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His wide incircling pinions firft were fpread,

Then Liberty, attendant in his train,

Pour'd forth her notes of harmony divine, Promis'd her bleffings to each lift'ning fwain,

And Fate prolong'd the notes, and
crown'd the vaft defign.

And next to Freedom, Science claims our
lay,
Science, long bury'd with imperial

Rome,
Dawning from Eaftern climes fhe took
her way,

To where Campania fees her olive bloom.

Thence to thefe fhores fhe held her facred course,

Then Bigotry and Ignorance withdrew;

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The lily and the blushing rofe,
From public view her charms will screen,
And rarely in the croud be seen ;
This fimple truth fhall keep her wife,
The fairest fruits attract the flies.

One night a glow-worm, proud and

vain,

Contemplating her glitt'ring train,
Cry'd, fure there never was in nature
So elegant, fo fine a creature:
All other infects that I fee,
The frugal ant, industrious bee,

The Arabians were once the great enemies of learning; infomuch, that Omar, their Caliph, ordered the library at Alexandria to be burnt becaufe (as be faid) no book ought to be read but the Koran of Mahomet.' Afterwards, however, this race of men became the patrons of art ;-astronomy, phyfic, and poetry in particular were first revived amongit them, and from thence diffufed over Italy and France, from whence they were imported at firft as exotics to the North of Europe.-Let our present improvements witness how they have flourished in our foil.

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Ör filk-worm, with contempt I view;
With all that low mechanic crew,
Who fervilely their lives employ
In bufinefs, enemy to joy.
Mean, vulgar herd! ye are my scorn,
For grandeur only was I born,
Or fure am fprung from race divine,
And plac'd on earth to live and thine.
Thofe lights that sparkle fo on high
Are but the glow-worms of the sky:
And Kings on earth their gems admire,
Because they imitate my fire.
She fpoke. Attentive on a fpray
A nightingale forbore his lay;
He faw the flining morfel near,
And flew, directed by the glare;
A while he gaz'd with fober look,
And thus the trembling prey bespoke :
Deluded fool, with pride elate,
Know, 'tis thy beauty brings thy fate:
Lefs dazzling, long thou might'ft have lain,
Unheeded on the velvet plain :
Pride, foon or late, degraded mourns,
And beauty wrecks whom the adorns.

A NEW HUNTING SONG.
Sung by Mr. VERNON at Vauxhall.
SEE Phoebus begins to enliven the East,

And fee the gay dawn wears away; Come, roufe, fellow huntfman, relinquish dull reft,

And join in the fports of the day.

No longer in floth let your fenfes remain,
Untainted the fweets of the morn;

Drive flumber away, and make one in our
train,

To follow the found of the horn.

II.

What mufic to ours can for fweetness compare,

What sports fuch a pleasure can yield? What fcent fo refin'd as the new morning air?

What profpect fo bright as the field? Let mifers for riches each tranfport forego, 'Midft their treasures diftrefs'd and forlorn,

We taste ev'ry joy, and forget ev'ry woe,
So charming the sound of the horn.

III.

Such pleasures we feel while from vanity
free,

Our hours pass contented along;
In innocent paftime, in mirth and in glee,
With a hearty repast and a fong.
Ye mortals unbiafs'd by honours and
wealth,

Those titles that forrow adorn,
Would you taste the calm joys of content.
ment and health,

Then follow the found of the horn.

EPITAPH upon the TOMB of the Rev. Mr. RALPH TYRER, Vicar of Kendal, in the Choir of that Church, who died in 1627.

WRITTEN by HIMSELF.

London bred mee, Westminster fed mee,
Cambridge fped mee, my fifter wed mee,
Study taught mee, Living fought mee,
Learning brought mee, Kendal caught mee,
Labour preffed mee, Sicknels diftreffed mee,
Death oppreffed mee, the grave poffessed mee,
God first gave mee, Chrift did fave mee,

Earth did crave mee, and Heaven wou'd have mee.

*Meaning, perhaps, at the inftigation of his fifter.

D. M.

PROCEEDINGS at the late Seffions, held in Juftice-Hall, in the OldBailey, including an Account of the Executions of the RIOTERS, &c.

