Say, does thy Jeffy ever charm, Or thy affections hold. Yes! colder is thy Willy's breast, Than winter's coldeft fnow; And death those ice-cold lips hath kiss'd, "Know'st thou that skull, that long was laid Beneath the mould'ring clay? "That is thy Willy's well-known head!" -She shriek'd-he died away. The cock fhrill crew,-away he flew, Through the dim mifts of dawn; And Jeffy's Ghoft foon follow'd too, By foft attractions drawn. Oft fitting on an ev'ning cloud, These true-love Ghosts are seen, Or wrapt amid their misty shroud, They ikim the moonlight green. GALLOVIDIENSIS, Banks of Ken, July 14. ODE FOR THE NEW YEAR, 1797. Ο 'ER the vex'd bofom of the deep, When, rushing wild with frantic hafte, The winds, with angry pinions, sweep The furface of the wat'ry waste; Tho' the firm veffel proudly brave The inroad of the giant wave, Tho' the bold Seaman's firmer foul Views, unappall'd, the mountains roll; Yet ftill along the murky fky, Anxious, he throws th' inquiring eye, If, haply, thro' the gloom that round him lowrs, Shoots one refulgent ray, prelude of happier hours. So Albion, round her rocky coaft While loud the rage of battle roars, Derides Invafion's haughty boast, Safe in her wave-encircl'd Shores; Still fafer in her dauntlefs band, Deaf to the fhrieks of agonizing woe, Views with rapacious eye each neighb'ring fhore; Mine be th' infernal fway,' aloud he cries, 'Where'er my Sword prevails, my conqu’ring Banner flies.' Genius of Albion, hear! Grafp the strong fhield, and lift th' a- By wreaths thy dauntlefs Sons of yore Call forth thy Warrior Race again, To arms, to arms, your enfigns straight difplay! Now fet the battle in array; The Oracle for War declares, Success depends upon our hearts and fpears! ⚫ Britons, ftrike home, revenge your Coun try's wrongs, Fight and record yourselves in Druids* Songs!' Lords of her Seas, or Guardians of her A comlier face was never fene For the wished to ruin her goode Lady, So traitory stories fhe often wolde telle, He writhed his minde baith back and fro, For he wished to ha that wily knight Who crackened his wifes falfe vow. And he offered to them whoever wolde telle Who this knight fholde be That wroght him wrothe in his castle, Gladd was the Maide when she did find I come frae your wife as I ha life, Speik on, speik on, my Maiden dear, Shottin frae a truftie bowe; For liken till, whilk alway doth scathe, She fped to her myftreffe er for to telle, A fals leafinge taile of her owne dear knight, Which you fhalle quickely heere. "O! Lady, quoth fhee, what I fpeik to "thee "Leeve it is very truei ; "This eene thy knight at eventide "I trow another will wuoi. "O! wo, tell you, quoth the Knights "Ladye, "Gramercye on your poor foule ; A boone thou fhalle ha, and to boote I "O Ladye dear, as I hope to ha feere, wille grant Muche goulde and goode cuntrie. O! nere will I flepe till I ha wrecked My fweards point in his bluide, "O Sir, quoth the Maiden, he is nae "knight, "But a man of lowe degree, “And when the funne is Дepein owre the "hill, "At thy Ladyes bowre windowe hele "bee, "Ycladd in your best graine doublett, "And your hod he is bedight, "To make the folke thinke he is Sir Hugh, "And not a stranger knight.". Now anger and crumpling jeeloufie Did our knight's harte torment, He fwore to the Maiden by the Holy-roode That his fere he wolde ha brent. "Helle take thee thou carlish theefe "To nighte I wroken fhall bee "Bathe of the and my aine false wife "That I once loved tenderlie." The knight he ftriken his heid and his brieft, And moned most wofullye ; "The hower I am going to dye, "It is not falfe, but truei as I live, "What I ha telled to thee. And mare at nicht theye ha agreede "In your best bowere to meete; "To paffe the time unkenned to you, "And brok with kiffes sweete." Fair Ella was grieved to the hartes life, She vowed to faint John that if it be so Heere, fayde the Muiden, tak my cleadinge, And till your lyttle bowere hye; Thrueghe the window fecritlye. They futhe hadd changedd ether cleading The myftreffe the maidens did weare; And proud was the falfe one fo bedeckid, All in her Ladyes geer. This wicked jaide had thereto biddenn They They all beene com, and the knyghte alfo, Undir the greenwoode tre, He ftopped awhile with his fweard in his hand, Till he his fere might fee. The Maiden to the windowe did goe, And fhowe her face to the carlifh man, The Knighte for to begyle. The Knight when