEL S.

The Story of Lady Juliana Harley: a Novel. In Letters. By Mrs. Griffith. 2 Vols. 55. Cadell.

POETRY.

Garrick's Looking-Glafs; or, The Art, of Rifing on the Stage. A Poem in three Cantos. Decorated with Dramatic Characters. By the Author of * 2s. 6d. Evans.

The fair Villager, a Tale; with other Mifcellaneous Poems. 1s, 6d. Becket, Mac Fingal. A Modern Epic Poem. 15. Almon.

The Temple of Mammon. A Poem, r Davies.

RELIGIOUS.

A Sequel to the Apology on refigning the Vicarage of Catterick, Yorkshire. By Theophilus Lindfey, A. M. With a Preface giving fome Account of the principal Wri-. tings against the Apology. 7. Johnson.

Sentimental Difcourfes upon Religion and Morality. By a Lady. 2s. 6d. Becket.

Paul's Epifle to the Ephefians, as a

A Paraphrafe and large Annotations on Specimen of the like Performance on the entire Gofpel. 1s. Lewis.

An Enquiry into the Powers of Ecclefiaftics, on the Principles of Scripture and Reafon. 4s. Murray.

The Day of Slaughter; a Vifitation Sermon, intended to have been preached at the Cathedral Church of By W. Hammond, A. M, 6d. Wilkie.

A Calculation and Type of the great and total ECLIPSE of the Moon in July 1776, for London and Bristol. By Mr. James Lovegrove, of Bristol.

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On Tuesday the 30th of July, near twelve at night, will happen the greateft eelipfe of

the Moon there has been for 26 years paft, and a greater than will happen for many years to come; visible to all Europe, Africa, the Ifland of Madagascar, all the leffer ifles of the Indian Sea, the Atlantic Ocean, in Iceland, Greenland, Newfoundland, the island of Cape Breton, the Caribbee Islands, Terra Firma, and through South America.

The first principles of Aftronomy and Geography are now fo well known, it feems unnecef fary to give a particular defcription of a lunar eclipfe, it being caufed by the moon's paffing thro' the earth's fhadow (caft by the fun, and extending beyond the moon's orbit) and being

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POETICAE ESSAYS.

The OLD WOMAN and her TWO
DAUGHTERS.

An unfinished CANTERBURY TALE.
PON a time (our author fays)
Whether in old or modern days,
An ancient woman did exift;
But locally he'll not infift;
Though fome will tell ye-out of doubt,
Her refidence was hereabout;

And farther-they to prove the fame,
Say England was her maiden name;
Who in her early years was wild,
And had, by chance, a natʼral child,
A lovely daughter, paffing fair,
Whom the nurs'd up with fpecial care ;
Until at length the damfel grew
Of age, and ripe difcretion too:
She nam'd her Freedom (as 'tis faid)
And long carefs'd the beauteous maid;
And in return, the pious daughter
Exemplify'd the precepts taught her ;
No duty of a child omitting,
But with a carriage fo befitting,
Demean'd herself alike to all

Who knew her, whether great or small;
That in fuch high esteem fhe flood
Throughout that fpacious neighbourhood,
That (as the faying has it) none
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Without her was no happiness;
Without her nature fmil'd in vain
On mountain, mead, or flow'ry plain ;
Without her, plenty's felf repin'd;
No fcience taught, or art refin'd,
Or purg'd the fæces of the mind;
Content grew heart-fick with her lot,
And peace her very name forgot;
Defpair deny'd fair hope relief,
And patience loft itself in grief.

Depriv'd of Freedom's placid mien,
All pleasure ficken'd into spleen ;
The ruddy check of health grew pale ;
Nor youth nor beauty could prevail ;
No heart was light enough to fing,
Or finger touch'd the lyric ftring;
No feftive mirth at wakes were seen,
Or dance or gambol on the green ;
The paft'ral reed neglected lay,
And sheep and fhepherds went aftray.

Where Freedom's prefence was deny'd,
A damp prevail'd which none cou'd hide;
Industry idle grew, and thought
Her wonted labours done for nought,
Or grudgingly the painful hand
Of agriculture till'd the land.
Sad defolation claim'd the foil;

While hinds, dejected, ceas'd to toil,

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