Wednesday, July 5. HIS day the report was made to his Majed in Concil of the convicts under fentence of death, when the following were ordered for execution:

William M'Donald, for beginning to pull down the house and burn the furni

ture of John Lebarty, in St. Catharine'slane, near Tower-hill; and Mary Roberts and Charlotte Gardiner, for aflifting in demolishing the said Mr. Lebarty's houfe, to be executed on Tower-hill.

William Brown, for affaulting Carter Daking in his houfe in Bishopsgate-ftreet,

in the day-time on the 7th ult. and robbing him of 1s. to be executed in Bishopfgate-street.

William Pateman, for beginning to pull down the 'houfe of Robert Charlton, in Coleman-street, to be hanged in Colemanftreet.

Thomas Taplin, Captain of a party of rioters, for robbing, under threats, Mr. Mahon, of Bow-ftreet, of half a crown; and Richard Roberts, for being concerned in the demolition of Sir John Fielding's houfe in Bow-street, to be executed in Bow-street.

James Henry, for fetting fire to Mr. Langdale's dwelling-houfe in Holborn, to be executed in Holborn.

Enoch Fleming, for being concerned in demolishing the houfe of Ferdinand Schomberg, to be executed in Oxford-street.

Chriftopher Plumley, alias Williams, for ftealing a filver tankard in the house of Alexander Sutherland; he was capitally convicted in February Seffions of a like offence, was refpited, and afterwards releafed by the rioters; to be executed at Tyburn.

The following were refpited during his Majefty's pleasure, viz. George Banton, for robbing Richard Stone on the highway in St. Andrew's, Holborn, of 6d. in filver; George Kennedy, for affifting in pulling down the houfe of Mr. M'Cartney, in Featherstone - freet, Bunhill-row; William Lawrence, for being concerned with Richard Roberts, in demolishing Sir John Fielding's houfe Edward Dennis (the Hangman) for aflifting in demolishing the houfe of Mr. Boggis, in New Turnitile; John Morris, for being concerned with Enoch Fleming in demolishing Ferdinand Schomberg's house: Anne Barnes, for fealing 25 yards of printed linen in the fhop of Mr. Ravenhill, in Norton Falgate; William Price, for ftealing a horse, the property of Mr. White; Elifabeth Cox, for robbing Sufannah Chapman on the highway; Richard Fofter, for being concerned with others in burning and deftroying Ferdinand Schomberg's houfe; John Gray, for affifting in demolishing Lord Mansfield's houfe; Eliz. Breeze, for breaking into the houfe of Mary Shearman, and ftealing wearing apparel, &c. John Jones, for robbing John Cradden on the highway, near Widegate-alley, of a filver watch.

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pulling down and deftroying the houfe of Mr Charlton, apothecary and chymist in Coleman-freet, was carried from Newgate to the place of execution, a few doors below where he had committed the crime for which he was to fuffer. As foon as the cart reached the gallows, Pateman requested he might not be tied up till he had finished his prayers, which being granted, be continued praying about half an hour with the Ordinary. The executioner then put the rope about his neck, and made it faft to the gallows; but, on enquiry of the prifoner for his cap to put over his face, he faid he had forgot to bring one with him. This being known, a cap was fent him from a houfe oppofite, which being put on, he was immediately launched into eternity. After hanging about 20 minutes, the body was put into a hearse which waited to receive it.

Pateman was about twenty years of age, five feet leven inches high, and a tout young man. He appeared very penitent, and when the cart drew away, cried out aloud, Lord Jefus receive my foul!"

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It was with the utmoft difficulty that the Ordinary of Newgate could prevail on Pateman to strip his hat of a blue cockade, which he infifted before he left the prifon he would wear, declaring that he died a Martyr to the Proteftant caufe, and should leave the world chearfully. Mr. Villette remonftrated with the prifoner, and advised him to prepare for his aweful fate; the prifoner was at laft prevailed on to fuffer the cockade to be taken away. When he came to the place of execution he sunk under the load of his affliction, and was permitted to fit down; he looked feveral times at the remains of Mr. Charlton's house, and shook his head.

When the body of Pateman was cut down, the Sheriffs returned immediately to Newgate for William Brown, condemned for robbing Mr. Daking, a cheesemonger, in Bifhopfgate-ftreet. The gallows for this culprit was erected at the joining of the four crofs ftreets, four doors diftant from the house where the offence was committed. The cart arrived at the place of execution a little after ten. The prifoner remained about 25 minutes in fervent prayer with the Ordinary. The executioner then tied him up. His father, a

grey-headed old nan, accompanied the priloner from Newgate; and when Mr. Villette came up into the cart, kiffed his fon, and went down into the ftreet, where he remained during the whole time of the execution, clote by the fide of the cart.

