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Poetical Essays for JANUARY, 1763.

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For the NEW-YEAR, January 1, 1763.

By WILLIAM WHITEHEAD, Esq;

Poet Laureat.

1.

A length th' imperious lord of war

Yields to the Fates their ebon car, And frowning quits his toil: Dafh'd from his hand the bleeding spear Now deigns a happier form to wear, And peaceful turns the foil. Th' infatiate furies of his train, Revenge, and Hate, and fell Difdain, With heart of fteel, and eyes of fire, Who ftain the fword which Honour draws,

Who fully Virtue's facred caufe,

To Stygian depths retire. Unholy fhapes, and shadows drear, The pallid family of Fear, And Rapine, ftill by fhrieks pursu’d, And meagre Famine's fqualid brood Clofe the dire crew-Ye' eternal gates, difplay [the day! Your adamantine folds, and shut them from

II.

For lo, in yonder pregnant skies
On billowy clouds the goddess lies

Whose prefence breathes delight! Whofe power th' obfequious feafons

own,

And Winter lofes half his frown,

And half her shades the Night, Soft-fmiling Peace, whom Venus bore When tutor'd by th' inchanting lore Of Maia's blooming fon, She footh'd the Synod of the gods, Drove Difcord from the bleft abodes,

And Jove refum'd his throne. Th' attendant graces gird her round, And sportive Eafe with locks unbound, And every mufe to leisure born, And Plenty with her twisted horn, While changeful Commerce fpreads her loofen'd fails,

Blow, as ye lift, ye winds, the reign of Peace prevails.

III.

And fee, to grace that milder reign, Sweet Innocence adorns the train, And deigns a human frame to wear, In form and features Albion's heir,

A future George !-Propitious powers,
Ye delegates of heaven's high king,
Who guide the years, the days, the hours
That float on Time's progreffive wing,
Exert your influence, bid us know
From parent worth what Virtues flow!
Be to lefs happy realms refign'd

The warrior's unrelenting rage,
We afk not kings of hero kind,

The ftorms and earth quakes of their To us be nobler blessings given: [age, O teach us, delegates of heaven, What mightier blifs from union fprings! Future fubjects, future kings, Shall blefs the fair example shown, And from our character tranfcribe thei

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The fparkling worlds above shall show
The glittering of the earth below,
In strongest characters fhall fhine,
Almighty pow'r and art divine.

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Then welcome, Winter, with thy fable
[again.
Thee, I'll admire, till Spring return
IV.

Altho' the fmooth meand'ring rill
No more with gentle murmurings fil
The liftning ear, now iwell'd with rain,
Red'ning it rushes o'er the plain,
Scorning its low and narrow thores,
Down the rough rock in thunder roars,
Then foaming falls; in this we find
A grandeur that exalts the mind.
Then welcome, Winter, with thy fable
train,
[Smile again.
Thou haft thy charms, and Spring fhall

V.

When low'ring clouds obfcure the day,
And rattling tempests round me play,
When raging winds drive on the rain,
Overturn the trees and flood the plain;
When the form howls with hideous din
How bleft am I to be within,

With focial friends and chearful fire,
What should I wifh, what more defire?
Then welcome, Winter, with thy fable
train,
[fmile again.
Thou haft thy joys, and Spring fhall

VI.

Then fhall the poet's varied ftrain,
Give pleating artificial pain,
Or with heroic ardour fire,
Or foft beneficence inspire.
From the divine and moral page,
I lay up treafures for my age,
Nor think the talk too grave for youth,
To feek and trace eternal truth.

Then welcome, Winter, with thy fable
train,
[fmile again.
Thou hast thy joys, and Spring shall
Oft to relieve the pleafing toil,
With jocund mirth the hours fhall smile,
And all thofe joys that noise and show
Crouds, drefs, and dancing, can bestow,
Shall shift the fcene, and with the gay,
The frolic hours fhall glide away;
To minds content each feafon brings
Its change of pleafures on its wings.

Then welcome, Winter, with thy fable train, [fmile again. Thou hast thy charms, and Spring shall Kincardinfbire, Nov. 1762. JUL. NORTH.

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EPILOGUE, by Mr. CARRICK.

Sp ken by Mrs. CIBBER.

Adies and Gentlemen-'tis fo ill bred-We have no Epilogue, because I am dead;

For he, our Bard, with frenzy-rolling eye, Swears you fhan't laugh, when he has made you cry.

