Anne, (being no fewer than five) "caufe delay in taking the poll, and ought to be reduced into one.' Mr. Shiel, Mr. Prime Serjeant, CoIonel Brown, Colonel Burton, Mr. Langrifhe, and Mr. Scot, oppofed this refolution, as it must have others dependent on it, which attacked the royal prerogative; and it was useless now, as it was too late to frame a bill on it. Mr. Redmond Morres, Mr. French, Mr. Barry, and Mr. George Montgomery, defended the refolution, as neceffary to lead to others which might fhew the house refented the injury. Mr. Prime Serjeant thought it would be beft to poftpone the confideration of this fubject to next feffions; and Mr. Langrithe moved, accordingly, to adjourn it till then, which motion was carried, with few negative voices. Mr. French then moved to refolve, "That the poll for members has been frequently protracted to a fortnight, fometimes to three weeks and more." Mr. Langrifhe, Mr. Provost, and Mr. Mafon, spoke against this motion, and Mr. French, Mr. Barry, Mr. G. Montgomery, Mr. Morres, Mr. Brownlow, and Mr. Ogle, for it, till Mr. John Burke moved to poftpone this also to next feffion, which was carried. Mr. French next moved this refolution: "That thefe delays of the poll in county elections had, at the last general election, produced many riots." This refolution was also adjourned on the motion of Mr. John Burke, as were alfo the following: "That fuch riots afforded pretence to fheriffs to make improper returns." "That idleness, diffipation, and riots have been the confequences of these protracted polls." "That the morals of the people have been confiderably hurt thereby.' Thursday, May 19.] Mr. French again moved the refolutions which he propofed yesterday, the debates on which were ftopped by the question of adjournment. Mr. French faid, that for his part, he was not any way interested in the fate of that bill, but as a real well wifher to the freedom of election, the morals of the people, and improvement of our conftitution; he had for many feffions endeavoured to get that bill paffed into a law; that the fatality meant to be remedied by it, could not be fo well done next feffion; that the British parliament had paffed many acts to regulate controverted elections; that fuch had received the royal affent, but he feared this kingdom was never to be blessed with fuch a law. Mr. Redmond Morres. I wifh gentlemen in administration would point out a mode by which we could obtain this law; a right honourable member (meaning Col. Blaquiere) fays it fhould have his concurrence, furely then, no gentleman will think it hard to keep open this feffion, until we could form a new bill, and have it returned. I own, for my part, I wish to fhew our refentment for not having obtained it, and I wifh to fhew the miniftry the sense of this houfe, by entering into fpirited refolutions relative to it; the manner of doing it I leave to other gentlemen, whether officers of the crown or other members. Sir Edward Newenham. My honour-' able friend wifhes to know a mode to infure fuccefs to this bill. I will tell him, let us tack it to a revenue bill, a bill of fupply, or a Tontine act, then indeed we may be certain of obtaining it. It is curious enough to hear administration fay, that it was owing to errors in the bill that it did not return to us. Why did not administration fend it as free from errors as they did the revenue "That the freedom of elections is bills? was this candour ? much impaired by fuch delays." Notwithstanding the ill fuccefs of these motions, Mr. French ftill perfifted in his chain, and moved to refolve, "That heads of a bill tending to remedy all these evils had been fent over from the house last parliament, but were never returned." This was coming ftill clofer to the point; and as he appeared to have still his handful remaining, the fhorteft way of getting rid of them feemed to be the queftion of adjournment; which was moved by Mr. Langrishe, and carried. On Col. Blaquiere's declaration, that he believed if the election bill should be fent over next feffions, without the errors of the laft, it would come back; and that he would co-operate in that defirable measure; and that any refolutions thereon at prefent would impede its future fuccefs, Mr. French withdrew his motion. Friday, May 20.] Thomas Radcliffe, L. L. D. took the oaths and his feat as member for St. Canice, in the county of Kilkenny, in the room of Eland Moffom, Efq; deceased. The The bill for preferving of the Salmon Fishery, was read a