he saw his Ladyes face At the fame tyme, all in the towere, But infteede of the Myftreffe the man did ftrik The Maiden a wofull blow. Sir Hugh cummin in to catche on his wife, Once Venus forrowing traced, as all for She fought Adonis, when a lurking thorn Deep in her foot imprefs'd an impious wound; Then prone to earth we bow'd our pallid flow'rs, And caught the drops divine; the purple dyes Tinging the luftre of our native hue. "Ho mercye, ha mercye, fayde the Maid-, Nor fummer-gales, nor art - conducted "O! then Sir Knighte, your Ladye deer "The carle was to ha flayne, In hope that when you loft your fere "Or if he had not killed been, "Your harte with falfinge tailles of her, "And fo to ha her brent." The Ladye all this while ftoode bye, Here tak thy Lady goode Sir Hugh, fhow'rs, Have nurs'd our flender forms, but lovers' fighs Have been our gales, and lovers' tears our dew. SAPPHO AND PHAON; BY MRS ROBINSON. SONNET VI Characteristics of Love. TS it to love, to fix the tender gaze, To hide the timid blush, and steal away; To fhun the busy world, and waste the day In fome rude mountain's folitary maze; Is it to chant one name in ceafeless lays, To hear no words that other tongues can fay, To watch the pale moon's melancholy ray, To chide in fondnefs, and in folly praife? Is it to pour th' involuntary figh, To dream of blifs, and wake new pangs to prove; To talk, in fancy, with the fpeaking eye, Then ftart with jealoufy, and wildly rove; Is it to loath the light, and wish to die? For thefe I feel,-and feel that they are Love. SONNET SONNET XX. SONNET XLI. To Phaon. H! I could toil for thee o'er burning OH! plains; Refolves to take the leap of Leucata. Could fimile at poverty's difaftrous blow; YES, I will go, where circling whirlwinde With thee, could wander 'midst a world rife, Where threat'ning clouds in fable gran deur lour; Where the blast yells, the liquid columns pour, And madd'ning billows combat with the fkies! There, while the Dæmon of the tempest flies On growing pinions through the troub lous hour, The wild waves gasp impatient to devour, And on the rock the waken'd Vulture cries! Oh! dreadfui folace to the ftormy mind! To me, more pleasing than the valley's rest, The woodland fongfters, or the fportive kind, That nip the turf, or prune the painted creft; For in defpair alone, the wretched find That unction fweet, which lulls the bleeding breast! PROCEEDINGS OF THE FIRST SESSION OF THE EIGHTEENTH PARLIAMENT OF GREAT BRITAIN. HOUSE OF COMMONS Oct. 31. 1796. MR PITT moved the refolution to discharge the Navy and Treafury Bills, amounting to 11,993,1671. 19s. 6d. by funding the fame. Mr Fox, in a long speech, oppofed the motion, repeating his objections to the funding of fo large a fum, and faying, that by a calculation he had made fince the laft difcuffion of the fubject, he found the intereft that would be gained by fome of the holders of the bills, would be not at the rate, as he first thought, of 103 but even of 1351. per cent. per an Mr Curwen objected to the principle and operation of the Bill. The oftenfible motives alledged for the adoption of thefe meafures, he faid, proceeded from the declaration in the Royal Speech relative to an invafion; but of the grounds for that belief the Houfe had not been furnished with any information: the real object, he suspected, was to revive the fyftem of alarm, to extend the influence of Minifters, and to draw from the pockets of the people a few more millions of their money; as by the lowest eftimate the burthen created by this plan would coft three millions. Mr Pitt called to the recollection of the House the unanimous pledge they had given, to neglect no precautions to carry into effect the recommendation from the Throne. At that period he ftated his conviction that the neceffity. was not only exifting, but the preffure extremely great. If any thing had been wanting to add to that conviction, every communication that had been received in the interval confirmed that fentiment of in-. evitable neceffity; and eftablished his perfect conviction with a view to the object itfelf, and the danger and impracticability of entering into a difclofure of the circumftances that induced that conviction. The danger was in deed deed imminent, and if we exerted our energy as a nation, it was not yet too late; but he should be wanting in his duty to his Sovereign, to his country, and himself, did he not warn