Her feeling heart, alas! did forely grieve; a tear : But love and duty call!-the wife must leave A tender mother, and a fifter dear! The fleet unmoor'd, before a profperous wind, A fteady courfe with fwelling canvass Maria's heart exulting hopes to find Short-fighted mortals! catch the prefent joy! 'Tis all that Heav'n permits you here to know ! Soon fhall mifchance your brighelt hopes deftroy, Nor truth, nor innocence, avert the blow. The tempeft howls !-the threat'ning billows rife !- The veffel drives before the whistling ftorm! Now down the deep-now up to Heav'n the flies tuous scenes, To where life knows not what affliction means; To where religion, peace, and comfort dwell; And chear with heart-felt rays my lonely cell; There, where no ruffling winds, no raging feas, Shock the calm Muse amidst her pensive ease, Each paffion fmooth, each mild affection mine, Mixt with each human grace, and each Aw'd by no terrors, with no cares perdivine, This life-my gentle paffage to the next. plex'd, Yet, if it please thee beft, thou Pow'r Supreme! My bark to drive thro' life's more rapid stream; Iflouring ftorms my deftin'd course attend, VERSES addreffed to a Gentleman and WHILST you, my friends, in sweet Alonzo goes on board-Oh! fave my W wife! And let her find a friendly refuge here! The boat dispatch'd receives the precious freight : Fickle dependence on the stormy fea! Angels of mercy, round the fair one wait! Oh! fave from terror and from danger free ! The helpless victim lifts her hands in vain; The little bark in vain attempts to brave The dreadful tumult of the raging main:And loft Maria floats upon the wave ! connubial ties, Taste the fublimeft joys below the skies; Invoking bleffings on your future years; * An old fervant of Mrs. Barrington's, There penfive fat, and ruminating o'er Each pleafing scene that pais'd in days of yore,' Where in fweet converse time was wing'd away, And all was jocund thro' the live-'ong day; Methought a rich extended plain I faw, Whilft founds harmonious vibrate on my Damon, at length, her gentle heart affails, Remote from thofe that on ambition wait, And Heav'n confer its choiceft gift-1 Whilft the fond pledges of their parents love Tranfport their fouls, their ev'ry hope il- Delighted, fain would I the scene renew; And fondly with them for my much- J. H, LIST of ALTERATIONS in both HOUSES OF PARLIAMENT, from December 31, 1779, to the recent Dissolution. HOUSE OF LORDS. Lady Prifcilla Burrel created Baronels Willoughby de Erosby. HOUSE of COMMONS. Robert Kingsmill, Efq; elected for Yarmouth, in the Isle of Wight, in room of J. Clarke F. Charteris, Efq; elected for Haddington, in room of Col. Maitland-dead. J. Henderfon, Efq; elected for Fifeshire, in room of Gen. Skene-election declared void. Sir Francis Rogers, Bart. elected for Plymouth, in room of Sir Cha. Hardy-dead. P, Wentworth, Efq; elected for Saltafli, in room of H. Strachey-elected for Bishop's- U TRIAL TRIAL of ABRAHAM DARNFORD, and WILLIAM NEWTON, at the Old Bailey. BRAHAM Darnford and William them, faying, that in a few days they a give their committed on the person of James Watts, Clerk to Meffrs. Smith, White, and Grey, bankers. Mr. Silvester was Countel for the profecution, and painted in pretty ftrong colours, the confpiracy of the prifoners to rob, if not alfo to murder, the Clerk. He lamented that religious fcruples fhould prevent the Clerk from taking an oath, and appearing to give evidence himfelf, ftill he trufted, that the law would not be robbed of its victims on that account, as there was evidence fufficient to convict the prisoners independent of the Clerk's. James Watts was called, it refufed to take an oath. Judge Buller reafoned with him a long time; but it was in vain that he obferved, that an affirmation and an oath were fubftantially the fame, both being appeals to God, and differing only in form. In vain he told the young man, that, laft fummer, five very refpectable Quakers had been induced, by this mode of reafoning, to take oaths before him in the Court of King's Bench: the young man modeftly replied, that be was Quaker; that, according to the principles of his faith, he could not take an oath of any kind; for the exprefs words of Chrift were, Swear not at all.' a The next perfon called was Southby, a Clerk in the fame houfe with Watts. Luckily he was not a Quaker, and was fworn. He proved that the prifoner, Darnford, had applied to him in the compting houfe, to request that he would call at No. 21, Water-lane, Blackfriars, on the 5th of Auguft, for the payment of a bill of 371. 