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POE T S CORNS R.
WERE I permitted rolls,
The sacred anhieves hid beyond the
poles ;
Had I a title, cou’d I make pretence,
To search the awful booh of P,evidence ;
Cou’d I the hidden a&s of fate revise,
And fee the ancient fylils of the (kies ;
The chain of causes cou’d I butdifplay,
And fee how consequences there obey ;
Discover mighty works of majesty,
And know not only what he does, but why.
This (hould be fiift of all that I’d enquire,
And this the utmost bounds of my desire,
Why heaven permits the worf of men to rule,
yind binds the wife man to obey the fool ?
Why he gives power to princes to destroy,
And waste the pleasant world they (hould en
, j°y- , r
Why fame bellows her ill-defer v'd applause,
Where violence triumphs on nature’s laws :
Where j jftice feels th’oppreffive load of mighf,
And usurpation sets her foot on right ;
And hethat’s mightiell ‘grown in lust and
blood, •
Scorns human praise, and claims to rule from
God.
Why heaven provok’d with insults, and with
pride.
Let’s haughty vice the spoils of heaven divide;
And the rewards of virtues are
By him that finks the man to raise the btaft.
Why private miracles concern’d for blood,
AndTecret murders are by heaven purfu’d:
Nature's at wars, and all the brutes combine.
To mix their vengeance with the wrath
divine ;
The secret horror of the bloody fad,
Affifis the malefador to deted ;
The guilty trembling hand, the falt’ring
tongue.
Hurries the vengeance of his crimes along;
The wand’ring fleps the wifh’d-for flight
refufe,
And make the guilty wretch himfe’f accuse ;
Conscience the hated secret will betray,
And make himfelf the debt to justice pay :
Hasten the puniffiment the laws defer,
And make himfelf the executioner ;
Why fhou’d just heaven puriue the junior
crime,
But leave exalted criminals to time I
For princes guided by the gust of power,
In their ambitious heat the world devour.
They that have nations in their lust deftroy’d,
And strove to make the whole creation void ;
That facrifice whole kingdoms to their pride.
Revel in blood, and nature’s spoils divide:
These with impunity in peace remain,
And heav’n seems so far to command in
vain.
In conquest uncontrol’d they tyrannize,
And seas of blood can scarce their third fuf
fice.
Virtue and innocence resist in vain,
Whole nations groan, and injur’d lands coin
plain
The dying breath of millions vengeance calls
And cries of orphans scale the heavenly walls,
Yet deaf and unconcern’d he neut’ral ftards,
Deaf to th’expecling eyes, uplifted hands,
As if he’d bid them not look up to him, *
Referr’d the vengeance back again to them.
Jis their own proper business :
Let them know,
What’s their known duty, he expels they’ll
do : •
He gave them reason to direct the Rate,
And power that rules of power might create ;
He plac’d it as the sovereign tert of law,
That this must drive, where that no more
will draw :
If that a government and throne.
This must when it encroaches pull it down;
Heaven made no kings, ’twas our own ad and
deed,
Heaven pulls none otherwise
decreed :
When he at last to plague the rejlive tribes,
Contents to give a text describe: \
The groaning people, by those Kings oppreft,
Looking in vain to him for liberty and rest,
'Pill mov’d by just complaints he lets them fee,
The work's their own, their reason sets them
free.
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The MASS Al h L ET T S u * aw,
J reason calls to use their liberty.
tic only clear’d their Yng incumber’d fight.
Open'd their fen ft s to their native right;
Taught them wherein obedience did confiftj
Wherein they must obey, and when refill.
Taught them their-uodcr Handing to obey,
Shotf’u them their right, and let them fee the
way,
That cnee to fight does more than (•) twice to
(*) 'Tis hop'd none will be so foolifi or mali
cious to cenfu’e this Jimile, as if 1 despised or
un-iervalued the Agency of prayer; especially
of public humiliations, the thing particularly
meant here.—But it is an exprejfion made use
of to inculcate the neccffity and advantage of
joining our endeavouts in every lawful manner
to our Prayers.
LONDON, Mav 21.
Th: Earl ofC hat ham’s SPEECH, when
be made s motion for the Diflblution of the
present Parliament.
My Lords,
IT is not many years since this nation was
the envy and terror of its neighbours.
Alone and unaflilled it leemed to balance the
half of Europe. Nor was the afpeil of hs
affairs abroad more flattering than at home.
Concord and unanimity prevailed throughout
the whole extent of (he BHtilh empire.
