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In the entry this author “lays it down a a general propofition, That a perfecutin intolerant fpirit, is by no means the geniu of the people of this country. Of this w have the most fatisfying evidence from fac itfelf. For we not only allow all the dif ferent fects of Proteftants the free exercife o their religion; but we allow even Jews an Pagans, each of them to call upon his ow God: and even Papifts themselves, who ar the very perfons in question, have met with no moleftation from us, for upwards of thirty years; and had not, indeed, th fmalleft reafon to apprehend it. If, there fore, perfons of this religion be put upon worfe footing than others; if they be regard ed with an eye of jealousy, and ftill kep under the flackies of reftraining ftatutes this ought, in all reafon and juftice, to b afcribed, not to a fpirit of intolerance an perfecution, but to fomething in the ver principles which they hold, which mak fuch restrictions neceflary for the publ fafety."

"Another pofition [continues he ] is, th the subject we are now confidering, whe viewed in its proper light, will be found ne to relate to religious toleration at all. I sup pofe no perfon will deny, that Papists has in fact been tolerated in this country for great while paft: but then it will be fair. that they have enjoyed this privilege only t connivance, and that still they can claim r legal protection. Indeed, it must be a knowledged, that there is a very fevere st tute which continues to hang over the hear of Papifts in this country; a ftatute whi nothing but the neceflity of the times, a the remembrance of their unequalled crue ties and dangerous machinations, could ha ever enacted. But is it not an avow principle of our law, That a ftatute, eith in whole, or in part, which has feldom never been put in execution, lofes its for merely for want of exercife? This is a d cumflance which I reckon one of the mi valuable privileges which British fubjects this part of the united kingdoms enjoy One of our correfpondents gave reafo [40.516.] for thinking differently on fubject.

As circumftances are now fo greatly tered, [fays our author afterwards), I co fefs I am one of those who should ha heartily confented to the repeal of that pa of the law which fubjects them to penalt on account of the mere exercife of the worship, had it not been too eviden that this was neither the whole, nor moft important part, of the relief whic was intended to be given them."— in th our author agrees with one of our fpondents, who propofed that fuch a hould be framed and promoted. L40. 593

EPISTLE from the Hon. CHARLES Fox,
partridge-feasting, to the Hon. JOHN TOWN-
SHEND, cruifing.

[Writen by Mr Tickell, author of Anticipation.]
Hile you, dear TOWNSHEND, o'er the
WHE
billows ride,

Malve in front, and Hanger by thy fide,
Me delights the woods and wilds to court,
For ruftic feats and unambitious sport.-

At that dim hour when fading lamps expire, When the last lingering clubs to bed retire, Irife!-how should I then thy feelings fhock, Undav'd, unpowder'd, in my shooting-frock! What frock! thou crieft-Ill tell thee-the old brown;

Trimm'd to a jacket, with the skirts cut down. Thou laugh';-I know thou doft; - but check that fneer;

What tho' no fashion'd sportsman I appear, Yet hence thy CHARLES's voice gains thriller force:

Ah! Jack, if Dunning fhot, he'd not be hoarfe.
Nor deem e'en here the cares of state forgot,
I wad with Gazettes ev'ry fecond fhot:
Alman's bold fheets the intervals fupply;
And till, methinks, his charges farthest fly.
Off too, while all around my pointers stray,'
With patriot names I chear them on the way;
No fervile ministerial runners they!
Not Ranger then, but Washington I cry :
Hey on! Paal Jones, re-echoes to the sky:
Tobo! old Franklin,-Silas Deane, take heed!
Chear'd with the found, o'er hills and dales
they speed:

Tlone, to whofe quick fenfe and practis'd
active followers yield a hafty will, [fkill,
Touch'd by the scent the paffing gales convey,
With fartled vigilance prefumes the prey:
The refi a difciplin'd fubfervience keep;

ah where he runs, and as he crouches creep: length the hostile league one point avow: Now places, places!-order, order, now!

Bury! let me, (I cry), for party's fake, Teach thee where beft to aim-what ground

to take."

And fee, a young bird rifes, weak and flow:
At him, Sir Charles!"-He fires, and lays
him low.-

Star'd at the found, up the full covey fprings;
Erd at random fires, and only wings.
Not fo thy CHARLES; intent with half-clos'd
fight,

Carious I watch their veteran leader's flight,
At him I aim, the covey's head and guide;
Ife;-but ah! too plainly on one fide:

[Few poems that we have lately met with be afforded us more pleasure than the little epifle which is now before us. It is not only terfe and epast, but replete, alfo, with a kind of pleafantry ich is, in fome degree, peculiar to itself; a plea fantry unembittered by the gall of party or perfonal e. It is very rarely that true humour and good e fo happily blended. Month. Rev.]