10s. which would become due that day; his reafon for making this requeft was, he faid, that he was going into the country for a fhort time, during which the bill would become payable. He proved Jikewife, that, on the 5th of August in the morning, James Watts went out with a pocket-book, containing notes to the amount of 4000l.; he produced the pocket book, and fwore that it was the property of Meffrs. Smith, White, and Grey. It appeared, on the teltimony of other witneffes, that the prifoners had got the key of the houfe, No. 21, Water-lane, had examined the premifes, given half a guinea carneft, and taken the key with 3 about the house. The owner, not getting the key in return, defired Mrs. Boucher, who lives directly oppofite the houfe, to fend word as foon as the should fee any people go into it. Mrs. Boucher proved, that on the 5th of Auguft, about three quarters before nine o'clock, the faw the two prifoners go into the houfe, and at nine the faw another man come up to the door; he knocked, and was inftantly let in: in less than a minute the heard a cry of Murder, and immediately the ran to the door, and, looking through the key-hole, faw the three men ftruggling. She inftantly flew to the parlour-window, threw it up, and, getting about half-way in, the faw in the paffage, the parlour-door being open, the prifoner Darnford holding the Clerk by the collar, and the prifoner Newfon put his hand into his pocket, and forcibly pull our the pocket-book. Newton, feeing Mrs. Boucher, immediately dropped the book, and, opening the door, endeavoured to efcape, but was taken, before he could get out of her fight, by a carman. She herself feized the other prifoner, and held him. She faw and handled the pocket-book at the time; Southby, the first witness, produced one, which the fwore was the identical pocket-book that Newton took from James Watts. Payne the conftable proved, that on the kitchen-stairs two doors had been made, one near the bottom, the other about halfway down; that both were so ttrong, that it would be impoffible for any man, once enclofed between them, to free himself without help; and that it would be almost as difficult for him to make himself heard, because the ftair-cafe ran through the middle of the houfe, between the front and back parlour. Another witnefs proved, that no fuch doors were on the ftairs, when the prifoners took away the key; fo that it might be prefumed, that knowing the Clerk would call on the 5th, and that it was extremely probable, that he would have cash to a confiderable amount about him, they had contrived this dark prifon to lock him up in, after they fhould have robbed him. Whether they had killed him before they should hut him in, or not, would be a matter of little 1ittle confequence, as, in all probability, he would have perished in this hole before any affiftance could be given to him. Mr. Morgan, Counfel for Darnford, refted his defence in points of law. He contended, that ás, in order to conftitute a robbery, the party robbed muft have been put in dread and fear, fo no perfon but the party himself could prove this circumftance. He argued likewife, that it was impoffible to infer justly, from the evidence given in, that force had been made ufe of; for though the parties were feen ftruggling, and the book had been abfolutely taken, yet it was fair to prefume, that fome misunderstanding having arifen about their own bill, which the Clerk was come to get paid, the prifoners had endeavoured to take by force what he might have been unwilling to deliver up by fait means: this prefumption, he contended, ought to have its full weight for the prifoners, as no evidence had been given to overturn it. He argued also, that, according to the itatute, robberies committed in houfes, unless fome perfon belonging to the family had been put in dread and fear, did not take away the benefit of Clergy. The houfe was defcribed in the indictment the houfe of Elifabeth Brown,' when it was clear from the evidence that it was then the property of the prifoners. He infifted alfo, that the charge against them, even if proved, did not come within the ftatute that made a robbery committed near the King's highway' the fame as a highway robbery. In his opinion therefore, the indictment was not fupportable, and confequently ought to be quashed. cry of murder fufficiently excited force on the one tide, and fear on the other, the two effentials to constitute the robbery. The ftruggle could not have been made on the part of the prifoners for the recovery of their own note, because it was clear that not a minute had elapfed from the time the door had been opened, till the cry of murder was heard by Mrs. Boucher. As for the argument Crawn from the ftatutes, that fome one belonging to the family must be put in fear, in order to conftitute a robbery without benefit of Cl.rgy, it was grounded on a wrong interpretation: for the ftatute in that instance had only in view the prefervation of property or chattels belonging to the house, but did not in the leaft advert to property on the perfon of a stranger in, but not be longing to, the house. That this was a juft interpretation appeared from the cafe of Lowe in the year 1705, when a fpecial verdict was found, that Jafper Howard had been knocked down in a public-houfe in Smithfield, and