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Such was Orlando's fate, mifguided youth! An early recreant from the paths of truth: Bleft with the charms of figure and of mind, He feem'd by nature form'd to grace man

kind;

But loft to virtuous fenfe of honeft fame, He liv'd the fcandal of his race and name : Too high to curb, for counfel over nice, He took as impudence a friend's advice, Shunn'd all, his conduct who durft discommend,

And thought, who flatter'd moß, his greatest friend:

Long riot reign'd with wild defpotic fway, And fatal banquets kill'd the tedious day; Debauch'd and ruin'd in a spendthrift's ftate, He feels, unhappy wretch, a fpendthrift's

fate!

Praise lately wont to charm his lift'ning ear,
Now yields to filence and the taunting fneer;
Late fam'd as patron for a generous board,
He feeks in turn a table and a Lord:
One only friend of all the num'rous clan,
One only friend was found, a virtuous man,
Philander call'd; a ferious folid youth,
Tho' born to grandeur, bred in honest truth;
With anguish oft Orlando's faults he'd fcan,
Oft blame his vices, yet carefs the man:
But now no more the high fwol'n front ap-
pear'd,

No more the crew of midnight drunkards fcar'd;

Alone, deferted like the ftricken deer, Penfive he trod the gloomy wilds of care: Curft the falfe minions of his thining hour, And mourn'd his ruin'd name and wealthy power.

Him fought Philander, and with gen'rous love,

Strove ev'ry manly fentiment to move;
To roufe his foul to thirft of virtuous fame,
By fenfe of honour loft, and mangled name;
And happy victor in the noble ftrife,
Snatch'd him from fad defpair to joyous life!
No more to revel where mean riots reign,
Mo more companion to the loofe and vain,
But free to rove the focial fcenes among,
Where fober virtue points the thoughtful
throng;

Where peace, content, and joy benignant fimile,

Each rough care foften, each wild woe be

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guile.

Now Pleasure tempts with treach'rous smiles
Her dupes unpractis'd in her wiles;
Where'er we turn our wondring eyes
A thousand beauteous profpects rife;
The fields adorn'd with flow'rs look gay,
And smooth and pleasant feems our way
The joyous birds in every grove
Tune their melodious throats to love;
A chearful fmile all nature wears,
And in her fairest robes appears:
But ah not long thefe pleafures last,
Half of our journey foon is paft;
Beneath the fun's meridian heat
Fatigu'd we faintly toil and fweat :
Thro' mazy ways, and gulphs profound
We pafs with dangers compafs'd round;
On flipp'ry paths uncertain tread;
And adverfe ftorms our courfe impede.
Now rifing mitts obfcure our way,
And erring, we at random ftray.
Anon, on fchemes of wealth intent
We climb Ambition's steep afcent,
Above our fellow-trav'llers rise,
And view them with difdainful eyes.
Approaching near our journey's end
Beneath a weight of cares we bend,
With tott'ring steps creep flowly on,
(Our former ftrength and vigour gone)
No longer warbling birds delight
The ear, or verdant plains the fight,
Groves please no more, unheeded now
Thro' flow'ry vales the rivers flow:
Of life the tiresome journey past,
We drop into the tomb at last;
Great inn where all our forrows ceafe,
And kings with peasants reft in peace.
BARROW.

S. PG.

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THE JOURNEY OF LIFE.

IFE is a journey from the womb Thro' various perils to the tomb; With trifles pleas'd, in harmless play, We pafs our morning hours away: Of Science next th' afcent fublime With painful fteps we ftrive to climb; A guide preceding points the way Whom with reluctance we obey, VOL. II, No. 11.

ON

ETERNITY.

