'Tis fpring tempts you here, Then bend the foft ear,

We chaunt only pleasure and love.

Our lark and our thrush, And each bird of our bush, With our nightingale perch'd on yon spray, Try to wake ev'ry breast,

Or to melt you to jest,
And lull all your troubles away.

I, a linnet, and young,
Will pour out my fong,
My fong may'nt be heard all in vain ;
Then take, ye kind fair,

A poor bird to your care;
She's blefs'd, if you're pleas'd with her ftrain.

A Ballad, fung by Mr. VERNON, in Vauxhall-gardens, and fet by Mr. WORGAN.

"OU may do as you will, but I'll fling

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away care,

II fport with the fwains, and I'll toy with the fair;

For joys yet unknown I may find fgringing there;

And 'tis better by half

Love and nectar to quaff,

All the days of my life thus I'll frolic and laugh.

'Till lately, there liv'd not fo wretched an elf, I tended my flocks and fought nothing but pelf,

Car'd little for others, but much for myself. But 'tis better, &c.

But wishes for more are all foolish and vain, And thought for to-morrow brings nothing but pain,

Enjoying to-day I shall find the beft gain.
For 'tis better, &c.
Come over to me, all ye gay blooming throng,
And take it, the way to be bleft the year long
Is to welcome fweet love, wine, and foul-
chearing fong.

Now fancy leads her airy-plumed train Through mazy walks, by gently-purling rills;

Now Philomela fwells her mournful train, And all the grove with foftest mufic fills.

Now roves at large the yoke-denying hart, Yet dreads the hunter at the peep of dawn; Now Sylvan nymphs exert the vocal art, Whilft nimble fairies trip it o'er the lawn. Here mofs-grown grots, and bubbling Atreams are feen,

And gloomy groves in ftately columns rife ; Here fruitful meads, enamell'd all with green;

There, awful mountains feem to prop the fkies.

Now Cynthia gilds the dew-bespangled grove, And cafts profufely round her maiden light;

Led by the mufe, thro' filent paths I rove,

And please my fancy with the varied fight. Behold that rock, that rears its head fo high, In rude magnificence o'erlooks the flood; See on its tops the mangled ruins lie,

Where once a caftle's ftately turrets food,

There oft have heroes crown'd the gen'rous bowl,

And virgins liften'd to their lover's call; And airy mirth poffefs'd each happy foui, Whilst bands of mufic echo'd through the hall;

Ah! now no heroes quaff the flowing bowls,

Nor joys poffefs their now wide-parted fouls, Nor fprightly mufic chears the ruin'd hall; Nor virgins listen to their lovers' call !

The creeping ivy fhades each tott'ring tow'r,

And clafps the ruins with a fond embrace; The fcreech-owls claim the melancholy bow'r

And bodi favens hover round the place.

How vain the pageantry of worldly things!

And what is grandeur but an empty name? Short-liv'd the glory of the greatest Kings, Tho' flaughter'd nations raife their ill-got fame.

Alert, he rifes to his toil,

And of his labour reaps the spoil.
Thus his forefathers, blefs'd with health,
Obtain'd a competence of wealth.
Ambition never haunts his breast,
Nor warlike mufic breaks his reft;
No tempeft-dreading merchant, he
Views unconcern'd the troubled fea;
He fhuns the bar, and fcorns to wait,
Requesting at a great man's gate.
With cautious hand he loves to join
The poplar to the fpreading vine,
Superfluous branches moves away,
And guides with care the useful spray :
Or, in a low fequefter'd ground,
He views his lowing herds around.
At timely feafons of the year,
He fhears his tender fleecy care;
And in his jars referves a hoard
Of balmy fweets his bees afford.
When Autumn rears its golden head,
And decks with fruitful trees the mead,
Then with what joy he drops the pear,
Which his own indeftry did rear;
And eke the grape, whofe beauteous dye
Might e'en with Tyrian purple vie,
Which to Priapus he may yield
An off ring guardian to his field.
Beneath an oak's romantic fhade,
Serene, he views the woodland glade;
Or, ftretch'd upon the humble grafs,
Beholds the headlong river pafs;
The feather'd throng with plaintive notes,
In neighb'ring woods extend their throats,
While purling rills, defcending steep,
Provoke involuntary fleep.

When winter hovers, fell and drear,
And clouds and darkness crown the year,
With faithful dogs he beats the field,
And makes the briftly wild-boar yield;
Or cautious spreading, artful gets
The cold-numb'd thrushes in his nets;
The foreign ftork, and trembling hare,
Are catch'd unheeding in the fnare.