Again I try, like rifing to explain,
A double barrel's force; but try in vain;
Against myself the hated tube recoils,
Nor gains one feather to requite my toils.
And move a previous question in the skies,
But if too foon the startled covey rise,
My faithful groom quick marks them as they
fpring,

And counts their nofes undeceiv'd as Byng;
To their old beaten ground the covey's gone;
Whether in clofe array, and nemine con.
Or, fcattering wild, in petty parties fall,
Some to pair off, and fome to wait a call.

The latent emblem of a nobler cause.
Thus from each kindred image fancy draws
I think of Meredith, and profelytes;
If chance a ftray, lone bird my course invites,
Mean mangled game not for itself I prize;
Vengeance and Pallifer to mem'r rife
One loves too narrow, one too wide a field;
Some fenatorial type ev'n Pointers yield;
As Hartley flow, or uncontroul'd as Burke.
This creeps below, that fprings above his work,'
With rav'nous ardour fome devour the prey;
O gentle Sawbridge, lafh fuch fiends away!
Others, with puzzling zeal, fmall objects mark;
Judicious Luttrell, bid them ware a lark!-

But come, dear JACK, all martial as thou With fpruce cockade, heroically smart, [art, Come, and once more together let us greet The long loft pleafures of St James's Street. Too long wer't thou at anchor-at Spithead ! Enough o'er ftubbles have I deign'd to tread;

Come, happy friend!-to hail thy wish'd re

turn,

ftand?

Ev'n Drapier checks the fentimental figh,
And Smith, without an oath, fufpends the dye.
That night, to festive wit and friendship due,
That night thy CHARLES's board fhall wel-

come you.

Sallads, that thame ragouts, fhall woo thy tafte;
Deep thalt thou delve in Weltjie's motley pafte;
Derby fhall lend, if not his plate, his cooks,
And, know, I've bought the best Champaigne
from Brooks;

From liberal Brooks, whofe fpeculative skill
Is hafty credit, and a diftant bill;
Who, nurs'd in clubs, difdains a vulgar trade,
Exults to truft, and blushes to be paid!

On that aufpicious night, fupremely grac'd
With chofen guefts, the pride of liberal taste,
Not in contentious heat, nor mad'ning strife,
Not with the bufy ills, nor cares of life,
We'll waste the fleeting hours; far happier
themes

Shall claim each thought, and chase Ambition's dreams.

Each Beauty that fublimity can boast,
He beft fhall tell, who ftill unites them moft.
Of wit, of taste, of fancy we'll debate;
Jf Sheridan for once is not too late:
But fearce a thought to minifters we'll spare,
Unless on Polish politics with Hare:
Good natur'd Devon! oft thall then appear
The cool complacence of thy friendly fneer:
Oft hall Fitzpatrick's wit, and Stanhope's cafe,
And Burgoyne's manly fenfe unite to please.
And while each guest attends our varied feats
Of feattering covies and retreating fleets,
Me fhall they wish fome better fport to gain,
And thee more glory-from the next cam-
paign.

[This company and entertainment bear fuch evident marks of taste and good judgement, that we Should efteem ourselves happy in having a card of invitation to be of the party. Month. Rev.]

This gentleman was bred to phyfic, went abroad early in life, and fettled in the island of Antigua, where he made a genteel fortune, with a fair chara&er. He returned to his native country about eight years ago, and was univerfally esteemed in the neighbourhood where he lived. He had read a great deal, and with an excellent judgement; which, with bis liberal manners, and open frankness of difpofition, made his converfation equally entertaining and infiructive. No man was happier in the fociety of his friends; no man entertained with a better grace, or greater good-will. While abroad, the humanity of his temper foftened the horrors of slavery; after his return to Scotland, the fame difpofition of mind made his connections and dependents happy. He died the 17th of February 1780, in the 62d year of his age.

A man who, living, never made a foe, [flow Whofe heart could feel, and liberal hand b A man with judgement, taste, and knowledg bleft,

The steady, gen'rous friend, through life con fest.

He liv'd refpected: What would Virtue mor
In life's dull paffage to her native fhore?
Though dead, he lives, while those who kne
him live;

'Tis all the foul-affected friend can give!
If focial virtue to thy foul be dear,
Paufe, Reader, and indulge the fwelling tea
If virtue glows not in thy breaft, pass on,
This verfe is cold, and lifelefs, as the ftone;
Till happier feelings touch thy heart, retire;-
The Mufe may fan them, but the Gods in
spire.