HOULD the whole art of growing num bers ftand,

Stars, thoughts, leaves, einmets, minutes, drops, and fand;

All matter, water, earth, fire, air and all
Paft, prefent, future, into atoms fall.
And all mankind that was, is, and to come,
Angels, all creatures join to make the fum,
And count from the creation to the doon,
Ages,worlds,thoufands, my riads millionize
Fatigue conception; 'twill not all comprife
Thee, O Eternity I--Then, f. lepd, be wife.
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ART.I. The Cateckift; or, An Inquiry into the Doctrine of the Scriptures, concerning the only True God and Object of relig ous Worship. By Theophilus L.ndjey, A. M.

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HIS modern philofopher has carefully flected the plain texts of fcripture, and with much ingenuity accommodated thofe that are figurative to his own preadopted notions. There is no reasoning with fuch perfons, who take it for granted that all men are fools but themselves. Mr. Lindsey, with a conceited air of fuperiority," affirms, that the antient doctrine of the human and divine natures in Chrift, is a mere fuppofition that has no countenance whatever in the facred writings. So much for Mr. Lindfey's modefty. Nor can we say much in favour either of the candour pr charity of that author, who would have his readers believe upon the credit of his own pfe dixit, "That the doctrine of Chrift being poffeffed of two natures, is the fiction of ingenious men, determined at all events to believe Chrift to be a different being from what he really was, and uniformly declared himself to be; by which they folve fuch difficulties of fcripture as they camot otherwife get over, and endeavour to prove him to be the moft high God, in fpite of his own most exprefs and conftant declarations to the contrary." How exceeding rational, liberal, and candid, fuch affertion! Do they not plainly difcover a debility of mind? Alas! poor Lindfey! We return thee that pity, which, though unfolicited, you beftow on others!

ART. II. The Nature and Circumstances of the Demoniacks in the Gopels, flated and methodized, and confidered in federal Particulars. By Thomas Barker.

They who believe the exiflence of good and evil angels, are of opinion, that the Demoniacks mentioned in the gospels, were poffefed and actuated by the latter: but others, with whom an opinion being popuTar, is a fufficient reafon of its abfurdity, think, the Demoniacks were only what we call lunatics, or madmen, and by confequence deny the agency of fuperior powers. It did not belong to our Lord, fay they, as 7 a divine instructor to correct the phyfical efrors of the Jews, and therefore he ufed their popular language when speaking of the actions of the madmen. Among the numher of thefe we may fuppofe they reckoned

our Saviour himself, who is faid, accord ing to the vulgar phrafeology on the subject of Demoniacks, to have been tempted of the devil, i. e. to have been a madinan. Mr. Barker defends the common hypothefis; and having collected all the passages in the facred writings into one collective point of view, with remarks upon the fame, has asforded the ferious enquirer a fair opportunity of investigating the fubject fully with propriety and precifion.

ART. III. A Sermon preached at be Anniverfary Meeting of the Sons of the Clergy, in the Cathedral Church of St. Paul, on Thurfday May 16, 1783. By William Jones, A. M. F. R. S.

This warm advocate for the temporal rights of the clergy, particularly in the. matter of tithes, has very ably supported their claims. His ingenious, animated, and acute obfervations are well deferving the attention of all thofe, who would deprive the labourers in our Lord's vineyard of their due reward.

ART. IV. An Essay on the Immutability of Miral Truth. By Catharine Macauly Grabam, 8vo. 6:.

We would advife Mrs. Macauly not to leave a fecond time her republican walk of politics. She would do well to husband her little flock of reputation, which the will in our opinion certainly lofe, by wandering in the intricate labyrinth of metaphyfics, and vainly attempting subjects, to which her genius and education are by no means equal.

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It is very evident from his train of reafoning, and the authorities he quotes, that this is a fenfible, learned, and respectable author; but it has justly been observed," that all the fchemes of Prideaux, Burnet, Secker, and of this writer, will be defeated, if the livings in the gift of the bishops and laity are heaped upon thofe, whofe pretenfions folely depend on family or minifterial intereft, while learning and probity, are only commended-pitied-and left to harve in obscurity.”

CHRO.

GAZETTE INTELLIGENCE.

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St. James's, July 4.