Who would not here avoid the darts
Which reft-confuming love imparts I
But yet fupremely happy he,
Returning from his toil, to fee
His rofy children, and a wife,
The darling comfort of his life.
Chafte as the fnow, with temper mild
As the foft breefe that fans the wild;
She culls, against her spouse return,
Wood in commodious heaps to burn;
Houfes with care the bleating flock,
And frees them of their milky stock;
Pours out new wine to greet her Lord,
And unbought viands crown the board.
Enrich'd with health, a foe to wafte,
Ne'er fhall my (yet unpamper'd) taste
Entreat the eastern wind to roar,
And waft fresh dainties to the shores
Not Africa's delicious bird,
Nor Afratic ftill preferr'd,

Cou'd relifh half fo well with me,
As olives gather'd from my tree,
Or herbs, delicious to the tafte,
Which late fome riv'let's margin grac'd ;
A kid, the best my cots afford,

Or feftal lamb, fhall deck my board.
What joy to fee my firstlings come,
Fresh from their pafture, bleating home!
My lufty oxen loos'd from toil,
Who daily till my grateful foil;
Pleas'd with the fight of home, they low,
And carelefs bear th' inverted plow.

My fervants neat about me stand,

And watchful wait their Lord's command.
And furniture in order plac'd,
With plain fimplicity of taste.-

When this the us'rer Alphius faid,
Each thought his love for gold allay'd;
Suppos'd he'd spend his mufty store,
And like the country more and more :
That month, he did recall his cash,
And damn'd his gold as empty trash;
The next, his bags impatient fent,
And put them out at ten per cent.

Shine, came on in the Court of King s

Aturday morning, June z, a little after

Bench, Westminster-hall, before the Right Hon. the Lord Mansfield, the trial of John Almon, by information, for felling the letter of Junius to the K- in a monthly publication called, the London Mufeum. Only eleven of the fpecial Jury that were finnmoned attending, the Court was obliged to have recourfe to a talefman from the common Jury, when the caufe was opened by reading the information, after which Mr. Attorney-general got up and informed the Court, That he had lodged the information

as a duty required of him from his office, and for fuch an offence as, in his opinion, would not be fuffered to pass unpunished in any country; that it was true every subject m this free kingdom had an undoubted right to make ufe of his hands, his fword, or pen; but that our laws were made to r. train the ufe of them to the preiudice of any individual. He exerted himself with all the cloquence he was matter of in praise of the King, and among other things faid: "What heart is there in this Court, that would not glow with transport having fuch a fon! what heat is the

in this Court, that would not glow with transport at having fuch a father!" from prailing the King, he proceeded to the heinoufnels of traducing a character fo exalted, fo deservedly esteemed; next afferted that he held the liberty of the prefs in the highest eftimation. After expatiating largely on many parts of Junias's letter, he left the affair to the determination of the Jury. Two witnelles were then examined on the fide of the Crown, the first one Mr. Bibbins, the ad called Mr. Crowder, who, upon Serjeant Glynn's questioning him, informed the Court he was a private Gentleman belonging to the Treafury;' this Gentleman was peculiarly accurate in his evidence, more than once declaring he bought Junius's letter at Mr. Almon's in a mifcellaneous collection, called the British Mufeum, whereas the name of the pamphlet is the London Mufeun; but, as this was not taken notice of by the Court, we prefume it was of little confequence, although the witness was giving evidence upon oath.

Their depofition being made, Mr. Serj. Glynn got up, and entered with accuracy and precifion on Mr. Attorney's speech; he faid He totally agreed with him as to the excellency of his Majefty's character and difpofition, equally coincided with him that the man who perfonally traduced him, with an intent to alienate the affections of his people, was the worst of ruffians, the vileit of affaflins; but that cenfuring the conduct of the Miniftry; was by no means criminal; that the King's hand was neceffarily and unavoid ably concerned in every act of government;' and that any person was liable to punithment for animadverting on government' was a doctrine of a nature too pernicious to admit of an advocate in any Court, as it ftruck at once at the liberty of the prefs, the principal bafis of our freedom; as to the fubject matter of Junius's letter, he would not enter on it at this time, as it would probably be debated hereafter; that concerned and would fall upon the original publisher, he would not therefore trifle with the time of the Court, but he could not help taking notice, that he thought the Officers of Government were confcious they went upon wrong grounds in this profecution, as in the information they had omitted the word falfe, cuftomarily ufed, and which was at prefent peculiarly neceffary, fince, if they knew the contents of Jumus's letter were untrue, they certainly fhould have inferted this word in the information, the oiniffion implying, that every charge made by Junius was a fact. This was a circumftance, he obferved, that the Council for the Crown fhould have