What art thou, life? a vapour quickly gond Unknown the track where late it feebly fhone A flower, juft opening to the folar ray, Scarce blown ere fhrunk; the pageant of a day A dream, a fhadow!- yet in Wifdom's eye, Th'important NOW, that fits us for the sky! O, fource of light and life! at peace with the Bleft is the hour that fets the pris'ner free!

Abbot's Inch, Feb. 22. 1780.

F. D.

VERSES written by the Countess dowager DERWENT WATER, at the age of twent five, foon after her husband was beheaded Tower-hill, Feb. 24. 1715-16.

Depriv'd my for on

Epriv'd of my Radcliffe I'll rove,

Where death fhall extinguish my love;
For Radcliffe will never return.
Undaunted my hero appear'd,

Where Virtue her banners difplay'd, Where Freedom's mild standard was rear'd He follow'd, by threats undismay'd. But Virtue and Freedom, alas!

Are perifh'd, and Derwent's no more: Fell tyranny rules in their place,

And gluts his curs'd maw with their gore "O fpare my lov'd Derwent," I said,

As low to the tyrant I fell, And proftrate before him was laid, [dwell' "And may Heaven ftill fmile where yo But vain the fad tale of my woe; Nor pray'rs, nor deep fighs, could fucceed His bofom no mercy did know, [bleed "Be gone"-he faid, "Derwent mi My Derwent, alas! was my all,

How hard then that all to refign! To live without Derwent in thrall! And yet that fore task must be mine. How oft thro' the grove do Iftray,

And wonder you do not appear! How oft does your lifping fon fay, "I wish my lov'd father was here!" [The note is at the bottom of next column.]

Whi

When wak'd from my frenzy I cry,
"O Heav'ns! is Derwent no more?
Transport me, ye gods, to his sky,
Or elfe my fond husband restore!"

L

FRIENDSHIP: An Ode.

Ike the foft gladdening dawn of light, Succeflive to the gloom of night, Is Friendship's ray ferene; When on the fickly couch I lie, No more my bofom heaves the figh, Should Friendship cheer the scene. 'Tis Friendship gives the joys fincere, Delights to wipe the falling tear,

To footh the aching breaft; Our griefs a focial folace find,

'Tis Friendship heals the wounded mind, It bleffes, and is blest.

On life's deceitful ftream we fail;
Whene'er we meet a profperous gale
The flattering tribe attend;
On whom, fhould adverse blafts arife,
Or threatening storms portend the skies,
'Tis folly to depend.

Let us, Lyfander, ever be
laviolate in amity,

Still let its tranfports glow. How few, like you, poffefs a mind, Where the foft virtues are combin'd, That feel another's woe? ADVICE to a LOVER. By Dr YALDEN.

FOR many un fucceffiy

OR many unfuccessful years,

Battering them often with my tears;
I figh'd, but durft not pray.
No proftrate wretch, before the shrine
Of fome lov'd faint above,
E'er thought his goddess more divine.
Or paid more awful love.
Still the difdainful nymph look'd down
With coy infulting pride;
Receiv'd my paffion with a frown,
Or turned her head afide.
Then Cupid whisper'd in my ear,
"Ufe more prevailing charms;
You modeft whining fool, draw near,
And clafp her in your arms.
With eager kiffes tempt the maid
From Cynthia's feet depart;
The lips he brifkly must invade,
That would poffefs the heart.'
With that I fhook off all the flave,
My better fortunes tried ;
When Cynthia in a moment gave
What the for years denied.

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HISTORICAL AFFAIRS. ENGLAN D. [52.]

In the gazette of Feb. 12. in an article dated Admiralty-office, Feb. 12. we have a letter from Adm. Sir George Brydges Rodney, brought by Capt. Thompson, of the America, who arrived the night before, viz.

"Sandwich, at fea, Jan. 9. 1780, lat. 41. 44. long. 14. 25. Cape Finifterre E. N. E, 76 leagues. YESTERDAY, at day-light, the fquadron of his Majefty's fhips under my command defcried twenty-two fail in the north-east quarter: we immediately gave chace, and in a few hours the whole were taken.

They prove to be a Spanish convoy which failed from St Sebaftian's the ift of January, and were under the protection of feven fhips and veffels of war belonging to the Royal company of Caraccas, viz.

The Guipufcoano, of 64 guns and 550 men. The San Carlos, of 32 guns and 200 men. The San Rafael, of 30 guns and 155 men. The Santa Terefa, of 28 guns and 150 men. The San Bruno, of 26 guns and 140 men. The Corbetta San Fermin, of 16 guns and

60 men.

The San Vicente, of ro guns and 40 men.

Part of the convoy was loaded with naval ftores and provifions for the Spanifh fhips of war at Cadiz; the reft with bale goods belonging to the Royal company.

