The GLUTTON. ATALI.

WICKED corm'rant who, each

A meal,

Cou'd eat fix pounds of beef or veal,
One ev'ning in a tavern larder,
Of which he was a nice regarder,
Fix'd on a bouncing cod his eyes,
Might half a fcore at least fuffice :
Here, cook, let this be ready made.
What all, Sir! All, except the head.
It quickly comes in butter fwimming,
And, troth, he gave it hearty trimming,
But e'er the difh was wholly clean'd,
He puff'd, and fwell'd, and backward
lean'd.

[ing,

The waiters thought him furely dy-
And fend for a physician flying.
He comes, and orders clyfters plenty,
Hoping by these his cafk to empty :
The cafe, howe'er, feem'd defp'rate still,
So all advis'd-to make his will.
And fhall I call a priest? No, lad,
I hope my cafe is not fo bad;
And yet I'm fomewhat out of breath,
Well if I needs muft yield to death,
To die quite fatisfy'd I'd wish,
So-bring the remnant of my fish.

From the Westminster Journal.

On the DEATH of Dr. BARROW BY, late Phyfician to St. Bartholomew's Hofpital. (See Mag. for Dec. laft, p. 573.)

AIL Science! eldest daughter of the [waste Where was thy foft recefs; where didft thou The lazy hour, when Barrowby expir'd? Drove from the fhades of Cos, what

[veal'd e'er, infus'd From thee, fage-worn Hippocrates reTo an admiring world, was ftrangely loft: But Aretaus, the dogmatick skill Relumin'd; Pergamus her Galen gave, And then the medicinal art, confin'd To rigid rule, like a fick taper dimm'd Th' exploring eye; till, by Arabian toil, The Gallick fearch, and what divinely

flow'd

[throne

From Harvey's nobler foul, we saw thy Magnificently rais'd; where late thy fon, Lamented Barrowby, prefided; where He feem'd a guardian-angel to mankind.

Bleft be each fair aufpicious hour, that brings

To birth fome happy genius, to adorn, To comfort, and affift the race of men, Thro' the Dædalian thorny paths of life: Bleft be the memory of ev'ry fage,

Each fon of wisdom, and each friend of art, Whofe gen'rous labours, like the genial fhow'r,

That fwells the vernal tribute of the year,

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Stream copious, where Neceffity would

hide

Her tim'rous head, or Modesty would

eye,

Shuts up the ear of Pity, and difdains Affliction's plaintive voice, if Poverty Has caft her tatter'd mantle o'er the bed; Why fhould the learned monster share applaufe,

Or find encouragement? But where the ray Dropt from Urania warms the gen'rous foul:

Where the good heart benevolently Atrives
To minifter affiftance, when Diftrefs
Implores the charitable hand; when men,
Like Barrowby, all amiably shine,
Difpenfing, like the delegates of heaven,
The cherub comfort to the fleeting foul:
Thefe are thy fav'rites, Science! these thy
fons.

But ah! who can repel the mace of
Death?

Tremendous fergeant, rudely thy arreft
Has dragg'd our lov'd Machaon to the
[pow'r ?
grave.
Where, Pharmacy, was then thy facred
What, could no fov'reign herb, no healing
juice,

Or medicinal drug, close up the wound? Vain, vain, the boafted knowledge of mankind!

What know we but our own infirmity ? Experience ftill confirms th' important

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dwells

Each fage, Antiquity delights to own.

On Reading R. BARCLAY's APOLOGY, for the true CHRISTIAN DIVINITY. -Optima fæpe defpecta.

IF

F truth divine e'er flow'd from mortals pen, [men ! It flow'd from thine, O Barclay, best of Such facred truths are urg'd with so much force [courfe! Throughout thy folid, well-compos'd difWith what a ftrength of elocution fraught, What eafy language, and what depth of thought! [hines, Ah! how the scholar and the christian While fenfe and judgment spread their copious mines! [free; Thy diction clear, thy ftile from taint is Criticks may pry, but can no blemish see. "Could pride impartial ftoop to read thee [more."

o'er,

"Twould curb its folly, and be proud no Truth warm'd thy breast, indiff'rent of applaufe, [caufe!

