And Evening yields thy wall her blusking ray, And Cynthia vifits with her filver beam. O, if this votive verfe furvive thy fall, Bleft will it bear thy memory along; Then future ages will thy form recall, And mourn thy finking grandeur in the fong. Shed on the nations round its placid YET, light. THE ROCK. From the fame: ET, not alone delight the hill and lawn, And grottos of fweet filence, and the rill, Soft trickling down, with chaste and beany drops: Yet not alone delight the groves and shade, And wanton zephyrs, kiffing the wild flow'rs, And stealing the rich fragrance on their wings: Yet not alone delights the riv’let's maze, Now loft, now breaking 'midst the vallies forth, Diffufing health and plenty as it glides: For, too, in love with Nature's rude Sublime, I court the Promontory's dizzy steep, Rifing, in dark and folemn majesty, Repelling the rude buffets of the Winds ny, "I have loft many pounds-make me well, there's a guinea.” The Doctor look'd wife :-" a flow fever," he faid: Prefcribed fudorificks,--and going to bed. "Sudorificks in bed!" exclaimed Will," are humbugs;" "I've enough of them there, without pay. ing for drugs." Will kick'd out the Doctor :-but when ill indeed, E'en difmifling the Doctor don't always fucceed; So, calling his hoft,-he faid,-Sir, do you know, "I'm the fat Single Gentleman, fix months ago?" ling oar, To pilot the rich freight o'er each infidious fand; At diftance here my alien footsteps ftray, O'er this bleak plain unbleft with fhade, Imploring fancy's willing aid To bear me from thy banks of fordid clay: Her barque the fairy lends, With rainbow-pennants deck'd, and cordage fine As the wan filkworm fpins her golden twine, And, ere I feize the helm, the magic voyage ends. Lo, where peaceful Camus glides Or on those bright heroic portraits gaze, That, to my raptur'd eye, the claffic page displays. Her Here, though from childhood to the mufes known, The lyric queen her charms reveal'd; Here, by fuperior influence, held And now the birds on ev'ry budding spray Chant orifons, as to the morn of May: With them all fear of feafons change is flown ; My foul enchain'd, and made me all her Like them I fing, yet not, like them be Oft have I known on this, my natal day, Hoar froit and fweeping fnow prolong their fway, THE RHEDECYNIAN BARBERS, AN ODE, (Parodiad from Gray's Fatal Sifters.) In the eighteenth century, the author of the following parody, (not a ChriftChurchman,) being at Oxford, saw, at a distance, twelve perfons, running at full fpeed down to Chrift-Church cloisters, which they entered; curiofity led him to follow them; when, looking through an opening in the door of a certain commoner, he faw twelve pale figures, refembling men, they were all employed about a youth; and as they worked, they fung the following fong; when they had finished, they put up their implements, and, each taking his own, they scoured away, fix to Peckwater, and fix to the great quadrangle. N Hafte! the powder-bag prepare ; WOW the sky begins to clear, Show'rs of fweets, and perfumes dear, With which thy dufky locks we strain Kreeper's woe, and Krawler's bane. See the frofted texture grow--- 'Tis of Mar'challe powder made; And the tail that plays below, Hangs from **** ****'s head. Keep the quarters close and strong. Harris Tom, with unkempt head, The wild winds whistle, and the forefts Winter's frown, *Two Perfons well known at Chrift-Church. Cap Cap with clattering cap fhall meet- As the gravell'd path we tread, Wading through the empuddl'd fquare, Parapluie of oil-filk spread O'er the youthful beau's dreft hair. Swift Italia's perfumes throw! Our's to plafter our's to plat; Gently spread the perfum'd fat. O'er the dark brown of his cheek. Low the obdurate curl is laid, By our irons ftraitem'd down; Long fhall Chrift-Church fmile with joy, Mille-fleur covers all his pate ! Brothers, ceafe!-the work is done. Hail the task, and hail the hands, Triumph o'er each blackguard crop. Valet! thou that tieft a tale, Learn thy business from our fong! Chrift-Church, thro' each cloister pale, Spread our fame and credit long! PROCEEDINGS OF THE FIRST SESSION OF THE EIGHTEENTH PARLIAMENT OF GREAT HOUSE OF LORDS, March 27. 