fecond time, when it appeared that the claufe" to prevent taking fifh from Saturday, funfet, to Monday, funrife, and thereby giving them time to go up rivers," had been ftruck out in England. Mr. Adderley complained of the bill being thus mutilated, and that the Attorney General of England had fent to demand gol. as fees for its being a private bill: He therefore oppofed this bill being committed; and was joined in opinion by Mr. Dillon, Mr. French, Mr. Redmond Morres, and Mr. Brownlow; when the question being put, the bill was totally rejected. Monday, May 23.] Mr. O'Neil, after recapitulating the benefits of Lord Harcourt's administration, moved to refolve, "That an humble addrefs of thanks be prefented to his Excellency for his juft and prudent administration." Colonel Brown and Mr. Gorges Low ther joined in the praises of his Excel lency. Mr. Chapman faid as candour was from the first said to be intended to be the characteristick of this adminiftration, he would move, after the word juft, to add the word candid. This was carried nem. con. Sir Edward Newenham moved to add thefe words, evidenced by the reduction of the civil eftablishment and decrease of the penfion lift, this motion paffed in the negative, and then the refolution for the addrefs was carried nem, con, and a committee appointed to prepare the fame to morrow. Tuesday, May 24.] Colonel Blaquiere prefented to the house his majesty's most gracious anfwer to the house's address of thanks, for returning the corn exportation bill, which was read and ordered to be entered on the Journals of the house. Mr. Henry Flood obferved, this was the fecond time that the thanks of the houfe had been ever given to any king for the return of bills, both of which he had the honour to introduce; and moved to prefent an address of thanks to his majefty, for his moft gracious anfwer, which was ordered accordingly, and a Committee appointed to prepare the fame. Mr. O'Neil faid, he was not prefent in the house when fome gentlemen in veighed fo violently against the act introduced by him, in which diffenters were excluded from voting in Parish Veftries for Church repairs, or he fhould have given his reafons in favour of the juftice, expediency and neceffity of the claufe. In many inftances which he knew, diffenters had exercifed illegal power (for the act of 2 Geo. I. excludes them from having voices in Veftries) oppofing every neceffai y expence for repairs of Churches, which had thereby gone to decay; and if the established Church gave them toleration, in regard to their mode of wo:fhip, it was but juft, that in return, they fhould fupport the conftitution in Church and State; whereas, without enforcing this law, they would fap the foundation of the established religion. Sir Annefley Stewart and Mr. George Montgomery maintained their former opinions, and Mr. Hill and Mr. Rowley were about to fpeak, but the order of the day being loudly called for, Mr. O'Neil prefented the addrefs to the lord lieutenant, which was agreed to without any alteration, notwithflanding fome objections were made, and amendments propofed. On this occafion a debate enfued, the fubftance of which, with the speeches of Mr. Chapman, Mr. Ogle, and Sir Edward Newenham, we have already publifhed in our Magazine for June 1774. page 319, to which we refer our readers. This matter being over, Mr. Dennis Daly moved that the thanks of the house be given to the Rt. Hon. Edmond Sexton Perry, their speaker, for his faithful and eminent fervices in the chair; which were voted not only nem. con, but every member feemed eager to be the foremo in feconding the motion. Wednesday, May 25.] Mr. Flood prefened for an addrefs to thank his majesty for his moft gracious answer to their late addrefs. Previous to the order of the day being read, Captain Wilfon rofe, and faid, that as he and many other gentlemen had been prevented, by a point of order on Tuesday, from expreffing their disapprobation to the claufe in the bill for repairing churches, which precluded Prefbyterians from voting at veftries, he thought it incumbent on him to declare his diflike to it; and said, that it appeared to him both inexpedient and unconftitutional, in whatever point of view it might be confidered; whether as an opprobrious reflection on a refpectable fet of people, whom we should protect and cherish, not only from being as good fubjects as could be found in any kingdom, and as invioably attached to the proteftant intereft; but likewife from their being