At which I gave his fleeve a gentle pull, Suppofe they should not cry, and should be

dull:

In fuch a cafe, 'twould furely do no harm, A little lively nonsense taken warm : On critic ftomachs delicate and queafy, 'Twill even make a heavy meal fit eafy. The Town bates Epilogues It is not true, I anfwer'd that for you--and you-andyou-To Pit, Boxes, and firft Gal. They call for Epilogues and hornpipes [To the Upper Gal.. Madam, the Critics fay--To you they're [Devil

too

civil, Here, if they have them not, they'll play the Out of this houfe, Sir, and to you alone, They'll fmile, cry "Bravo! Charming!”

Here they groan?

A fingle Critic will not frown, lock big,
Harmless and pliant as a fingle twig ;
But crouded here they change, and 'tis not
odd,

For twigs, when bund'ed up, become a rod. Critics to Bards, like beauties to each other, When tête à tête their enmity they smother; Kifs me, my Dear-how do you? Charming creature! [each feature! 'What shape! what bloom what spirit in 'You flatter me-'pon honour, No-You [adieu!'

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My friend my dear-fincerely yours-But when at Routs, the dear Friends change their toneffpeak of foren Ladies, not our own. Will you permit, good Sirs, thefe gloomy folk,

To give all Tragedy without one joke? They

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FOREIGN

FOREIGN TRANSACTION S.

UPON the news of the fignature

and ratification of the preliminary articles between Great-Britain, France, and Spain, including Portugal, being received at Lisbon, a cessation of hoftilities between the refpective armies in that kingdom was immediately agreed on and published. Since which, his moft Faithful majesty has declared, that in gratitude to the English nation, for their speedy affiftance, and gallant behaviour, in his defence, he will grant more indulgence and countenance to the British trade, and treat the fubjects of Great Britain and Ireland with favour above all other nations.

Thus peace feems not only to be firmly eftablished in the South; but there is great likelihood of its speedily prevailing like wife in the North, as appears by the latest advices from different parts of Germany.

The princes and ftates of the empire, we are informed, have refolved not only to recal their contingents, but also to embrace a perfect neutrality in the difputes between the courts of Vienna and Berlin. The bishop of Bambfberg and Wurtzburg has ugned a neutrality; and in confequence thereof, hath withdrawn his troops from the army of the empire.

Some accounts pofitively affert, that the negotiation between the king of Pruffia and the Empress queen, under the mediation of the Emprefs of Russia, is very far advanced; and that the preliminary articles refpecting Austria and Pruffia, are already figned; but that those which relate to Saxony, meet with fome difficulty. That a treaty is in great forwardness between the above-named powers is highly probable, because the Auftrian regiments that were marching from the army of the empire to the Lower Rhine, and were within five leagues of Frankfort, have received orders to halt.

Other accounts fpeak with fome doubt

of the fuccefs of the treaties between the

courts of Vienna and Berlin. A little time will discover the final iffve of these negotiations. It is certain, however, that the king of Pruffia does not neglect the neceffary preparations for taking the field early, if there fhould be occafion. The fame measures are taken by the court of Vienna; letters from whence fay, that if the fuccefs of the next campaign corresponds to the vigour of the preparations for it, the king of Pruffia may poffibly be compelled to make some abatement in his claims. Thefe letters conclude with the following anecdote.

In the year 1758, while the king of Pruffia was befieging Olmutz, the French ambaffador, alarmed at the probable confequences of that king's fuccefs, was defirous of perfuading the empress queen to think of fome terms of accommodation. He ventured to ask her, whether, in cafe of bad fortune, the would wait for her victorious enemy at Vienna, and stand a fiege in her capital? No, Sir, (faid the princess) when he advances to Vienna, I will retreat to Presburg. And what, madam, replied the ambaffador, if Vienna fhould not be able to stop the conqueror in his progrefs, you will hardly throw yourself into the arms of the Turk. That I will never do, anfwered the emprefs, I will collect my faithful Hungarians, and perhaps I may give battle to the king be fore Presburg: fhould I be defeated, I will write a letter to him, in which I will let him know that our differences are inexpiable; that therefore I will meet him, at a place to be named, in my post-chaife, with a brace of piftols; that we will draw up near to each other, and he fhall then perceive, that I have a courage above my fortune, and a refolution fuperior to my fex.

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