them againft the unavoidable confequence of fleeping upon their arms. No material inconvenience could arife from precaution, but irretrievable ruin might be produced from neglect. After the great ftrength given in 1794 to the military establishment, he thought that might have been fufficient, being convinced there was a general and univerfal affection to the Constitution, not only at this day, but at the commencement of the war. So far from believing there were eighty thousand in corrigible Jacobins, as had been faid (alluding to fome expreffions in Mr Burke's late Letters,) he did not believe there was one. But if to think the war was an unjustifiable war, and that Mini fters had conducted feebly what they had undertaken rafhly and ignorantly; and if to believe that till there was a change in men and measures, and fome great reform, there was no hope for profperity to this country-if this was to be an incorrigible Jacobin, he was one, and inftead of 80,000, he wifhed there were eight millions. If the Right Hon. Gentleman would fay there was real danger of invafion of Britain, he would not oppose the raifing of the Militia. If any other part of the King's dominions were in danger, Minifters fhould ftate it; for the efforts neceffary to be exerted for one were not the fame as for the other. Mr Fox profeffed himself cordially difpofed to agree, that for the defence of the country in the hour of danger we muft look to the zeal of the people, and their warm attachment to the Conftitution. Should an invasion be ferioufly attempted, he would agree with the Minifter in calling on the people to collect, and urge all their exertions to fruftrate the rafh attempt, to rouze and put forth all their energies, both of body and of mind, and raise both their arms and their hearts to crush the infolent temerity of the invading foe. But he would likewife call on them to exercife their judgment as well as their va lour; and after their courage had ref cued their country from the danger that is now fuppofed to threaten it, he would as eagerly call on them to evince their civil powers, in vindicating the rights and privileges to which the Conftitution entitled them, and rendering truly va luable what they had fo nobly struggled to preserve. And indeed to what purpose would they have gallantly fought to fave the country from the French, if they did not afterwards fecure the Conftitution from the encroachments of the Miniftry, and retrieve it from the violence they had fo wantonly offered it ?It was not against foreign enemies only that the people should be vigilant, they should alfo be watchful and alert, to mark the conduct of their domeftic enemies. Mr Pitt repeated the affurance, that the ferious apprehenfion of an invafion (really intended) had been confirmed by fubfequent information; to particula rife which information he did not hold to be his duty. But that there was ferious danger of an attack being made on fome part or other of our territory, and that fuch was now the intention of the enemy, he had well-grounded reasonTM to affirm; but where that particular part was, how to adopt a particular mode of defence, where a diverfion might be made, and where a real attack, it was not in his power exactly to fpecify, or deliver any professed opinion upon. The danger he knew to be ferious and alarming enough to make us look on every fide for fecurity, and he fhould be wanting in his duty to his King and Country not to apprize them of it. But it was not in foreign and very diftant parts of our poffeffions that we were fo much to dread the attack, as nearer home; for he would take it on him to fay, that the enemy's views were fixed on parts of his Majefty's Furopean dominions, little inferior in importance to the island we inhabit. As he faw the Houfe full, he was the more eager to prefs the neceffity of paffing the Bills as speedily as pofible; and he had endeavoured to frame them in a manner as. fhort and fimple as he could, that they might meet with no delay from minute amendments and detailed difcuffions. The firft of the Bills only would he pafs through the Committee this night. The House then went through the feveral claufes of the Bill, with amend ments. The only material alteration in the Bill was, that the fubftitutes are not to be taken from the diftrict, but from the county; but not, as Mr Pitt exprefsly ftipulated, "from any county adjoining." Some |