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The convict hung an hour, at the expiration of which no hearfe appearing to take away the body, the cart was backed under the gallows, and the convict was let -down into it, when the father accompanied his fon's corpfe to the grave.

Brown was about twenty-two years of age, of a very florid complexion, and about five feet five inches high.

The two foregoing executions being over, the Sheriffs next proceeded to that on Tower-hill, when William Macdonald, Mary Roberts, and Charlotte Gardiner, convicted of pulling down the houfe of Mr. Lebarty in St. Catharine's-lane, were executed on that part of Tower-hill nearelt the faid lane; the man was hanged between the two women, who embraced each other, and he shook hands with them.-When the Ordinary left them, they thook hands feparately and jointly, and all with one voice cried out loudly, May we have a happy meeting in the kingdom of Heaven. -They all anfwered Amen.

M'Donald was about 40 years of age, dreffed in a red coat and waistcoat, with fhort black hair, and very hard-featured, his face almost approaching to a Mulatto.

Mary Roberts was about 29 years of age, born in Eatt-Smithfield, and behaved in the most decent, penitent manner.

Charlotte Gardiner, a black woman, was about twenty-four years of age; had been upon the town, about Saltpetre-bank, Nightingale-lane, &c. for fome time; had not much to fay, but acknowledged herfelf to be a great finner, yet hoped the Lord would receive her foul.

Wednesday, July 12.

This morning, between fix and feven o'clock the following convicts were let out from their cells, and attended divine fervice in the room appointed for that purpofe in Newgate, previous to their executions: viz. Richard Roberts, for deftroying, &c. the house of Sir John Fielding, in Bow-ftreet; Thomas Taplin, for obtaining by threats two fhillings and fixpence of Mr. Mahon, apothecary in Bowtreet; and James Henry, for demolishing the houfe of Mr. Langdale, in Holborn.

After having been at public devotion with the Ordinary, near an hour, Roberts and Taplin had their irons knocked off, and were put in the cart, and conveyed to Bow-ftreet, the place deftined for their execution-Roberts was a child of fourteen years and seven months old, apprentice to a hair-dreffer in the Temple, was decently dressed in brown clothes, and had a hearfe waiting to receive his body.

At the place of execution he behaved with great fortitude, and made a speech to. the following purport: That he defired all people, particularly youth, to take warning by his unhappy fate-faid, he was never before guilty of any bad crime, nor did he think, or know, the danger his life was in when he committed that for which he fuffered. He freely forgave his profecutors, and wifhed they might die with as happy a profpect of everlasting comfort as he did. He warned youth to be obedient to their parents and matters; to serve God, keep his Sabbath; and, if ever fuch perilous times fhould happen again, earnestly requested them to think of his death, and they would keep at home.

Thomas Taplin, the other convict, was about thirty-feven years of age, decently drelled in claret-coloured cloaths, had been a mafter hackney-coachman, and lived in the yard of the Eight Bells, near St. Giles's Church in the Fields. At the place of execution, he behaved, in a very penitent manner, faid his fentence was juft, though fevere; and made a fpeech to the following purport:

Spectators, who attend to view my unhappy end, let me earnestly recommend to you to mind the laws of God and man, and be content in the ftation of life in which Providence has placed you: had that been my cafe-had I attended to fuch advice, I fhould have avoided this unhappy end-God send you all may take warning, and efcape it."

The gallows was fixed close to the end of Bow-ftreet, fo that both prifoners faw the houses for which they fuffered. After execution the gallows was removed to the end of Hatton-garden, and the Officers, &c. returned to Newgate, and brought out the body of the remaining convict.

James Henry, 20 years of age, born in Rumford, was convicted on the clearest evidence, though he had many people to his character.

He arrived at the place of execution about twenty minutes before twelve, and prayed very earnestly for fome time, and, after addreffing the numerous fpectators, at fourteen minutes after twelve he was launched into eternity. Jutt before he was turned off, he cried aloud, O Lord give me comfort in thefe my last moments!Pardon all my fins, and receive 'me into thy glorious kingdom.