O dauntless champion in thy Maker's Thou iffu'dft forth, when fuperstition reign'd [explain'd.

And when dark fouls dark mysteries Ignorance long had travers'd claffick ground,

Till Barclay rofe, delufion to confound; He thro' the chaos fent the gospel ray, And clear'd the paffage to the realms of day.

O! bleft inftructor of my tender youth, Thou fafe afylum to the courts of truth! All tranfient pleasures lofe their fatal force, Subdu'd by thy all powerful discourse. No longer now I with the thoughtless stray,

No longer wanton debonair and gay;
No longer trifling follies can engage,
Nor can I mix with a degen'rate age;
Who follow phantoms, which before 'em
fly,

Mock at their grasp, or in poffeffion die.
Let others fuch delufive blifs pursue,
Far nobler objects animate my view,
Thofe that fhall charm, when glitt'ring
meteors fail,

Which time can't vary, fraud nor art affail; But fixt and conftant ever will remain, Devoid of forrow, and exempt from pain. And if my foul that diftant port should gain, [main; One with, one only with, would yet reThat Barclay there my raptur'd eyes may meet,

To hail me welcome to that bleft retreat; Where kindred fpirits, joys fucceffive share, Beyond conception, and beyond compare. EUSEBIUS.

EPITHALAMIUM.

On a late HAPPY MARRIAGE.

W

HEN Hymen once the mutual bands has wove, [love, Exchanging heart for heart, and love for The happy pair, with mutual blifs elate, Own to be fingle's an imperfect state. But when two hearts united thus agree With equal fenfe, and equal conftancy, This, HAPPINESS, is thy extreameft goal, 'Tis marriage both of body, and of foul; 'Tis making heav'n below with matchless love, [above.

And's a fair step to reach the heav'n An ELEGIACK MONODY: Upon hearing of the DEATH of the Hon. THOMAS LEE, Efq; Commander in Chief and Prefident of bis Majefty's Council in Virginia. By an Acquaintance lately come over from thence. S Lee fnatch'd from us? Is his foul then filed? [dead. Too fure, alas! He's number'd with the Thrice direful tidings! Never did demife Shudder this fyftem with more fad surprise. Who at the baleful found but must lament? Let, then, th' invading anguish strait have

Is

vent.

Let me in honeft, tho' in artless verse, The gloomy picture of my mind rehearse; The energy and force of what I feel, Shall make atonement for my want of skill. For one like him, with fuch a godlike breast, Where all the virtues ftrongly were im

prefs'd,

[show;

'Tis not enough to mourn in outward "Tis not enough to put on fable woe: More folid marks of poignant grief are due To him, I lov'd fo well, and fo well knew: Not from the drefs, but from the lab'ring heart,

Let me the forrow of a friend impart :
His publick lofs while all Virginia share,
Oh, let my plaintive accents rend the air.
Ye lovers of mankind, in chains, or free,
Ye patriot spirits, come and wail with me:
Can you the fympathetick figh forbear
For him, whofe country was his fav'rite
care?
[aid,

Ye fons of learning, lend your mournful
Blend too with mine your forrows for his
fhade;
[fefs'd,
For oh, he lov'd the arts himself pof-
And all the patron ftood in him confefs'd.
Ye tender husbands, and indulgent fires,
Or you whom charity, or friendship fires,
In wretched concert, weeping, let us pay
The dol'rous tribute to his honour'd clay
On forrow's name united let us call
For him who fhone a pattern of them all.
Ah! why was not fuch rarely-gifted worth
Exempted from the common lot of earth?
Since then he's gone, and vain is his return,
My grief fhall take my future life to mourn.
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WEDNESDAY, 8.

This afternoon, the Rt. worshipful Sir Thomas Salisbury, Knt. doctor of laws, took his feat at Doctors-commons, as judge of the high court of admiralty of England. (See Mag. for 1751, p. 525.) The ceremony obferved on this occafion was as follows: At his first entry into the court alone, he was faluted by all the doctors prefent, who had been there fome time before to wait his coming: He then took his chair, when Dr. Pinfold, jun. who is advocate-general to the lord high admiral of England, prefented Sir Thomas with his patent under the great feal, appointing him judge of that court, which he delivered to the register, who read the fame; which being done, he took the oaths of allegiance and fupremacy, in the prefence of the whole court; that being done, Sir Thomas appointed furrogates and officers, and the court was adjourned to Feb. 18, at the feffions house in the Old-Bailey, for the trials of feveral pirates. He then left the court, having the filver oar carried before him. THURSDAY, 9.