HE king was this day pleafed to confer the honour of knighthood on John Collins, Efq; captain in his majesty's navy. Whitehall, July 5. The king has been pleafed to appoint William Campbell, Efq. to be one of the commiffioners in quality of a principal officer of his majesty's navy.

Whitehall, July 12. The king has been pleafed to grant to Thomas Stallard, of the city of London, and alfo of the Moor, in the county of Hereford, Efq. and his iffue (purfuant to the last will of Themas Pannoyre of the Moore aforefaid, Efq. his late uncle deceased) his royal licence and authority to take and ufe the furname of Pennoyre, in addition to that of Stallard; and alfo to order, that this his majefty's conceffion be registered in his college of arms.

The king has been pleafed to appoint the right Hon. James earl of Charlemont, Henry Grattan, Efq. and Charles Tottenham Loftus, Efq. to be of his majesty's most honourable privy council in the kingdom of

Areland.

Whitehall, July 15. Sunday night last lieutenant Foliot, of the Baracoota cutter, arrived with difpatches from his excellency Sir Roger Curtis, Knt. his majesty's ambaffador to the emperor of Morocco, dated Gibraltar, June 14, in which he gives an account that the former treaties of friendfhip and commerce had been renewed and, confirmed, and that additional articles, for the better regulation of the commerce between the two nations, were concluded and figned at Sallee on the 24th of May last.

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. Conftantinople, June 10.

THE

HE plague has begun to fpread in different quarters of this city, and fome accidents have happened in two of the villages fituated on the coaft of the Black Sea. This diforder has alfo broken out at Foglieri, or Foggio, in the bay of Smyrna, where the confuls furnish foul bills of health.

Hamburgh, June 24.

WE have accounts from the frontiers. of Poland, that the Cham of Crimea has voluntarily refigned the government of that country, under pretence that the Porte will not let him govern peaceably. Upon this declaration of the Cham, it is faid the Tartars wanted to proceed to the election of another chief, but the Ruffian general who commands in Crimea opposed

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it till he fhould have received an answer from his court relative to the abdication of the former Cham.

Schweidnitz, June 25. On the 22d of this month the county of Glatz was vifited with fo dreadful a ftorm that there was no diftinguishing it from an earthquake. The whole country was entirely overflowed by the violence of the rains, which like a deluge carried away all the bridges that have been built for thefe 250 years. The claps of thunder were fo violent, that feveral chimneys were thrown down, and walls fhattered. Whole villages alfo were swept away by the fury of the torrents. Several hundred perfons were drowned, and a great number of cattle loft. At Glatz, the falt and other magazines, with the barracks, were filled with water. Our advices from Bohemia are as melancholy, and contain a detail of feveral very unhappy accidents.

Paris, July 4. The general fubject of converfation here at prefent is, the approaching war between Ruffia and the Porte; but no one is able to determine whether the emperor will take part in it or not: on the other hand, by the pains our miniftry feem to take to accelerate the figning of the treaty of peace with England, it feems as if they had fomething great in view, and wifhed to be at liberty to purfue it.

Dublin, July 8. Some of the poor ma nufacturers of the liberty, who have long in filence borne the oppreffive hand of famine and indigence, in hopes of the ef fe&tual interference of the opulent in their behalf, at length roused to a degree of madnefs by their extreme fufferings, and abfolute defpair of relief, did, yesterday evening, commence cutting the muflins and nankeens, in the drefs of every person they met with. Their rage was directed folely against the fabrics, which, in part, occafion their misfortunes; the perfons of the wearers they held facred.

me to call you together again at an early per od; and I perfuade myfelf, from my uniform ex erienc: of your affection to me, and your zeal for the public good, that you will chearfully fubmit to a temporary inconvenience, for the permanent advantage of your country.

The confideration of the affairs of the East Indies will require to be refumed as early as poffible; and to be pursued with a ferious and unremitting attention.