defcended from ancestors who had been materially acceffary to the great and glorious revo lution; lution; or, if examined in a political predicament, as having a tendency to revive the difagreeable animofities which had once prevailed between the established church and the proteftant diffenters; which, through the good fenfe and moderation of the clergy of both profeffions, had been configned to oblivion. He faid that he would not trefpafs on the time of the houfe, by fhewing the dangerous precedent that it might eftablish for invafion on the rights and properties of the subject, as the feffion was fo near a conclufion as to render it impoffible to alter the law; but that he would take the earliest opportunity on the next meeting of the parliament, to co-operate with the gentlemen who had declared their intentions to procure a repeal of the act; and that he was perfuaded the hon. gentleman who brought in the bill, would, from his regard to the intereft of the kingdom, be as ready as any other in affifting to repeal it; and that he was convinced every person must allow, that although a few abfurd individuals who refufed to do what was proper, fhould be punished, that it was unjust, on their account, to stigmatize the whole community. The house then went up to the Castle with the addrefs. Thursday, May 26.] The speaker reported, that the houfe having attended the Lord Lieutenant with an addrefs of thanks to his majefty, and also their addrefs of thanks to his excellency, his excellency was pleafed to fay, he would tranfmit the first to the king; and in anfwer to the latter, declared that he was very fenfible of the approbation of the commons, which he deemed a high reward for his conftant endeavours for the good of this kingdom; that in reprefenting their duty, loyalty, and good conduct, to his majefty, he need only relate the truth, to pay them their jutteft encomium; and that their labours this feffion deserved the thanks of the whole nation. Thursday, June 2.] A meffage from his Excellency, commanding the houfe to attend him immediately in the house of Peers. Mr. Speaker, with the Houfe, went, and his Excellency was pleafed to give the royal affent to the bills inferted in Our Magazine for June, 1774, p. 364. After which his Excellency put an end to the feffion with a moft gracious fpeech, which (together with the addretles of the Lords and Commons) we have already given in our Magazine for June, 1774, p. 361, 362, 363 and 364. began a new journal this morning: you fhall fee it, for if I live not till you return to England, I will leave it you as a legacy: 'tis a forrowful page, but I will write chearful ones; and could I write letters to thee, they fhould be chearful ones too, but few (I fear) will reach thee-however, depend upon receiving fomething of the kindly every poft, till thou waveft thy hand, and bid'st me write no more Tell me how you are, and what fort of fortitude heaven infpires thee with: how are your accommodations, my dear, Is all right?-Scribble away any thing, and every thing to me. Depend upon feeing me at Deal with the James's, fhould you be detained there by contrary winds.-Indeed, Eliza, I fhould with pleafute fly to you, could I be the means of rendering you any fervices, or doing you any kindness "Gracious and merciful God, confider the anguifh of a poor girl-ftrengthen and preferve her, in all the fkocks her frame must be exposed to; fhe is now without protector but thee; fave her from all the accidents of a dangerous element, and give her comfort at the laft.-" My prayer, Eliza, I hope is heard, for the fky feems to fmile upon me as I look up to it I am just returned from our dear Mrs. James's, where I have been talking of thee thefe three hours-fhe has got your picture, and likes it; but Mariot and fome other judges agree, that mine is the better, and expreffive of a sweeter charaster: but what is that to the original? Yet I acknowledge her's a picture for the world, and mine only calculated to please a very fincere friend, or fentimental philofopher. In the one you are dreffed in fmiles, and with all the advantages of filks, pearls and ermine; in the other, fimple as a veftal, appearing the good girl nature made you; which to me conveys an idea of more unaffected sweetness than Mrs. D-p-r habited for conqueft in a birthday fuit, with her countenance animated, and " dimples visible”— If I remember right, Eliza, you endeavour'd to collect every charm of your perfon into your face, with more than common