Know'st thou the MAN Whom neither fear nor favour can controul? Do I then flatter? What, for dirt and pence? 'Tis falfe, ye hirelings! wretches, get ye hence. What for fome meed? with me as light as air, Trifles and toys beneath my ferious care. Where intereft, titles, and e'en power are TH How grateful is thy early lay; When by the breath of Heav'n thou'rt borne, To fing thy hymn at break of day. Thou tell ft the peasant when to rife And throws her ruddy beauties round. And when the carol fweet he hears, With joy he greets thy pleafing train, Then comes the hour, to fome of [weet repaft, When focial comfort mans the drooping foul, Me a large brood and scolding wife controul, And foon the noify fcanty meal is past. Thank Heaven, at laft both brats and wife a bed, I quaff the foaming pot; ah! sweet regale, And from my pipe the fragrant weed inhale, While circling eddies play around my head. Then fimile at fate, who doom'd me thus to chefe A wife prolific, and a barren Mufe. SMELLFUNGUS. From my Apartments, Cow Crofs, Feb. 11, 1799. THE GHOST. A TALE. WOULD you your tender offspring rear With minds well form'd, devoid of fear, Ne'er let the nuife with idle tale Thus, when matur'd by rip'ning age, Who bears about him, as a curfe, Adown the candle's gutt'ring fide!" Near fam'd St Giles' tow'ring fane, "Know "I must be off before 'tis light; But let not this your lips efcape, "And now and then I'll write you, Ned, "If not, you may suppose me dead." Th' aftonifh'd Taylor fees his friend Quick down the garret stairs descend, And hears thefe awful words with dread, "Farewell-I'm yours, alive or dead !""And yet, why need I feel alarm? "I never did poor Mayo harm," Says Ned;" and, fhould his Ghost appear, "I'll fpeak to it: why should I fear?" 'Twas at that drear and awful hour, When Ghofts and Goblins fhew their power, The clock ftruck one, when thoughtful Ned Lay reftlefs tumbling in his bed, "Something not quite fo fweet as amber!" Then thrufts him in the Pot de Chambre; Saying, "You've been a Ghoft to me, "You're there fore laid in the Red Sea !" SENNED. VERSES ON HIS OWN BIRTH DAY, 1799, Written by the Hon. Chas. James Fox, ADDRESSED TO A LADY. OF years I have now half a century paft, And none of the fifty fo blefs'd as the laft: How it happens my troubles thus daily fhould ceafe, And my happiness thus with my years should increase; "Who knows (quoth he) poor Mayo's This defiance of Nature's more general laws, doom, "He may be in a wat'ry tomb, "If you're my late much valu'd friend, If to discover hidden treafure, "I trembling wait your awful leifure! Or be your business what it may, I follow-pray you lead the way; "And as your form you will not show, "Pray let me hear your voice!"- Mayo! In mournful founds he hears once more, And thinks them near his garret door; Then gently stepping from his bed, And peeping round, o'erwhelm'd with dread! Behind the door, low couch'd he fpies A huge black cat, with faucer eyes! And now his heart no longer quals, When thus Grimalkin he affails: "What devil put it in thy head "To take thy station near my bed! "I'll give thee fomething in a trice, You alone can explain, who alone are the Alluding to the well known coppice at the entrance of this river, facred to Otway's enius and his woes. T. E. CHORUS. What man to his mistress or wife wilt re- And fay, "I have fied from the foe, mourn "A difgrace that no Briton fhould know ?" The Frenchman, who, fierce for dominion, has cried "To France fhall the world be a slave!” Submitting, fhall lower his top-fail of pride, And kulk to his ports from the wave. CHO. May the King, &c. The Spaniard too late fhall his folly confess, And the Dutchman, a frog in the days of Shall croak in his ditches again. war, And proclaim what an univerfe knows! May the King live for ever the friend of Let Old N.le, who has witness'd our wonders, our Inle, Who revolts at the name of a Slave; Whefe eye for fair merit poffeffes a fmile, And a tear for the tomb of the brave. declare What it is to have Britons for foes! COMMERCIAL PROSPERITY. WHILE the fubject of Frencho IP- flection as difgutting to humanity, it is the increafing Manufactures and Trade This loval and patriotic effufion was written by the celebrated Peter Pindar, and fung at the Bath Harmonic Society, March 1799. The Directory announced, for the first time, in distinct terms, in a Meffage to the two Councils, on the 2d of February 1799, "That their whole receipt does not exceed one million livres a day (about 15,000,cool. fterling a year), including the fale of the national property and the fall of timber in the forefts, which form no part of the annual revenue ;— that the means of paying the army could no longer be depended upon ;-that no provifion could be made for the navy ;-that other payments of a