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intereft, being part thereof. We fincerely wish that the authors of any unwarrantable libels against government may be exemplarily punished as they deferve, according to the laws of the land; at the fame time fincerely hoping that the liberty of the prefs may be preferved, as one of the great bulwarks of the liberty of the subject, provided it is exercifed within legal bounds:

ift, As it tends to promote impartial enquiries touching learning, arts, &c.

2dly, As it is a means of bringing iniquitous practices to light, and is a check upon the bad defigns of men of all ranks and denominations. It would give us great fatisfaction to fee all offenders

against the public good punished as they deferve, in that cool, difpaffionate manner which is agreeable to laws, both ancient and modern, fo firmly established by the excellent frame of our conftitution. That profecutions may be carried on with coolness and ftrict legality; with candid and fair trial, either to conviction or acquittal, by an impartial jury; with punishment according to the offence, or with discharge; and that a reconciliation between magiftracy and fubjects may be effected, and an end put to animofities and jealoufies, in as fhort a time as poffible, is the fincere and ardent wifh of your true and faithful fubjects in all events,

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To the Right Honourable the Lords and Commons of Great Britain.-The very humble and dutiful Memorial of three Brothers; viz. Conflans-Halfpay, Quebec Halfpay, and English All-worthy, for and in behalf of themselves, and the reft of the reduced Officers of his Majesty's Navy and Army.

Moft humbly hereth, THAT your memorialifts being informed that the parliament of Great Britain are foon to meet, do pray that you will be pleafed to take their cafe, the dearnefs of all kinds of provifions, &c. and the narrowness of their finances, into your ferious consideration.

That what your memorialifts moft humbly and dutifully require, is, That a bill may be brought into parliament, and an act may pass, for the following and fuch other like purposes, with fuch alterations and reftrictions as you in your great

wifdom fhall think proper, in the premifes, &c.

Imprimis, That all commiffioned officers of the fea and land-forces, who have been reduced in confequence of the happy period to the late war, and a restoration of a glorious peace, may not be fubjected to any kind of tax or rates for houfes, tenanted by them or any of them, in Great Britain or Ireland, &c.

Item, That they fhall have liberty, duty free, to import their own wine, fpirits, fruits, &c. limiting every man to a certain quantity;

that

that is to fay, to each officer one hogfhead of red-port or white-wine (or half and half) per annum (no French wines or fpirits) and thirty or forty gallons of Jamaica or other, rum or fprits, the produce of British islands or colonies; they producing proper affidavits, and proper certificates, from the fecretary at war, and the secretary of the admiralty; and they the faid halfpay-officers to endorfe on the back of faid certificates, in prefence of a revenue officer, the quantity of each article fo imported, with the date, &c.

N. B. That it may not be thought extravagant, the quantity of liquor which each officer here requires, be it remembered, the various climates they have ferved in during the war, and confequently the neceffity there was (which for health's fake fhould ftill be continued, though in moderation) to drink much more than would have been proper or requifite in a temperate country, &c.

Item, That faid certificates (with their indorsements) be returnable to the War and Admiralty-offices (from whence they are to be iffued) every year, or two or three years, and fresh ones delivered in their stead, &c.

Item, That any officer making a bad ufe of this act, in any fhape directly or indirectly, by lending his name to any other perfon thereby to import wines, fpirits, &c. or by claiming the property of a house, wherein he is only a lodger, and thereby impofing upon his majefty's revenue and parish officers,

that fuch half-pay-officer fo offending fhall be deemed, to all intents and purpofes, guilty of felony, without benefit of clergy.

Item, That any perfon informing against, and convicting an of ficer offending in any of the premifes herein, fhall be rewarded with fifty pounds, which is to be levied from the delinquent's private fortune, real or perfonal, if any he has, &c.

Item, That fuch officers who were before the late war on halfpay, being mostly so by choice (except obliged thereto by real infirmities) and have followed other occupations, may be exempted from the benefit of this act, &c.

Item, That all officers for a confideration of money, retiring on half-pay, or who have done fo fince the commencement of the late war, or who have misbehaved on any occafion, and rather than have their conduct and characters fcrutinized into, have made choice of a halfpay retirement, may respectively be exempted from the benefit of the faid act, &c.

Item, That the said act may only be in force for ten years, or for any other limited time, &c.

Laftly, That an act for thefe or fuch like purposes, will enable your Memorialifts to live decently and comfortably, until they are again. employed, or reftored to full pay, &c.

And your Lordships and Honours Memorialifts, as in duty bound, will ever most ardently pray.

The

The Humble Petition of Messrs. MONSTROUS, MIGHTY, EXCESSIVE, and

WHer

IMMENSE.

To the good People of England, Hereas many of the good people of England have and at prefent do, either on account of the bad furniture of their upper tenements, or fome other great misfortune, (we will not fay maliciously, and with bad intent) greatly injure and abuse us, making us even doubtful of our own meaning, by wrongly and injudiciously apply ing us, as "This thing is monftrous little, mighty weak, exceffive diminutive, and immensely small;" and whereas fuch mifapplications have

often proved fatal and of bad confequence to us; we do most humbly pray the good people of England, that fome regulations, in regard to us, might be taken into

their confideration; and as we cer

tainly have most undoubted rights and pretences to words of more confequence than the above, we fhould ever gratefully acknowledge an establishment in our aforefaid rights, as

Your Petitioners, in fuch cafe, would ever pray.