"I expected to have had the fatisfaction of acquainting you, before the end of the feffion, that the terms of pacification were definitively fettled: but the complicated ftate of the business in difcuffion has unavoidably protracted the negociation. I have however every reafon to believe, from the difpofitions fhewn by the feveral powers concerned, that they are perfly well inclined to fuch a conclufion as may fecure the bleffings of peace, fo much and fo equally to be defired by all partics.

"Gentlemen of the houfe of commons. "I THANK you for the fupplies you have fo liberally granted for the public ervice; for facilitating my arrangements towards a feparate eftablishment for the prince of Wales; and for enabling me, without any new burthen on my people, to difcharge the debt which remained on my Civil lift.

"My Lords and Gentlemen,

"I EARNESTLY recommend to you an attention towards promoting among my people, in your several countries, that fpirit of order, regularity and induftry, which is the true fource of revenue and power in this nation; and without which, all regulations for the improvement of the one, or the increafe of the other, will have no effect."

After which the parliament was prorogued to the 9th day of September.

We have the pleafure to inform the public, from undoubted authority, that the Fox packet juft arrived, which failed from Bengal the 17th of February, and from St. Helena the 17th of May, brings the following intelligence:

Peace with the Marattas was ratified by the Minifters at Poona.

Hyder Ally died in December la; and Tippoo Saib had expreffed his wishes for peace.

The French fleet under Suffrein was upon the coaft; had taken the Coventry frigate and Blandford Indiaman; the latter returning from Madras in ballaft. The

Medea had re-taken the Chacer loop of war, proceeding from Trincomale, with difpatches from Mr. Buffy to Suff. ein.

Buffy was in very great diftrefs at Trincomale, and unable to proceed, his me dying daily of a dyfentery.

The Locko Indiaman, from China, was arrived at St. Helena with a prize; the remaining five China fhips were hourly expected at St. Helena.

The greatest harmony prevailed in the fupreme council at Calcutta; all party diffenfions were at an end, and a thorough reform had taken place in all the public offices. Mr. Haftings was perfectly recovered.

According to advices, from Vienna a teaty is negociating between the emperor and the kings of Pruffa, Denmark, and Sweden, whereby they ftipulate jointly to oppose the attempts of the Turkish armies to penetrate into the German dominions.

A letter from Hanover fays, that according to the preparations making by all the German princes in augmenting their armies, and collecting together ftores, &c. a continental war is thought to be near at hand.

A letter from Leghorn fays that they have learnt, by a vetfel arrived there from the coaft of Barbary, that the Dey of Algiers having advice that the Spaniards intend to pay him a vifit, is preparing to give them a warm reception; and that he intended the Spanish prifoners thould be fet in front of the works, for which purpofe they are brought to algiers from the internal parts of the country.

According to letters from Baftia, in the ifland of Corfica, the town of St. Fiorenzo was deftroyed, and a great number of the inhabitants have perifhed, by a most tremendous thunder ftorm.

Advices are received from Boston, and other parts of America, that thips are lading at every port with the feveral productions of that country for London, and other ports in England; and that it is generally believed that the chief part of their trade will be given to their mother country.

The laft accounts from New England coucur in admitting, that though the people there are uncommonly cruel in their pro ceedings against the American Loyalifts, yet the religious malignity with which the fectaries purfued those who adhered to the eftablished church was confiderably relaxed; the times, with refpect to toleration, growing more mild (fince the conclufion of the war) and happier profpects breaking forth. The church of England people are suffered

to

live more quietly; the churches are again opened, and divine fervice performed, wherever there are clergymen to officiate, many of whom are greatly ef teemed by the New-England congregations for their steady conduct in diligently attending to the duties of their callings, and

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preaching the gofpel unmixed with the politics of the day.

Among a variety of inftances of official bufinefs which are ftated in the tenth report of the commiffioners of accounts, that was on Thursday laft delivered to both houfes of parliament, is the following extraordinary fact, viz. "That there are one hundred and feventy millions of the public money outstanding and unaccounted for in the hands of fix perfons, whofe names are mentioned in the report."