started, and not have left it for the defendant's Council to point out to them.--And, impartially confidering the cafe, it was uncommonly cruel to fingle out Mr. Almon for felling Junius's letter in a miscellaneous pamphlet, when it had been published and fold, at the firft hand, by many different perfons: The Meffengers of the prefs, who fwore they had bought it at Mr. Almon's, he declared, were Officers, who ought to have been abolished ever fince the days of James II; and he did not think any degree of criminalty attended the perfon who fold a thing inadvertently, as fome intention ought to be proved, of which the most distant proof could not be brought in this cafe, there being witneffes ready to fwear, that the pamphlet was fold without Mr. Almon's knowledge, and against his confent: The Serjeant obferved, that in a civil action, if a man ftruck his neighbour inadvertently, and without intention of hurting him, he would certainly be acquitted; that it was a parallel cafe, and he hoped the Gentlemen of the Jury, in whofe hands he trufted his client, would confider it as fuch. Mr. Davenport, the other Council for Mr. Almon, feconded the Serjeant, and having finished, Lord Mansfield gave a fhort charge to the Jury: He told them, that the Serjeant was mistaken as to the omiffion of the word falfe; that that, and many more epithets in informations, were mere terms in law; and that the word falfe, and feveral other words of the like nature, had been omitted for fome years, they being wholly immaterial; that the Jury had two points to go upon; the firft, Whether Mr. Almon was the publisher? The fecond, Whether they agreed to the conftruction put upon Junius's letter in the information? But he particularly urged, as the most material, the queftion, Whether Mr. Almon was or was not the publisher? Declaring that intention had nothing to do in the cafe; that the fale was actual publication; and, if the Jury thought fo, they would and must bring him in guilty.-The Jury withdrew for near two hours; at their return, Herbert Mackworth, Efq; one of the Jury, faid he had doubts, and defired to ask the Court a queftion, Whether, on a proof of the bare felling, they were legally obliged to find the defendant guilty. In anfwer to which, he was informed, The fale, even by a fervant, was prima facie evidence, on which they were bound to convict :' Upon which they found the defendant guilty of re-publication. The Council for the Crown were the Attorney and Sollicitor Generals, Mess. Morton, Wallace, Dunning, and Walker; and the Sollicitors, Mellis. Nuttall. Sf 2

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and Francis, of the Treafury; for the defendant, Mr. Serjeant Glynn and Mr. Davenport, Council; and Mr. Martyn, of Jermyn-ftreet, Solicitor.

It will not be amifs to obferve further that the Attorney-general declared, his reafon for not bringing on the original publisher's trial firft was, that he was ill in bed, and had been fo for fome time; in which he was greatly mistaken, the original publisher having been for fome months paft in perfect health, and at that moment, the very time of the trial, attending at Westminster-hall, in confequence of a fubpoena from the Government, to produce the original copy of the advertisement.

The names of the Jury on Mr. Alınon's trial were,

Talefinan.

Stillman, corn-chandler, Ruffel

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N Wednesday June 13, at half paft nine came on in the Court of King'sBench, Guildhall, before Lord Chief Juftice Mansfield, and a special Jury, the trial of the original printer and publisher of Junius's letter to the King, on Tuesday the 19th of December laft: Only feven of the special Jury attended, whofe names were,

William Bond, Foreman. Peter Cazalet. Alexander Peter Allen. Frederic Commerell. Hermen Meyer. John Thomas. Barrington Buggin.

Upon which the following five talefinen were taken out of the box, viz.

William Hannard. Paul Verges. William Sibley. William Willett, William Davis. The letter being read, the Attorney-general opened the trial with an enconium on commerce; expreffing the happiness of having a trial before a special Jury of merchants of London. After he had paid the Jury many compliments, he informed them, that the letter in question was totally and univerfally abhorred: He declared, he was utterly unknown to the perfons under profecution; that he had no perfonal malice to any of them; that he had filed the information officially; that he thought it the indifpenfable duty of his office, and therefore had ordered the papers which contained the letter to be bought and fent to him as foon as it appeared; that he had felected a number of perlons to file informations againft, as he would not profecute any who might have large families, but little property, or who might be ruined by the

profecution, or incapable of going to the expence of defending it. He then mentioned his not bringing on the original publisher's trial firft, giving it as his opi nion, that the man who printed a libel on the Tuesday, or any enfuing day, was equally criminal with the perfon who might originally have printed it on the Monday; and informed the jury, that he had witnesses ready to prove the buying the paper, and fix the fact of publication: He did not doubt, therefore, that they would bring the defendant in guilty.

The evidence were then called, who were Nathaniel Crowder, who fwore he bought the paper of Mr. Woodfall's publishing fervant, whom he named.