Thofe loaded with naval ftores and bale goods I fhall immediately dispatch for England, under the convoy of his Majefty's fhips the America and Pearl; thofe loaded with provifions I fhall carry to Gibraltar: for which place I am now fteering; and have not a doubt, but the fervice I am fent upon there will be fpeedily effected.

As I thought it highly neceffary to fend a 64 gun fhip to protect fo valuable a convoy, I have commiffioned, officered, and manned, the Spanish fhip of war of the fame rate, and named her the Prince William, in refpect to his R. Highness, in whose presence fhe had the honour to be taken. She has been launched only fix months, is in every respect completely fitted for war, and much larger than the Bienfaisant, Capt. Macbride, to whom fhe ftruck.

I beg leave to congratulate their Lordships on this event, which muft greatly

diftref's

diftrefs the enemy, who I am well informed are in much want of provifions and naval ftores.

I have the honour to be, &c.

G. B. RODNEY."

Having received repeated intelligence of a Spanish fquadron, faid to confift of fourteen fail of the line, cruifing off Cape St. Vincent, I gave notice to all the captains, upon my approaching the faid Cape, to prepare for battle; and having paffed it on the 16th in the morning with the whole convoy at one p. m. the Cape then bearing N. four leagues, the Bedford made the fignal for feeing a fleet in the S. E. quarter. I immediately made a fignal for the line of battle abreaft, and bore down upon them but before that could be well effected, I perceived the enemy were endeavouring to form a line of battle ahead upon the ftarboard tack; and as the day was far advanced, and unwilling to delay the action, at two p. m. I hauled down the fignal for the line of battle abreaft, and made the fignal for a general chace, to engage as the fhips came up by rotation, and to take the lee-gage, in order to prevent the enemy's retreat into their own ports.

At four p. m. perceiving the headmoft fhips very near the enemy, I made the general fignal to engage and clofe. In a few minutes the four headmoft fhips began the action; which was returned with great brifknefs by the enemy. At forty minutes paft four, one of the enemy's line-of-battle fhips blew up with a dreadfal explosion; every perfon perished. At fix p. m. one of the Spanifh fhips ftruck. The action and purfuit continued with a conftant fire till two o'clock in the morning, at which time the Monarca, the headmoft of all the enemy's fhips, having ftruck to the Sandwich, after receiving one broadfide, and all firing having ceafed, I made the fignal and brought to.

The weather during the night was at times very tempeftuous, with a great sea, which rendered it difficult to take poffef

fion of, and fhift the prifoners of those fhips that had surrendered to his Majefty's arms. It continued very bad weather the next day, when the Royal George, Prince George, Sandwich, and feveral other fhips, were in great danger, and under the neceffity of making fail to avoid the fhoals of St Lucar; nor did they get into deep water till the next morning; when, having joined the convoy, and made Cape Spartel, I difpatched two jefty's conful with our fuccefs, that Great frigates to Tangier, to acquaint his MaBritain was again mistress of the straits; and defiring him to haften a supply of fresh provifions for the garrison. At funfet we entered the Gut.

The gallant behaviour of the admirals, captains, officers, and men, I had the honour to command, was remarkably confpicuous: They feemed actuated with the fame fpirit, and were anxiously eager to exert themselves with the utmoft zeal to ferve his Majefty, and to humble the pride of his enemies.

I may venture to affirm, though the enemy made a gallant defence, that had the weather proved but even moderate, or had the action happened in the day, not one of their fquadron had escaped.

Inclosed I fend a lift of the Spanish squadron, as likewise of his Majefty's fhips, with the damage they received.

I have the honour to be, &c.

GEO. BRYDGES RODNEY."

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A lift of the Spanish fleet under the command of
Phoenix,-Don Juan de Langara Admiral,
Don Juan de Langara.
Don Francifco Melgarefo captain,
guns, 700 men, taken and brought into
Gibraltar.
San Augustin,-Don Vizente Dos command-
er, 70 guns, 600 men, escaped.
San Genaro,-Don Felix Terada

com

mander, 70 guns, 600 men, escaped. San Jufto,-Don Jofef commander, 70 guns, 600 men, efcaped, very much damaged. San Larenzo,-Don Juan de Araoz commander, 70 guns, 600 men, efcaped, very much damaged.

San Julian,-Marques de Medina commander, 70 guns, 600 men, taken, the officers fhifted, and a lieutenant with 70 feamen put on board, afterwards went on fhore. San Eugenio,-Don Antonio Dumonte commander, 70 guns, 600 men, taken, the officers fhifted, but drove afhore on the breakers, and loft. Monarca,-Don Antonio Oyarvide commander, 70 guns, 600 men, taken, and brought into Gibraltar.

Princeffa,