Of wifeft Philofophers, wifeft was he, Who, attentive to eafe, let his mind still be free.

The Prince, Peer, or Peafant, to him were the fame,

For pleas'd, he was pleafing wherever he

caine,

But ftill turn'd his back on contention and Atrife,

Refolving to live all the days of his life!

A friend to mankind, all mankind was his friend,

And the peace of his mind was his ultimate end;

He found fault with none, if none found • fault with him;'

If his friend had a humour, he humour'd his whin;

If wine was the word, he bumper'd ', his glafs

If love was the topic, he toasted his lafs, But ftill torn'd his back on contention and ftrife,

Refolving to live all the days of his life.
If Council difputed, if Council agreed,
He found fault with neither-for this was
his creed ;

That let them be guided by foily, or fenfe, Twould be femper eadem an hundred years hence.

He thought it was unfocial to be malecon

What with manning our thips and pro

tecting our fhore,

You cannot have lovers, as once, by the score.

If you wish to be married, your pride must come down,

What a fimile can procure do not lose by a frown.

The time it has been, it will ne'er be again, They were pleafed with my fing-fong; I When a legion of lovers I had in my train ; laugh'd at them all,

For one was too fhort, and another too tal,

Or too plump, or too flender, too young or too old,

And this was too bashful, and that was too bold.

All you who're in bloom and who Hymen implore,

Since love may not wait till the wars are all o'er,

Refemble the willow, be gentle and bend. Take pains for a lover, as you wou'd for a friend;

Look once at his perfon, but twice at his mind,

Take him foon at his word, tho' you bluth, yet be kind.

Expect not a croud of admirers to fee, 7 Rich, handfome, and courtly, and all they should be;

The times are fo bad, and so chang'd is our lot,

That a man that's worth having is hard to be got;

Chufe quick, or you'll rue it the rest of your lives,

You may flourish as toafts, but you'll never be wives.

The CATCH and GLEE, As performing at VAUXHALL Gardens, Set to Mufic by Mr. BARTHELEMON. APRIL SUN-SHINE.-GLEE.

our lives.

A favourite SONG, fung by Mrs. WRIGHTEN.,

Compofed by Mr. Hook..

IF you're not too proud for a word of advice In your choice of a hutband, girls, be not too nice.

HIV RING Winter now is gone, Smiling Spring comes swiftly on, Welcome then to new delights, Charming all the eye can see, Genial days, and chearful nights; Hark! for all is melody: Every bush, and field, and grove, Calls to joy, and wakes to love.

Sketch

TIN

INA, anciently Tinos, is one of thofe iflands which compofe the Cyclades, fituated to the fouth of St. Andro, and to the weft of Nicaria; and is feventeen miles in length, and eight in breadth. The riches of this ifland confift in filk, of which they produce 16,000 pounds every year. They make exceeding good filk tockings there, but nothing can compare with the filk gloves knit here for the Ladies. The fortrefs of Tinos ftands upon a rock, and the town adjoining contains a bout soo houfes. The Proveditor's palace is a poor building, and the Jefuits church is too fmall for the audience. There is a Bishop's fce of the Latin church, and the Greeks have 200 papas or priests. The Island belongs to the Venetians, who maintain no regular troops on it, but who upon occafion can raife 5000 men. St. Nicolo, the principal town, ftands in 37 deg. 32 min. north lat. and 25 deg. 45 min. east longitude.

The eafy labour in which the maid- fervants of the island of Tina are employed allows them to preferve all their perfonal attractions. Their principal objects of attention are the nourishing of filk-worms, or winding the filk that they produce. There prevails here a general attention to neatnefs, that is very pleasing to a travel

ler, because it is a certain evidence of profperity; and fhews the facility with which they can procure the neceffaries of life.. The happy citizen in the United Provinces declares his riches by the plain fimplicity of his appearance; while the fubjects of France, Spain, and Italy, conceal their mifery under tattered lace. The inhabitants of Tina find themselves fufficiently eafy and fatisfied, without being reduced to the defire of appearing gaudy in their apparel.