Thursday, July 13.

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a cart from Newgate to the place of execution; he arrived at the end of Woodstocktreet, in Oxford-road, where the gallows was erected, about a quarter past ten, and, after spending half an hour with the Ordinary in prayer, Fleming was launched into eternity. He was about 27 years old, was by trade a basket-maker, and worked at it on Blenheim-steps, in Oxford-road, but a few doors from the place of execution. He behaved very penitently, acknowledging his crime, but struggled much in death. After hanging the ufual time, his body was taken away by his widow.

When Fleming had hung near an hour, a coach, furrounded by Sheriffs Officers, and driven at a great pace, arrived at the corner of Woodtock-itreet. As foon as Fleming had been cut down, Chriftopher Plumley, alias John Williams, for privately ftealing in the dwelling-house of Alexander Sutherland, a filver tankard, was taken out of this carriage, and conveyed (the proceffion being only the fame as on former occafions) to Tyburn; where he prepared himself for death with a mixture of manly refignation and unaffected penitence that made a deep impreffion on the furrounding multitude. When the executioner put the rope about the neck of Plumley, the latter was fo deeply engaged in his devotions, that he feemed infentible of this aweful circumftance. A friend afcended the cart, and took an affecting leave of him; after which he was turned off, and his body, having hung the ufual time, was put into a hearse that flood ready to receive it.

He was released from Newgate by the rioters, and a day or two after committed the above robbery.

Friday, July 14.

This day Mr. Recorder made his report to his Majesty of the following convicts under fentence of death in Newgate, viz.

George Staples, for feloniously affembling, with a great number of perfons, to the terror of the people at the house of James Malo, in Moorfields, London, and being prefent at, and affitting in demolith ing part of the faid houfe, and the goods and furniture of the faid James Malo.

Thomas Kelly and Andrew Gray, for feloniously affaulting James Rothaker, on the high-way, and robbing him of 10s. and an handkerchief.

Benjamin Bowley, Francis Mockford, Thomas Haycock, and John Glover, for

feloniously, riotously, and tumultuousy affembling, with a great many more dif orderly perfons, before the dwelling-house of Richard Akerman, at Newgate, and pulling down and demolishing the faid dwelling-house, and the goods and furniture thereof, and fetting fire to and confuming the fame, and fetting at large the prifoners confined in the faid gaol.

Benjamin Waters, for feloniously and James Buckley, Jofeph Markefs, and riotously affembling with others, and affifting in destroying the dwelling-house of Cornelius Murphy.

fembling with others at the House of ChriSamuel Solomons, for feloniously af ftopher Connor, in Black Lion Yard, Whitechapel, and beginning to pull down the fame, and burning and destroying the furniture thereof.

William Avery, for feloniously affemKilby Cox, Efq; in Great Queen-ttreet, bling with others at the house of Robert Lincoln's-Inn-Fields, and with force be ginning to demolish and pull down the faid house.

bling with divers other perfons at the Jonathan Stacey, for felonioufly affemdwelling-houfe of Mr. Dillon, in Whiteftreet, Moorfields, and pulling down and demolishing the faid houfe, and the goods and furniture thereof.

feloniously affembling with others at the Thomas Price and James Burn, for houfe of John Bradbury, the Crown, in certain riotous mob in destroying his dwelGolden-lane, and aiding and affifting a ling-houfe.

bling with others before a dwelling-house Theophilus Brown, for riotoufly affemin the front of a Romish chapel, fituate in White-treet, Moorfields, pulling down the faid dwelling-house and chapel, and kindling fires for confuming the fame.

John Gamble, for feloniously affembling depredations, and pulling down part of the with others, and committing great riots and Bethnal Green, and throwing the fame dwelling-houfe of David Wilmot, Efq; at into the fire.

felonioufly ftealing in the dwelling-house
Charles Kent and Lætitia Holland, for
of the Right Hon. William Earl of Manf-
field, during the riot, two petticoats, two
muflin aprons, &c.

Jing with divers other perfons, at the house
James Jacklon, for feloniously affemb-
of Mr. Akerman, at Newgate, and felo-
lifhing, burning, and deftroying the faid
nioufly and riotoufly pulling down, demo-
houfe, goods, and furniture, of the faid

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