Whatever heats and animosities might sub
sist between the grandees, the body of the
people was fathfied. No complaints, no
murmurs were heard. No petitions, much
less remonstrances, for redress of grievances,
were carried up to the thione; nor were
hired mobs ncccflary to keep the sovereign
in countenance by their venal Ihouts. No
th:ng was heard on every fide but one general
burst of acclamation and joy. But how is
theptofpedl darkened I How are the mighty
fallen I On public days the royal ears are fa
luted with h'fles and hoots ; and he fees libels
against his person and government written
with impunity; juries solemnly acquitting
the publifheis. What greater mortification
can befall a monarch ! Yet this facrifice he
makes to his ministers. To their falfe steps,
not to his own, he owes his disgrace. By
their intrigues the last inglorious peace, the
origin of our evils, was effected, and approved
by parliament, though it was loudly con
demned by the nation. By their intrigues
the last Ihameful convention received the
fame fandion. Were this facrifice of our
honour and interest abroad compensated by
the wiffom of our domestic government, it
would be some comfort.— But the fad is,
that Great-Britain, Ireland, and America,
are equally diflatisfied, with the ministry.
The impolitic taxes laid upon America, and
the system of violence there adopted, have
unfortunately soured the minds of the people
and rendered them difaffecled to the present
parliament, if not to the King. Irc'and has
various reasons to complain. An enumera
tion of them would be tedious. You may
judge of their number and magnitude by the
present flame. The measures taken to carry
the Midd!efex eledion in favour of the court,
the decision of that eledion, the murders in
St. George’s fields, the refufal ot the Com
mons to enquire into these murders, and into
the conduct of those who advised his Ma
jesty to bestow thanks and rewards upon the
persons immediately concerned; the payment
vs the immense debt contraded by the crown,
without infpeding any account; all these cir
cumstances had justly alarmed the nation,
and made them ur.ccmmonly attentive to the
operations of parliament*— Hence the publi
cation cf the parliamentary debates. And
where was the injury, if the members ailed
upon honest principles ? For a public aflem
bly to be afraid of having their deliberations
published, is monstrous, and speaks for itfelf.
No mortal can construe such a proceedure to
their advantage. It, and the prad'ce of
locking the doors, are fufticient to open the
eyes of the blind ; they must fee that all is
not well within. Not fatisfied, however,
with (hutting their doors, the Commons
would overturn the liberty of the press. The
printers had spirit, and refilled. The irri
tated Commons exerted their privilege above
the laws of the land, and their fervantsaded
illegally in the execution of their illegal or
ders. The magiftraces of London uri eitook
(he cause cf the punters, and the pu'Hc
tion of the laws, and of the city’s franchifes.
The Commons (lill proceeded with the fame
Outrageous violence. They called upon ts e
magistrates to judify their conduit and,
would not fufter them to be hcaid by couofel.
These men, who had allowed the prostitute
electors of Shoreham counsel to deler.d a bar
gain to fell their borough wcu d
not grant the fame indulgence to the Loid-
Mayor of London, pleading for the laws of
England, and the contentions dUcharge ot
his duty. Accordingly they committed him
to the Tower, for not violating his oath.
The most sacred obligation of morality and
religion they vote criminal, when it happens
to Hand in competition with their aflumed
privilege. Their next step was the ad of a
mob, and not cf a parliament.--! mean the
recognizance entered at Guildhall. We have
heard of (uth violence committed by the
French King ; and it seems much better cal
culated tor the latitude of Paris than Londcn.
1 he people of this kingdom will never submit
to such bare-faced tyranny. They must fee
that it is time tn .oufe, when their cwn crea
tures dare to aflame a pewer of flopping pro
(ecutions by their vote, and confcquently cf
resolving the law cf (he land into (heir will
and pleasure. The imprudence, and indeed
the abfo.'ute madness of ihefe measures, dc
monftrate that thev are not ihe result of that
aflembly’s calm, unbiafled deliberations,'but
the didates of weak, uninformed miniflers,
influenced by those who mislead the sovereign.
It is impossible .’hat a grave, and once vene
rable body cf men, it left to itfelf, fliould
have conveitcd government into a feuffle
with a single individual. Were the Ccm
mons not absolute (Lvcs to the man who
holds the golden keys of the treasury, they
could never have rendered the very name of
parliament ridiculous, by carrying cn a con
flant war against Mr. Wilkes. To them it
is entirely owing that he is become a person
of ccnfequen.ce in the date. 'They firft
made him representative for Middlesex, and
then aiderman of London. Now they seem
determined to make, him (heriff, and, in due
couife, Lord Mayor.— IVflen he set their
authority at defiance, in the case nf the
printers, they repeatedly declared him ame
nable to their jurifdi&ion, and actually served
him with more than one order to attend.
Upon being found icfradlory, they (hame
fully gave up the point ; after punishing the
chief-magiftrate of the city, they fufFcred
him to escape with impunity, and, in the
face of the world, acknowleged him to be
their lord and matter.
Matters being thus circumstanced, the
Commons being both odious and contempti
ble, there remains, but one poflible remedy
for the evil. In order to save the name and
inftituticn of parliament from ruin, the Com
mons mutt, according to the earnest request
of a majority of the electors of England, and
the with of almost all the nation, be ditfolvcd.