TH

A Method of defroying Cater-Pillars on Trees.

HE following method of deftroying catter-pillars on trees has been fuccessfully tried in France. The effect of it upon trial in England no doubt would be the fame.

Take a chaffing dish with lighted charcoal, and throwing fome pinches of brimstone in powder on the coals, place it under the branches that

are loaded with cater-pillars. The vapours of the fulphur, which is mortal to thofe infects, will not only deftroy all that are on the trees, but prevent it from being infefted by them afterwards. A pound of fulphur will clear as many trees as grow on several acres.

Poetical

Poetical ESSAYS for JUNE, 1763.

ODE for His MAJESTY'S BIRTH-DAY, June 4, 1763.

Written by William Whitehead, Esq; Poet Laureat, and fet to Mufick by Dr. Boyce.

Common Births, like common things,

Pafs unheeded, or unknown:

Time but spreads, or waves his wings, The phantom fwells, the phantom's gone!

Born for millions monarchs rife

Heirs of infamy, or fame,
When the virtuous, brave, or wise,

Demand our praife, with loud acclaim We twine the feftive wreath, the shrines adorn, [natal morn. 'Tis not our King's alone, 'tis Britain's

Bright examples plac'd on high

Shine with more distinguish'd blaze;
Thither nations turn their eye,

And grow virtuous as they gaze.
Thoughtless ease and sportive leifure,
Dwells in life's contracted fphere,
Public is the monarch's pleasure,

Public is the monarch's care: If Titus fmiles, th' obfervant world is gay, [lofe a day!

If Titus frowns, or fighs, we figh and
Around their couch, around their board

A thousand ears attentive wait,
A thousand busy tongues record

The smallest whispers of the great,
Happy those whom truth fincere

And confcious virtue join to guide!
Can they have a foe to fear,

Can they have a thought to hide ? Nobly they foar above th' admiring throng Superior to the power, the will of acting wrong.

Such may Britain find her Kings! Such the muse of rapid wings Wafts to fome fublimer sphere: Gods, and heroes mingle there. Fame's eternal accents breathe, Black Cocytus howls beneath, Ev'n malice learns to blush, and hides

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By Tempe's green groves;
By the Graces and loves;
By your number divine;
By the notes ye refine:

Defcend, fweet nymphs; defcend, and
The natal day of Britain's King. [fing,
Mr. LOW E.
RECITATIVE.

Again the rofy hours appear,
That ftrew'd, with blifs, the happy year;
That made, with joy, the vallies ring,
When Britain gain'd a British King.
AIR.

Hence, ye factious herd, away;

A patriot zeal inspires my breast,
With grateful voice, to hail the day,

That bade Britannia's fons be bleft:
Bade Britannia's fons be hleft;

When ev'ry virtue under Heaven,
That dignifies the human breast,
To grace our future King was given.
YOUNG GENTLEWOMAN,

RECITATIVE.

Supreme of all cœleftial powers,
Bless our Monarch's focial hours.
AIR.

With blooming youth, and melting
charms,

May Charlotte blefs his faithful arms:
Every nuptial blifs prepare

Youth can give, or age can fhare;
Faith and truth deferve thy care.

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That the virtues of the Sire,

May the growing Son inspire.

AIR.

With zeal his infant cradle 'tend,
Ye pow'rs that Virtue's caufe befriend:
Prolong the life, to Britain dear;
The Sons of Freedom claim your care.

Mifs SMITH.
RECITATIVE.
Come, lovely liberty advance,
With all thy fmiling train;
Broken lie the sword and lance,
Oppos'd to fpoil thy reign.
AIR.

Liberty the woods;

Liberty the floods;
Liberty! the flow'ry vallies ring:
Rocks rebound,

Caves refound,
"Long live the KING."

An ODE performed at the Caftle of Dublin on the 4th of June, being the Birth-Day of his Majefty.

RECIT.

THIS day to Britain's throne was giv'n,

The first, the greatest boon of Heav'n
A royal Briton, born to bless!

To give the groaning world redress,
GRAND CHORUS.

War is no more!

The thund'ring drum-the cannon's roar, Depart from the affrighted thore!

War is no more!

RECIT.

George gave the word,

Bad Horrors cease

He fheath'd the fword,

And all was peace!

Bleft, happy change! fince we can now

relate

Our forrows past as benefits of Fate.

AIR.

Freedom! delight of human-kind!
In peace thy useful fweets are found;
Improvements then employ the mind,
And fpears are into plough-shares
ground:

The foldier now to fafety brought,
Manures the land for which he fought.
RECIT.

Now fplendid Commerce rears he golden
head!
[fed:
By whom th' induftrious are with plenty
The wifh'd-for Fleet falutes the Shore !
And the glad Merchant fighs no more.

AIR.

Our valiant arms! our conquests won!
The Race of Glory nobly run!

Fame too fpreads both far and wide! O happy people! brave and free! Whofe wealth, diffufive as the fea, Flows in with every tide.

RECIT. [Slow, Solemn, Symphony.}
To the Supreme, who gave us aid!
Be our thanksgiving daily paid.
Slow, Solemn, AIR.

Now to the Temple's hallow'd shrine,
Where Rapture (wells, the Hymn divine!
The Royal Pair afcend!

Ruler of worlds! to thee they bow!
From thee a nation's blessings flow,
And Kings on thee depend.

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