common care, the day you fat for Mrs. James's; your colour too brightened, and your eyes fhone with more than their usual brilliancy I then requested you to come fimple and unadorn'd when you fat for me, knowing (as I fee with unprejudiced eyes) that you could receive no addition from the filk worm's aid, or jeweller's polifh Let me now tell you a truth, which I believe I utter'd before-when I first faw you, I beheld you as an object of compaffion, and a very plain woman— The mode of your dress (the fashionable) disfigured you-but nothing now could render you fuch, but the being folicitous to make yourfelf admired as a handfome one You are not handfome, Eliza-nor is your's a face that will please the tenth part of your beholders But you are fomething more; for I fcruple not to tell you, I never faw fo intelligent, fo animated, fo good a countenance; nor ever was there, nor will there be, that man of sense, tenderness, and feeling, in your company three hours, that was not or will not be your admiter and friend in confequence of it; that is, if you affume or affumed no character foreign to your own, but appeared the artlets being nature defign'd you for -a fomething in your voice and eyes, you poffefs in a degree more perfuafive than any woman I ever faw, read, or heard of; but it is that bewitching fort of nameless excellence, that men of nice fenfibility alone can be touch'd with gave, of teazing and flicking like pitch or bird lime -Sent a card that they would wait on Mrs. *** on Friday She sent back fhe was engag'd-Then, to meet at Ranelagh to-night, the anfwer'd, fhe did not go She fays, if the allows the leaft footing, the never fhall get rid of the acquaintance, which the is refolved to drop at once She knows them; fhe knows they are not her friends or your's, and the first ufe they would make of being with her, would be to facrifice you to her (if they could) a fecond time. Let her not, then, let her not, my dear, be a greater friend to thee than thou art to thyself: fhe begs I will reiterate my request to you, that you will not write to them-'twill give her, and thy Bramin too, inexpreffible pain-Be affured, all this is not without reafon on her fide; I have my reasons too, the first of which is, that I fhould grieve to excefs if Eliza wanted that fortitude her Yorick has built fo high upon I faid, I would never more mention the name to thee; and had 1 not receiv ed it as a kind of charge from a dear woman that loves you, I fhould not have broke my word I will write again to-morrow to thee, thou beft, and moft endearing of girls! a peaceful night to thee; my fpirit will be with thee through every watch of it. Adicu. LETTER VII. My dear Eliza, Was your husband in England, I would freely give him five hundred pounds (if painting will be enough to deH! I grieve for your cabin; and money could purchase the acquifition) to let you only hit by me two hours in the day, while I wrote my Sentimental Journey-I am fure the work would fell fo much the better for it, that I fhould be reimbursed the fum more than feven times told I would not give nine-pence for the picture of you that the have got executed; it is the refemblance of a concerted made up coquette--your eyes, and the fhape of your face (the latter, the moft perfect oval I ever faw) which are perfections that muft ftrike the most indifferent judge, because they are equal to any of God's works, in a fimilar way, and finer than any I beheld in all my travels, are manifeftly infpired by the affected leer of the one, and frange appearance of the other, owing to the at titude of the head; which is a proof of the artift's or your friend's falfe taste. The ***'s verify the character I once July, 1775. ftroy every nerve about thee,-nothing fo pernicious as white lead-Take care of yourfelf, dear girl, and fleep not in it too foon, 'twill be enough to give you a ftroke of an epilepfy. I hope you will have left the fhip, and that my letters may meet and greet you as you get out of your poft-chaife at Deal-When you have got them all, put them, my dear, into fome order-the first eight or nine are numbered, but I wrote the reft without that direction to thee-but thou wilt find them out by the day or hour, which, I hope, I have generally prefix'd to them: when they are got together in chronological order, few them together under a cover-1 truft, they will be a perpetual refuge to thee from time to time, and that thou wilt (when weary of fools and uninteresting difcourfe) retire, and