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Know'st thou the MAN

Whom neither fear nor favour can controul?
His in-born worth and probity of foul,
Mild as the vernal gale or fofteft lay,
Firm as the rock that fpurns the roaring sea,
Inflexible and fteady to his truft,
Barely to fay he's upright, is unjuft.
Father! be proud; affume thy later fame;
Hear and rejoice; he bears thy honour'd
name !

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

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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
To tend his flocks, or til the ground;
Ere Phoebus gilds the azure fkies,

And throws her ruddy beauties round.

And when the carol fweet he hears,
No longer drowsy fleep prevails;
Thy thrilly notes falute his ears,
And echo through the diftant vales.

With joy he greets thy pleafing train,
Which calls him forth to guard the plain.

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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
Or Ghoft their infant ears affail,
Or Bug-a boo! or Chimney-fweep!
To terrify them into fleep.

Thus, when matur'd by rip'ning age,
And brought upon the world's great flage,
No midnight horrors vex the foul
Of howling dog, or hooting owl!
But on they move, with manly tread,
Acrofs the manfions of the dead;
Or pafs the ruin'd tower, where
Tradition fays 'Goblins appear.
Not fo the hapless wight, whose mind
Is in the nursery confin'd,

Who bears about him, as a curfe,
The ftrong impreffions made by Nurfe;
He fees the flaming cinder fly
From out the grate, then with a figh
Exclaims, A cotrin-1 fhall die!
"And fee, a winding theet does glide

Adown the candle's gutt'ring fide!"
Thus does conceit o'er fenfe prevail,
Which brings me to the following tale :

Near fam'd St Giles' tow'ring fane,
In the clofe windings of a lane,
And, fnug retreat from public eye!
In the next Rory to the sky,
Two Taylors lodged in the fame bed,
One Mayo nam'd-the other Ned:
One winter evening as they fat
With ale and pipe in freindly chat,
Quoth Mayo," Ned, you are my friend,
Upon whofe faith I can depend;

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"I must be off before 'tis light;
"To fea my courfe I mean to shape,

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,

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"He may be in a wat'ry tomb,
"Or 'midft the horrors of a wreck,
"Or wounded bleeding on the deck,
"Alas! why did he tempt the main ?
"I ne'er fhall fee my friend again!"
At this he hears a mournful found
Proceeding as from under ground,
Repeat with hollow voice, and flow,
These words" Mayo, mayo, mayo!"
With hair erect, and flaring eyes,
Poor trembling Ned, in wild furprize,
The bed-clothes o'er him nimbly drew;
Then bawls, "In God's name who are
you?

"If you're my late much valu'd friend,
"And met with an untimely end,
"You know I never did you harm,
"Then why my fpirits thus alarm?

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,
"Not quite fo good as catching mice!

You alone can explain, who alone are the

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Alluding to the well known coppice at the entrance of this river, facred to Otway's

enius and his woes.

T. E.

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CHORUS.

What man to his mistress or wife wilt re-
turn,

And fay, "I have fied from the foe,
"My honour is gone, in the grave let me

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,
When his Indies no longer remain ;

And the Dutchman, a frog in the days of
Queen Best,

Shall croak in his ditches again.
But how needless to talk of our prowess in

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!
CHO.-May the King, &c.

COMMERCIAL PROSPERITY.

WHILE the fubject of Frencho IP-
HILE the fubject of French Op-

flection as difgutting to humanity, it is
impothble to advert to the topics of the
prefent Estimates without being truck
with the difference between France and
Great Britain; first, in the amount of
Revenue compared with Expenditure;
and lecondly, in the fources from which
that Revenue is drawn. Great Britain,
as the annexed Tables will fhew, draws
her means for carrying on the War from

the increafing Manufactures and Trade
of her people, and from a commercial
intercourfe beneficial to foreign coun-
tries, at the fame time that it adds to
the wealth and prosperity of their own.
France wrings her fupplies + from requi-
fitions on her own inhabitants, her
friends, and allies, from the pillage and
rapine inflicted on the unfortunate coun-
tries fhe has over-run. Great Britain,
while the pays the interest of her funded
debt at the hour it is due, provides,

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.

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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

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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.

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