most urgent nature were fufpended; -that the public credit was daily declining, which neceffarily affected that of individuals ;that their expences were increafing, and that the service, which was before cramped, was exposed to an immediate and fatal catastrophe :”—which facts they stated as incontrovertible. Whoever will be at the trouble of confidering the la Comptes rendus by the Treasury, and the reports of the Commiffion of France, will be convinced that the taxes paid by the people of France, and of the new departments, amount to little more than a fourth of the revenue under the Monarchy, although the people are taxed in at least a threefold proportion to what they were before the Revolution. Complaints, and refusals to pay the taxes, are met with throughout the country. 3 from from the furplus of the taxes levied to anfwer that intereft, a fund which in a certain period pofitively fecures the dif charge of the principal of that debt.— France, while fhe is often obliged to withhold the intereft due to her creditors, is forced from time to time to confefs enormous deficits in her annual revenue below the amount of her annual expendi ture. The exports of British Manufactures, which, during feven profperous years of Peace, ending in January 1792, averaged in value 13,314,000l. have been increased, in these last feven years, to an average of 17,322,000l. and amounted in the fixth year of the war to 19,771,000l. This alone affords no unequivocal proof, that, under the preffure of new burdens, and during the continuance of the eventful content in which we are engaged, the Manufactures, the Commerce, and the Navigation of the Country have flourished beyond the example of all former times. TOTAL VALUE OF IMPORTS INTO GREAT BRITAIN IN THE FOLLOWING TOTAL VALUE OF EXPORTS FROM GREAT BRITAIN IN THE FOLLOWING JOURNAL OF THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE THIRD SESSION OF THE EIGHTEENTH PARLIAMENT OF GREAT BRITAIN, (Continued from Page 128.) TUESDAY, JAN. 8. HOUSE OF LORDS. ALONG converfation took place re fpecting Colonel Despard, and the prifon in which he is confined, which was at length put an end to by the Lord Chancellor as being irregular; after which the Income Tax Bill was read a third time and passed. WEDNESDAY, JAN. 9. The Royal Affent was given by Commiffion to the Income Tax Bill, the Habeas Corpus Sufpenfion Bill, the Newfoundland Judicature Bill, the Bill for exempting certain Perfons belonging to Volunteer Corps from ferving in the Militia, the Annual Indemnity Bill, and sight Naturalization Bills. TUESDAY, JAN. 22. Lord Grenville acquainted their Lord hips, that he had a Meffage from his Majefty, which he was commanded to deliver to that Houfe; and moved that his Majefty's Message be now read. The Mellage was accordingly read from the Woolfack, and afterwards by the Clerk at the Table, and was as follows: "G. R. His Majefty is perfuaded that the unremitting induftry with which our enemies perfevere in their avowed defign of effecting the feparation of Ireland from this Kingdom, cannot fail to engage the particular attention of Parliament; and his Majefty recommends it to this Houfe to confider of the moft effectual means of counteracting and finally defeating this defign, and he trufts that a review of all the circumftances which have recently occurred (joined to the fentiment of mutual affection and common intereft) will difpofe the Parliaments of both King. doms to provide, in the manner which they fhall judge moft expedient, for fettling fuch a complete and final adjustment as may belt tend to improve and perpetuate a Connexion effential for their common fecurity, and to augment and VOL. XXXV. March 1799. confolidate the ftrength, power, and refources of the British Empire." After the Meffage was read, Lord Grenville moved that his Majefty's Meffage be taken into confideration to-morrow, and that the House be sum moned thereupon, which was ordered. WEDNESDAY, JAN. 23. Lord Grenville moved, That the Order of the Day for taking his Majefty's molt graciousMeffage into confiderationberead. His Lordship then moved a fhort Addrefs to his Majefty upon the occafion, which being read from the Woolfack, appeared to run to the following effect: The House returned their thanks to his Majefty for his moft gracious communication, and expreffed their conviction of his Majefty's paternal regard for, and attention to, the welfare of his Irish fubjects; and alfo expreffed their readineis to concur in any measures which, on due examination, might be found neceffary or expedient towards the confolidation of the general interefts of the British Empire. The question being put, the Addrefs was voted nem. dif. THURSDAY, JAN. 31. Some private business and matters of courfe occupied their Lordships. |