The love of their country is predominant throughout all the Grecian iflands, but is no-where more confpicuous than a mong the natives of Tina. Great num bers of fervants, born in this island, are to be found all over the Levant, who are diftinguished by their drefs, their good underftanding, and by their fidelity; but who never lofe fight of a defire to return to their own country, to enjoy with freedom the acquifitions of their industry. The patriotifm of the Tiniotes has already been remarked by a French traveller, M. Guys, who refided long in Greece, and who, in his Voyage Litteraire de la Grèce,' has drawn an interefting parallel between the ancient and modern inhabitants of that country.

HOUSE OF COMMON S. Wednesday, May 24. The House refolved itself into a Committee of ways and means; when

Lord North, instead of the tax on coals which he had at firft intended to impofe, moved that a duty of fix fhillings per barrel be laid on all fweets, or fweet wines made for fale. This duty he estimated at 9,875l. The next object of taxation he propofed was arch and hair powder. Thefe two commodities had not been taxed fince the reign of Queen Anne, and therefore might be deemed very proper objects of taxation. In the 10th year of that Queen, a duty of id. per pound was laid on ftarch and hair powder; and in the 12th year of her reign the duty was raised to 2d. a pound on each. He proposed for the prefent to lay on an additional penny,

making the whole of the old and new duty amount to 3d. per pound. The produce of the old duty ftands at prefent at 38,3431. to which one half being added, the new would produce exactly 19,1711. 10s. a year. The new taxes were agreed to without a divifion.

Friday, May 26.

Sir Herbert Mackworth moved for a Committee of the whole Houfe to confider of fome means to man the navy without preffing.

Mr. Brett oppofed the motion on this ground, that as the Hon. Baronet in all probability intended to recommend to the Committee the plan drawn up by Mr. Green, who had already petitioned the Houfe on that fubject, the plan could be of no fervice to the public thefe fix years to come,

Sir George Savile ridiculed the ground of the honourable Member's oppofition: it appeared to him rather fingular, that a Gentleman thould oppofe a very good plan, merely because fome time mult elapfe be fore it could be brought to fuch maturity, as to render it of fervice to the public. The motion might be productive of much good; the abufes attending the imprefs fervice called loudly for fome redrefs; and any plan that could abolish a service both odious and oppreffive, without cramping the navy, fhould meet with his fupport.

Mr. Martin and Mr. Turner (poke in favour of the motion, and warmly against the practice of preffing.

Mr. Huffey likewife fupported the motion. He faid that the practice of preffing had driven our feamen out of the king dom, and perhaps, while it deprived us of their fervices, it made them our enemies, by making them serve on board the fhips of France, Spain, and America. That they were driven from the fervice, he faid, appeared clearly from the return made fome time fince to a motion of his for a lift of the men borne and muffered in his Majelly's fhips of war, in which he was forry to fee a very great number of foreign

His Majetty relying on the experienced zeal and affection of his faithful Commons, and confidering that in this critical conjuncture emergencies may arife which may be of the utmost importance, and be attended with the most dangerous confequences, if proper means fhould not be immediately applied to prevent or defeat them, is defirous that this House will enable him to defray any extraordinary expences incurred or to be incurrod on account of military or ordnance fervices for the year 1780, and to take all fuch meafures as the exigency of affairs may require.' G. R. The meffage was read by Mr. Speaker, the Members being uncovered.

Lord North moved, That this message

Tuelday, June 6.

Mr. Buller moved four refolutions to the following effect:

I. That it is a high and dangerous breach of the privilege of Parliament to infult, interrupt, or attack the Members coming to attend their duty in that House.

II. That a Committee be appointed to enquire into the outrages committed in the late tumults, and to discover the authors, promoters, and abettors thereof.

III. That an humble addrefs be prefented to his Majefty, praying that he would be graciously pleased to direct his Attorney-general to commence and carry on profecutions againft fuch perfons as were in custody, charged with destroying the property and breaking into the houses and chapels of foreign Ministers and others.

IV. That his Majefty would be gra ciously pleafed to caufe compensation to be made to those foreign Ministers and others, whole property had been injured in the faid riots, and to affure his Majesty, that the Houfe of Commons would make pro vifion for the fame.

Thefe feveral motions met with the ap probation of the House, and were carried without a divifion, and they adjourned to the 19th.

Monday, June 19.

His Majelty went in the ufual state to the House of Peers, and gave the royal affent to the Levant trade bill, the indemnity bill, the New-York export bill, the