The Rt. Hon. the houfe of peers ordered an addrefs of condolence to be prefented to his majesty, on the death of the queen of Denmark: To which his majefty returned the following answer, viz. That he thanked them for the kind concern they had expreffed for the great lofs which he had fuftained, and had the justeft fenfe of this fresh mark of their zeal and duty to him, and of their affection for his family.

FRIDAY, 10.

One Stroud, who under various characters, and many different names, had defrauded divers perfons, was tried and found guilty before the bench of justices at Westminster-hall. He had formerly enjoy'd a very plentiful fortune, which he fpent, and then had recourse to sharping, in order to fupport his extravagancies: He had taken in a taylor for a fuit of velvet cloaths trimmed with gold; a jeweller for upwards of 100l. in rings and gold watches, which he pawned; a coachmaker for a chaife; a carver and a cabinet-maker, for houshold furniture; a hofier, a fhoe-maker, a hatter, and one of almost every branch of business, to the amount of gool. He fometimes tricked in the character of a gentleman, attended with livery fervants; at other times he appeared in the character of a gentleman's fteward; and there is scarcely any character he did not perfonate, in order to defraud, as appeared by the evidence in court.

SATURDAY, 11.

The faid infamous villain recetved the following remarkable fentence, viz. to be committed to Tothillfields Bridewell to hard labour for fix months, and within that time to be fix times publickly whipt, viz. on Jan. 16, from the end of Naffauftreet, in Gerrard-street, to the end thereof next Prince's-street, and back again; on Feb. 15, from the Admiralty coffee-house by Charing-Crofs to the Meufe-Gate; on March 16, from the corner of the Haymarket, thro' Pall-Mall, to the turning into St. James's-fquare; on April 20, from James-ftreet in Long-Acre, to the end of the faid Long-Acre next St. Martin's-lane; on May 23, from the end of Bridge's-ftreet, thro' Ruffel-ftreet, to the end next Covent-Garden; and on June 24, from the White Bear-Inn in Piccadilly, along the said street to St. James's church. When he received his fentence, he pleaded that in his infancy he had the misfortune of having his back broke, which rendered that part of him fo weak that he could not fupport the punishment; but he was told, that nothing could fuperfede the confideration of his being publickly exposed for such flagrant crimes.

MONDAY, 13.

The 4 following malefactors were this day executed at Tyburn, viz. James Macknamar, for a burglary; Ruffel Parnell, for robbing Jofeph Charles Lyre of a metal watch and 27s. in Goodman'sfields; Rachel Beacham, for the murder of Henrietta Daws, a child about 4 years old, by inhumanly cutting her throat out of revenge to the girl's mother, with whom the had had a quarrel; and John Dickenfon, for robbing his master, Mr. Knowles, a coal-dealer in the Little OldBailey, of about 50l. (See their condemnation at the Old-Bailey in our Mag. for Dec. laft, p. 571.) William Hughes, condemned at the fame time, for robbing Mr. Anfell of 6s. near Acton, was reprieved for transportation for life. TUESDAY, 14.

His majefty in council was pleafed to appoint the following fheriffs for the year 1752, viz. for Berks, John Price, of the Ham, Efq;-Bedf, Tho. Gilpin, Efq; -Bucks, John Briftow, Efq;-Cumb. Sir George Dalfton, Bart.-Chefh. Sir Richard Brooke, Bart.-Camb. and Hunt. Richard Aftell, Efq; Cornwall, John Truren, Efq; Devon, George Furfdon, Efq;Dorfet. Thomas Ryves, Efq; - Derbysh. John Lowe, Efq; - Effex, Sir Edmund Allen, Bart.-Glou. John Beale, Efq;Hertf. Benedict Ithell, Efq; - Heref. Sir John Morgan, Bart. Kent, Sir John Honeywood, Bart.-Leicest. Tho. Boothby

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