Mr Harris, of the Stamp-office, who proved, that the duty for the advertisements and ftamps were paid by Mr. Woodfall. And

A clerk of Sir John Fielding's, who, being called, proved, by a receipt from Mr. Woodfall, his concern in, and for, the paper.

The publication and direction of the paper by Mr. Woodfall being thus proved,

Mr. Serjeant Glynn rofe up, and declared He agreed with Mr. Attorney-generalis to the excellence of a London Jury, and doubted not the liberties of the people were fufficiently fafe, while there were trials by Jury; he told the Jury, That if they were of opinion that the fenfe put upon Junius letter in the information, was the true fenfe; if it was true, that it was a faife, fcandalous, and feditious libel; if they thought hi

client published it with a profeffed intention, a premeditated defign of abufing and afperfing the King; if the defendant meant or wished to alienate the affections of his Majefty's fubjects; if it appeared to them that his end in printing it was to ftir up rebellion and commotion, as honeft men they ought, and undoubtedly would, bring his client in guilty: But-if, on the contrary, the temper of the times was fuch, that the people needed that kind of information contained in the letter, if the facts could be proved, if the acts of Government, in which the King, as a of Government, was neceffarily and virpart tually concerned, highly demanded public reprehenfion, and the printer published it with the truly laudable motive of informing his fellow-fubjects; if, fo far from containing any perfonal abuse of the King, it was wrote with an honeft but guarded freedom; the author and publisher would, by all worthy, all fenfible men, be confidered as having acted the parts of good subjects and good citizens.

He informed the Jury, That the Council for the Crown had not gone upon the fubject matter of the letter; they did not even attempt to prove it a libel, notwithftanding the epithets bestowed upon it in the information; and, that the paper in which it was first printed, was not by any means fet apart folely to canvas for party or faction, but was equally open to all: He admitted, that private perfonal abuse was wrong, but the public acts of Government often demanded public fcrutiny; that many, very many of the highest rank, as well as from the higheft to the lowest in the oppofition, had been scandalously traduced and villified in the public papers with impunity; that, if the defendant was brought in guilty, the hands of every publisher would be tied behind him, and the Gentlemen not in office, might by the minifterial feribblers, be abufed to the groffeft degree, as it would be dangerous to answer them, if upon the appearance of every free anfwer, informations were to be filed, and the printers convicted and punished, the liberty of the prefs was immediately concerned, the ftroke was levelled at it in this profecution, but he did not doubt the Jury would maturely, deliberately, and attentively confider the matter, read over the letter with care and circumfpection, and if they found it was not written with intent to vilify the perfon of the King, but freely to canvas the acts of Government, they would confider the publifher as having done his fellow fubjects effential fervice, and acquit him.'

Mr. Serjeant Leigh, the other Council for

the defendant, then got up, and began with obferving that, after the very learned and able fpeech made by his brother Glynn, little remained for him to fay, but he particularly urged the Jury to confider the intention of the printer in publishing it, and to remember how peculiarly neceflary it was, at this juncture, that the prefs fhould be open to all political difcuffion. He defended the paper on the fame principles as Mr. Glynn, and made a very eloquent and judicious harangue, concluding with declaring, that, as intention could be proved, they ought not to find his client guilty.

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Lord Mansfield in his charge told the Jury, That there were only two points for their confideration; the first the printing and publishing the paper in queftion; the second the fenfe and meaning of it: That as to the charges of its being malicious, feditious, &c. they were inferences in law about which no evidence need be given, any more than that part of an indictment need be proved by evidence, which charges, a man with being moved by the inftigation of the devil: That therefore the printing and fenfe of the paper were alone what the Jury had to confider of; and that, if the paper fhould really contain no breach of the law, that was a matter which might afterwards be moved in arreft of judgment: That he had no evidence to fum up to them, as the defendants Council admitted the printing and publication to he well proved: That as to the fenfe, they had not called in doubt the manner in which the difhes in the paper were filled up in the record, by giving any other fenfe to the paffages; if they had, the Jury would have been to confider which application was the true one, that charged in the information, or that fuggefted by the defendant: That the Jury might now compare the paper with the information: That if they did not find the application wrong, they must find the defendant guilty; and if they did find it wrong, they must acquit him: That this was not the time for alleviation or aggravation, that being for future confideration: That every fubject was under the controul of the law, and had a right to expect from it protection for his perfon, his property, and his good name: That if any man offended the laws, he was amenable to them, and was not to be cenfured or punished but in a legal courfe : That any perfon libelled had a right either to bring a civil or a criminal profecution; that in the latter, which is by information or indictment, it is immaterial whether the publication be falfe or true; that it is no defence to fay it is true, because it is a breach of the peace, and therefore criminal; but in

a civil