1797. Debtors and Creditors. laboured under by being fubject to imprifonment on mefne procefs, and frequently being obliged, for want of bail, to lie twelve months in prifon before the plaintiff would bring the matter to a trial He alfo fhewed the hardfhips which many hundreds of others fuffered by being imprisoned in execution, and, where the plaintiff did not proceed, being kept BRITAIN. in goal fometimes for many years from want of money to liberate themselves by fuperfedeas. The Society for the Relief of Perfons confined for Small Debts li laft year one hundred and thirty unfortunate perfone under this wretched predicament. His Lordship moved, "That a Committee be appointed to confider the ftate of the laws between debtor and creditor, and to make their report on the fame." Before his Lordship fat down, he mentioned that the learned Lord then on the woolfack had put into his hands a fcan a fcandalous letter, which the Learned Lord had received from fome perfon, who therein accufes the Learned Lord of authorizing a long lift of enormities which prifoners for debt were fubjected to, and which, he said, he was fure there was not one Lord in that Houfe who would not all together difbelieve. Lord Kenyon began by alluding to the letter mentioned by the Noble Lord, and declared, by all that was saored, and, as he hoped for mercy at the Day of Judgment, that every word in it, fo far as related to himself encouraging enormities in the prison, or in any respect whatever promoting corruption, was abfolutely and positively falfe. He hoped, nay he entreated and conjured their Lord fhips would appoint a Committee to enquire into his conduct in this respect. On the fubject of the Committee moved for by the Noble Lord, he oppofed it, on the ground of the injury that any alteration in the law of Arrefts would do to the Credit of this country as a commercial one. Earl Moira deprecated the idea of a Committee to enquire into the Learned Lord's conduct; and paffed fome very high encomiums on his Lordship's character, of the truth of which he was fure every Noble Lord was convinced. It was only an anonymous letter, and not worthy of notice. He had a fimilar one in his pocket, from a man who called himself a Defperate Creditor, and who threatened to kill his Lordship himself for the exertions he was ufing in favour of unfortunate Debtors. He hoped, therefore, the two anonimous letters might be allowed to pair off together, without any further notice being taken of them. The question being called for, a divifion took place: Contents 21, Not-Contents -Majority 16. Motion for the Removal of Mr Pitt. The Earl of Suffolk offered himself to their Lordships' attention, as poffefling the warmeft love for his country, which by the mifconduct of his Majefty's Minifters had been reduced from a ftate of the higheft profperity to the verge of ruin. He adverted to the conduct of Minifters, in facrificing the feelings of men who had performed the moft eminent fervices to their country, to promote their own perfonal influence, and political jobs with individuals. They had given to a Noble Duke (Portland) a mark of honour intended by his Majefty as a reward for a Noble Earl (Howe,) which he had been well affured was, as it ought to have been, confidered by the Noble Earl as an indignity to him. How had they treated another Noble Lord (Rodney) for the glorious services of the 12th of April? It was true he had a miserable penfion, but he had been fuffered to languish in poverty in his old age; and, but for the perfonal protection he enjoyed as a Peer in Parliament, he would have ended his days in a jail. When deceased, his body was feized on, and for a confiderable time denied the rights of burial. Their whole fyftem was to govern by influence; they had libelled the loyalty of the people, and branded every man with the epithets of Jacobin and Democrat who oppofed their measures. In tracing them through every Court on the Continent, from the Treaty of Pilnitz to the prefent moment, duplicity, incapacity, and corruption were difcernible in all their meafures. The Noble Earl faid, in reviewing the circumftances of the War, he found Minifters as incapable in their plans of hoftility, as they were in their negociations for Peace; and after commenting at fome length on the fituation to which they had reduced the finances of the country, he concluded by a motion to the following effect: "That an humble Addrefs be prefented to his Majefty, praying that he would be gracioufly pleafed to remove from his Councils his Minifter, namely, the First Lord of the Treafury, who, by his mifcondu&, had forfeited the confidence of the People." Lord Grenville very ably replied to the variety of topics in the Noble Earl's Addrefs. He vindicated the conduct of Minifters with respect to the War; he faid, every nerve had been ftrained to profecute it with vigour and effect; and contended that as far as the arms of Great Britain were concerned, the defired fucceffes generally ensued. The mifcarriages of the Allies on the Continent could not fairly be imputed to Minifters; and they feized the firft opportu nity, where it could be done with honour and advantage, of bringing about a Peace, which overtures were notoriously counteracted by the enemy. With regard to the tenor of the motion, he must say, he never knew any inftance of the kind, where fuch a motion was brought forward without any one specific charge alledged of misconduct or malverfation against the perfon in question; it was therefore unneceffary to dwell on that head. He thought it neceffary, however, to |