robbed of 131. The indictment was laid for a robbery near the King's highway; the Judges, to whom the cafe was referred, were all of opinion, that it was not a robbery near the King's highway, but they alfo were unanimous, that it was a robbery without benefit of Clergy. This he faid was a cafe in point and proved that the defcription near the King's highway' was not neceffary in the indictment; and confequently that it was no flaw. The fame decifion of the Judges proved that it was immaterial where, or in whofe houfe, the crime was committed; it was a capital felony; and therefore Mr. Morgan could not avail himself of the circumftance that the house in question was the house of the prifoners, and not of the perfon to whom the indictment fuppofed it to belong. The Court however, though it admitted the ingenuity of Mr. Morgan's reafoning, by no means concurred with him in opinion. Mr. Buller faid, that it was not neceffary in law that the party robbed fhould himself prove that he had been put in fear; if he had fince died, the crime might fill be brought home. He obferved that the ftruggle in the paffage was an indication of force; and that, the book not having been taken out before the struggle began, it was highly probable that the conteft on the part of the prifoners was not merely to get poffeffion of their own bill. With refpect to the defcription of the house in the indictment, it was of no confequence, for it was a matter of indifference where the robbery had been committed. This he proved by feveral cafes from the Law books. Mr. Juftice Gould obferved, that the Mr. Morgan produced evidence to the character of Darnford; and indeed it was matter of surprise how fuch a man could ever have been guilty of fuch a crime; for, by the evidence of fifteen respectable witneffes, it appeared that he bore a molt excellent character. Some knew him for eleven, fome for fifteen, fome for twenty years and all agreed that he had hitherto led a moft irreproachable life; nay, one old Gentleman went fo far as to fay, that he looked upon Dainford's character as the bell in his parish. The other prifoner got alfo a good character from his witneffes. Mr. Juftice Buller fummed up, and obferved, that the character of the prifoners ought ought not to outweigh the proofs of the crime: the reason was obvious if character could overturn politive evidence, no man who had ever borne a good character could poffibly be punished for the firit offence. The Jury did not deliberate long, and brought in both prifoners guilty. Death. Mr. Buller beftowed many handsome compliments on Mrs. Boucher, for her fpirit and activity, and faid, he hoped that Meffrs. Smith, White, and Grey, would not be fo wanting to themselves, as to fuf. fer her to go unrewarded. Defcription of the BASTILLE of PARIS, with a Plan of it elegantly engraved. The benevolent Mr. HOWARD, in his State of the Prifons both at Home ani Abroad, has inferted a particular Account of this celebrated Prifon, with the Defign of inculcating a Reverence for the Principles of a free Conftitution, like our own, which will not permit, in any Degree, the Exercife of that Defpotifm, ubich has rendered the Name of the Bastille fe formidable. With the fame View we prefent this Defcription to our Readers, which perhaps will be more particularly acceptable, as Mr. Howard has extracted it from a Pamphlet published in 1774, written by a Perfon who was long confined in that gloomy Prifon. This Pamphlet, which is reckoned to contain the best Account of the Battile ever published, is now extremely scarce, the Sale of it being probibited under the fevereft Penalties. REFERENCES to the annexed PLATE. A. Avenue by the street of St. Antoine. D. First court. E. Avenue leading to the great court. G. Corps de garde. H. Great court within the towers. 1. Stair-cafe leading to the council-cham- K. Council chamber. HIS caftle is a ftate-prifon, confifting of eight very strong towers, furrounded with a fofsé, about one hundred and twenty feet wide, and a wall fixty feet high. The entrance is at the end of the ftreet of St. Antoine. by a draw-bridge, and great gates into the court of L'Hotel du Gouvernement; and thence over another draw-bridge to the corps de garde, which is feparated by a strong barrier conftructed with beams plated with iron, from the great court. This court is one hundred and twenty feet by eighty. In it is a fountain; and fix of the towers furround it, which are united by walls of free-ftone ten feet thick up to the top. At the bottom of this court is a large modern corps de logis, which feparates it from the court du Puits. This court is fifty feet by twenty-five. Contiguous to it are the other two towers. On the top of the towers is M. Way to the garden. P. Fossés. QPaffage to the arsenal garden. 2. Tower de la Liberté. 4. Tower de Baznière. a platform continued in terraces, on which The dungeons of the tower de Liberté ther fee nor be seen. 1 |