The exulting drops that copious flow,
From conscious sense of soften'd woe;
From FREEDOM, at the Prisoner's door,
Shouting "Captivity's no more."
From BOUNTY, visiting the spot
Where PENURY had seiz'd the Cot;
From PLEASURE's gay and blythe rebound,
Spreading the CHARITIES around;

From the light dance of generous MIRTH,
That bears a faggot to the hearth;
Not noisy sounds of emptiness;
Nor pomps, that aiding the distress,
Waste bounty's lamp in idle glare,
A pageant for the desert air,

But the kind blaze, that shall impart
A genial comfort to the heart;
One transient JUBILEE, to cheer

The Winter of the poor Man's year

ALL THESE, unanimous, their Wreaths will twine, In offerings meet to grace a Nation's shrine!

Then let me breathe the heart-felt lay

That all a Nation CAN display,

That all which may most wisely prove
A generous People's long-tried love;
For long-tried, equitable sway,
Where" to enjoy is to obey;"

For countless Centuries to come,
May rear the Throne and fix a home!

Such bliss for thee-O eyer-cherish'd Isle,
Left with a sigh, and welcomed with a smile;
Through life has been, and still shall be my care;
My fondest hope, and my impassion'd prayer!

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APPENDIX,

Explanation and Reference to Hamilton's Map of Chelsea, made in the year 1664, and continued to the year 1717, by John King, D.D., late Rector of Chelsea; faithfully copied from his original Manuscripts in the Possession of the Hon. and Rev. Gerald Valerian Wellesley, Rector of Chelsea.

The reference commences at the north-eastern extremity, and proceeds to the western boundary of the parish.

THIS first division contains that part of Blackland's next Knightsbridge. The scale is allowing 20 poles to an inch. This and the following maps agree with the same scale, and are drawn from Mr. Hamilton's Survey, 1664.

The seventh parcel of ground is Mr. Calloways, rented by John Wigsden, and sowed. It was formerly called Flounder Field, or Quail Close.

It contains, according to the Survey, 16 acres and 29 poles; but pays only 14 acres, plowed and sowed.

This division contains three parcels of land, lying south of the former; they belong to my Lord Cheyne, and are rented by the widow Salisbury, of Cabbage Land, Westminster.

The easternmost Field contains

The next to that

The most westerly contains

4 3 2

1 10

The whole of the three Closes of this Map contain 21

The part of East Field, north of the Queen's Road, will be reckoned in the map that is part of the same field south of the Queen's Road.

This division contains the west part of Blacklands adjoining to Chelsea Common. They are divided into three parts:

1. Wiltshire's, formerly Widow Buckmaster's,

706 400

3. Contains 20 2 2, and is divided into many parcels. Blackland's House and Gardens contain two acres and a half

Total of this map

22 2 0

33 2 6

1

This division contains Chelsea Common, which is in all 37 acres, 7 poles; but the gravel-pits, pond, the cottage, and poor-houses taken out of it, as also the ways, it will amount to about 33 acres.

It is a pasturage for 40 cows and 20 heifers, and the right of common belongs to these particulars, exempt from all others:

1. Lord Cheyne, for a farm

2. Lady Lindsey, for her house

3. Lord Wharton, or his tenant, for a tenement

4. The Rector, for the parsonage and glebe 5. Mr. Bell, late Plunket's, three cottages

6. Mr. Harris, for late Dog, now Waterman's Court

7. Mr. Joseph Nicols, for two cottages upper end of Church Lane

S. Late Mr. Bennet, Mr. Mart has the land and Mr. Newdick has the farm house; query whose right

9. Mr. Kendall, for the Feathers, late Preston's 10. Mr. Wollaston, for Mr. Woodcock's, late Sir J. Alstone's

11. Mr. Goodwin, for the Magpye

There is also contained two parcels of the east field, north