It is the intention of minifters to appoint a Board of Commiffioners to enquire into the claims of the Loyalifts, and afcertain the real amount of their loffes, that the relief may be proportioned to their fufferings, and that the neceffary diftinctions may be made between real and affected grievances. This board is to confift of five members, and gertlemen of the Houfe of Commons are not to be excluded from it. They are alfo to have the whole bufinefs of the commercial fyftem between this country and America fubmitted to their care, that they may regulate and give effect to the new establishment, and prevent, as much as poffible, all appeals for the construction of acts to Weftminster-hall.

A fubfcription is going forward amongst fome men of large fortune, for raising the fum of 16,000l. to fit out a fhip for a voyage of fcience to the South Seas, and round the world. Some of the principal of the literati are engaged, in order that obfervations and experiments may be made in every branch of human knowledge. It is to include an attempt to reach the North Pole.

A party by land for the fake of obfervations are to crofs the whole continent of North America, to meet the hip at the port of Sir Francis Drake, to the North of California. Sir Jofeph Banks and Dr. Heberden are in the fubfcription, and Dr. Priestly is to make the voyage. Lord Shelburne offers to be at the expence of fending a naturalift by land from Petersburgh to Kamfchatfka, to meet the thip there alfo. A fettlement is to be made, and left at NewZealand, merely for the purpose of cultivating and making experiments on the New-Zealand hemp, and other curious plants, which may be examined by refiding two or three years there.

We are affured that the lord bishop of Cheffer, with the benevolence which has ever diftinguished his character, is indefatigable in his endeavours to refcue the negroes in our We India iflands from the abjeet, uncivilized, oppreffed, and immoral ftate, in which they have fo long been fuffered to remain. If there are any human beings in the world, who concentrate in themfelves every fpecies of mifery, they are furely that unhappy race, the African ne

groes, who are in general confidered, by their mafters, as mere machines to work with as having neither understandings to be cultivated, nor fouls to be faved! To the greater part of this clafs of our fellow ereatures not fo much as the mere ceremony of baptifm is adminiftered, and tcarce any enjoy fufficient leifure from their labour to preferve them in health, or to be informed of the duties of morality or religion

The efforts of the above amiable prelate, united with thofe of the venerable fociety for the propagation of the gofpel in foreign parts, it is to be hoped, will excite the attention of government to this important ob ject; as it highly becomes the wifdom of the provincial legiflatures to give fome countenance to the wretched Africans who groan under their power; and to enact, as the French government has long fince done, a code of laws for their protection, their fecurity, their encouragement, their improvement, and their converfion.

The number of flaves in the feveral Weft India islands now in our poffeffion, or to be restored to us by the late treaty of peace, amount to upwards of Four Hundred Thoufand!-Nineteen of whom out of twenty live without any one principle ei-, ther of natural or revealed religion, without the practice of any moral duty, except that of performing their daily task, and efcaping the fcourge that conftantly hangs over them.

On the 1ft inft. a court of aldermen was held at Guildhall, at which were prefent the lord mayor, recorder, and nineteen aldermen. Previous to which Mr. Wooldridge, late alderman of Bridge Ward, feated himfelf on the bench in his former fituation. When the bufinefs was commencing, the lord mayor informed Mr. Wooldridge, that he had, for just causes and complaints, been difplaced from his office, and therefore he must not attempt to remain on the bench without meeting difagreeable confequences.-Mr. Wooldridge continued in ftatu quo, and Mr. alderman Turner rofe to inform him, that unless he quietly withdrew, the dignity of the court, of which he was no longer a member, would be fupported, and he neceffarily must expect to be turned out by the peace officers. Mr. Wooldridge then peaceably quited the room, faying he should apply to the Court of King's Bench.

The 3d int. carl Mansfield gave judg ment in the Court of King's Bench, against Lord Portchester, in the long depending caufe between his lordship and Mr. Petre, refpecting the damages recovered in the actions for bribery at the general election at Cricklade.

By this determination, we understand,

Mr.