converfe an hour with them and me. Hhh I have not had power, or the heart to aim at enlivening one of them with a fingle ftroke of wit or humour; but they contain fomething better, and what you will feel more fuited to your fituation -a long detail of much advice, truth and knowledge. I hope too, you will perceive loofe touches of an honeft heart in every one of them, which speak more than the most studied periods, and will give the more ground of trust and reliance upon Yorick, than all that labour'd eloquence could fupply-Lean then thy whole weight, Eliza, upon them, and upon me. May poverty, diftrefs, anguifh, and fhame be my portion, if ever I give thee reafon to repent the knowledge of me.' With this affeveration, made in the prefence of a juft God, I pray to him that fo it may fpeed with me, as I deal candidly and honourably with thee I would not mislead thee, Eliza; I would not injure thee in the opinion of a fingle individual, for the richest crown the proudest monarch wears. Remember, that while I have life and power, whatever is mine, you may ftyle, and think your's; though forry fhould I be, if ever my friendship was put to the teft thus, for your own delicacy's fakeMoney and counters are of equal ufe, in my opinion; they both ferve to fet up with-I hope you will answer in this letter; but if thou art debarr'd by the elements which hurry thee away, I will write one for thee, and knowing it is fuch an one as thou would't have written, I will regard it as my Eliza's Honour and happiness, and health and comforts of every kind fail along with thee, thou molt worthy of girls! I will live for thee and my Lydia, be rich for the dear children of my heart, gain wisdom, gain fame and happinefs, to fhare them with thee and her in my old age Once for all, adieu; preferve thy life fteadily, purfue the ends we propofed, and let nothing rob thee of those powers heaven has given thee for thy well being. What can add more in the agitation of mind I am in, and within five minutes of the last poft-man's bell, but recommend thee to heaven, and recommend myfelf to heaven with thee, in the fame fervent ejaculation; An Account of the Fantoccini, in "Dame's FOR court. OR fome weeks paft the town has been amufed with a fpecies of entertainment in which tafte, elegance and humour feem to be conbined. The actions of men imitated by puppits not a foot high, hath, in the very idea, fomething droll; and the manager of this little theatre demonftrates he has spared no expence to render it agreeable. The decorations of the theatre are truly elegant, and are executed in a good tafte. The scenery and machinery are well painted, and the puppits well dreffed; the band of mufic is far from contemptible; the tunes are well felected, and the whole performance conducted with the greateft decorum. All the ribaldry of former Punch's is entirely banished, and ladies may carry their daughters thither, without any apprehenfions of having their ears invaded by indelica. cy or grofs jefts. Mr. Punch fays very juftly, in his introduction to the opera, as the actions of puppits are properly burlesques upon thofe of mankind, it would be the height of impropriety for them to represent any thing that is really ferious. Nothing therefore can be more in character than to admit only burlefque pieces at Mr. Punch's theatre; and nothing are more fit to be burlesqued than the actions of PAGAN DEITIES, and the heroes affifted by them, which were once believed, with a mistaken veneration, by the antient heathens, and now fo univerfally and justly laughed at." In conformity to this opinion, the manager reprefents the fabulous actions of Perfeus and Andromeda, in a ludicrous light; and has formed them into a Barleique Opera, which is truly laughable, and which for merit has been exceeded only by the justly celebrated burletta of Midas. The story is in the minds of almolt every body, and the conduct of it is as follows: The firft fcene reprefents the out-fide of the temple of Juno. Caffote, the wife of Cepheus, king of Ethiopia, enters with her fifter Merope, as going to offer facrifice to that goddefs, to appease her wrath; for he had fent Medusa (whofe hair had been converted into fnakes) to turn the inhabitants of the city into stone. By the difcourfe between the two fillers, we learn that Andromeda, the king's daughter, was defigned as a wife to Phineas, brother to his majefty, but she was Courted by Perfeus, fon of Jupiter, with whom Merope was deeply in love. While Cafhore |