This step may restore good humour and tran
quility on the one hand, and good govern
ment on the other. Not that I imagine this
ad alone fufficient. No; I have no such
sanguine expedition j I fufped it will prove
but a temporary and partial remedy. The
influence of the crown is become so enor
mous, that fomo stronger bulwark must be
ereded for the defence of the constitution.
The ad for conftrtuting septennial parlia
ments must be repealed. Formerly the in
conveniencies attending (hurt parliaments
had great weight with me j but now we arc
not debating upon a question of convenience;
our all is at stake ; our whole constitution is
giving way; and therefore, with the most
deliberate and solemn convidion, I declare
myfelf a convert to triennial parliaments.
Influenced by all thcfe considerations I move
your Lordships to address his Majesty to dis
solve the present parliament, as loon as the
business of the feflion is concluded.
A WOMAN of a good cha
rader, at Charleflown, with a young
Breast of Miik, would be glad to take a
Child to suckle. Enquire of the Printer.
NOR I
dT&A The Schoonrr
HARLE Q.U 1 N,
_ Bound to Cape Feak,
Will fail jn about Ten Davs;
FREIGHTERS will please td
I? ayply to WILLIAM HOSKINS near
Deacon Barrett’s, in Midd'e-Sheet.
To he SOLD, verv reaforabh,
A GENTEEL dwell-
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- venient Garden, Yard and
Putr.p, pleaGntly situated i i
Winter-Street, oppofueto Dr;
Sprague’s. Enquire of the Printer hereof.
DANIEL SCOTTI
At his Med»ciN£-Store, the sign us the
Leopard, South-end,
' jj V KES this method of inferm
-1 ing all Gentlemen, Ladies, and odn r>,
who have had the misfortune to loose their
teeth, that he Ail) continues the bufmefc of
making and fixing of Artificial I EE 1 H as
tifual, in so elegant a manner as to le but lit
tle inferiour to the 1 a ural either in use of
beauty. Where, alfu, all persons cffliclrd
with the feurvy mzy have (hem cleaned with
out hurting the enamel, and be supplied with
his excellent Powder which cuies the Scuivy,
whitens the teeth, and keeps them found
during life : He can zfiure the Public that he
has fie fit instances every day of the good tf
fefls of this powder.
t'aid Scott has for sale. in bottles,
Brigifen’s famous fcLG Liquid,
which effectually destroys thole vermin be
they ever so numeious, without hurting in
the least degree the fineft furnitnre, it has no
fmcll, and a much speedier effedl in its opera
tion (han any heretofore used ; if it is applied
as directed in the printed bill given with each
bottle no bug will come near the btdftead for
years.
Past favours he thankfully acknowledges.
WILLIAM WILLIAMS,
Mathematical Instrument-Maker,
tHas to fell
At his Shop in King-street,
T*wo Doors raft of the
Sign of Admiral Vernon
Near the Head of the
Long Wharf,
BOSTON,
A large Aflbrtment of
HADLEY’s and Davis’s Quad
rants, banging and standing Ccm
pafles in Brass and Wood, Gauging and Sur
veying Instruments, Cases of Inttrumcnts,
large and small Perfpeflive Glaflts in Ivory,
Wood and Fi(h- Skin ; plotting Scales, Gun
ter Scales and Dividers, Surveyours Chains,
Artifical Magnets with Casts, Sand-Glafles,
from two Hours to a Quarter of a Minuts.
Instruments of a new Conftruflion to m<.a
fure Boards, QuarterWaggoner’sjAtkinfoo’r,
Epitomes, Wilson’s ditto, Pattoun’s Naviga
tion, Seaman’s Assistants, Calendars, Mari
ner’s Compafies rectified,Young Man’s Com
panion, Journal Bocks, Ink Powder, Quills
and Paper,Paper-Hangings. An Afluitment
ofßrafs Pocket-Ccmpafles withand without
Cards, Box Rules, Slates and Pencils, Jack-
Knives,plated Shoe and Knee Buckles,Pinch
beck, Block-Tin, and Brass ditto, Compass
Seals, and Watch Keys, &c. &c.
N. B. Said Williams makes and mends
all forts of Mathematical Instruments.
Fifteen Inch PIPES,
By ihe box or gross, to be fold bv
ARCHd. CUNNINGHAM,
At his (hop in Fore-street,
Near the Diaw Bridge, Boston. Also,
BLACK Silk Handkerchiefs, by
the firgle dezen or larger quantity, very
cheap ; Bohea Tea. by the hundred or dozen
warranted good ; choice Hyfon Tea at four
dollars the pound, and Souchong Tea at tu o
dollars the pound, choice Currants by the
hundred weight, Logwood by the hundred
weight.
Aujuft 8.