Fierce thro' the devious wood,
The lion, gaunt with hunger, fcours;
The defert trembles as he roars,
Invoking heaven for food.

But foon as fprings the rofeate dawn,
To gild with light the verdant lawn,
The growling monsters fly;
Heaven-taught, they fhun the ways of men,
And, ftretch'd along th' enfanguin'd den,
In horrid flumbers lie.

We are next presented with a tranflation of the Cyclops of Theocritus, which is unequally done. In the following lines, however, the uncouth Lover expoftulates with his Nymph, in a manner not unentertaining; and the argument in the laft verfe, proves that the honeft Cyclops, though fo deeply in love, was no fool.

I guefs, dear Nymph, the caufe of all your fcorn,
No winning charms my homelier face adorn ;
One black continued arch from ear to ear
My eyebrow fpreads, horrid with fhaggy hair;
And itern the ball, that folitary glows
Amid my front; and flat and large my nofe.
But, tho' my features are not form'd for love,
Vaft is my wealth, and furely wealth may move.

This paftoral, which abounds with elegant defcription, and exhibits a natural picture of the paffion of love, was addreffed by Theocritus to one of his medical friends, and its end was to prove, that, in love-complaints, there was no phyfic equal to melody and fong. Agreeably to which we find the poor Cyclops much better towards the end of his ditty, comforting himfelf with the hopes of obtaining a land Nymph at least, if his falt-water Love fhould reject him. What fay you, Lovers! is there not fome truth to be collected from this fable?

After this tranflation appears another, of the fifty-fixth Ode of Anacreon; we believe this Ode is fpurious; but whether the original be genuine or not, the tranflation merits no farther mention.

The Ode to a Guardian Angel, which follows this, is an original performance. The fubject is capable of many beauties; but the Poet has uttered nothing upon it either beautiful or new, fo that here we have no room to praise the fertility of his imagination.

In the Elegy entitled Rural Happiness, he has fucceeded better.

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Around, in profpect wide,

The fubject meads and forefts lie,
And rivers, that forget to glide,
Reflecting bright th' inverted fky;

And mingled cottages appear,

Where Sleep his genuine dew beftows;
And young Content, a cherub fair,
Still fmooths the pillow of Repofe.

Here Peace and heaven-born Virtue reign
Unrival'd: on the margin green
Of curled rill, in grove, or plain,

The fmiling pair is ever feen.

The negative happiness of rural life, and its exemption from thofe evils that are found in the public and promifcuous commerce of men, gave the Author an opportunity of delineating those paffions that are so destructive of human happiness :

Av'rice, with fancy'd woes forlorn,
Meagre his look, and mantle rude;
And blear-ey'd Envy, inly torn

By the fell worm that drinks his blood.

Mistaken Jealoufy, that weeps

O'er the pale corfe himself has gor'd;
And dire Revenge, that never fleeps,

Still calls for blood, ftill wakes the fword.

Reftlefs Ambition, ftalking o'er

Th' affrighted globe: whene'er he frowns,
Subverted monarchies deplore

Their flaughter'd Kings and blazing towns.

Loud Difcontent, and dumb Defpair;
Sufpicion glancing oft behind;

And flighted Love, with frantic air,
Blafpheming Heaven and ftars unkind

Thrice happy Swains! your filent hours
Thefe midnight furies ne'er moleft;
Furies, that climb the loftieft towers,

And rend the gorgeous Sultan's breast.

The verses fent to the Reverend Mr. Haggit, with a book of Heraldry, are of the epigrammatic kind

'Twas once obferv'd (as story fays)
To Philip's warlike son;

"While all in purple, garments shine.
Antipater has none."

The King reply'd, "By rich attire,
grace let others win;

" Our

" He,

"He, tho' in humble vesture clad,

"Is purple all within."

'Tis Guillim's cafe: a cover fair

He values not a pin;

For, tho' in tatter'd binding clad,

He's grandeur all within.

Here the epigram might have ended; but the Author has added the following stanza :

Hard fate! that he, who gives to all

Arms, motto, creft, what not?

That he, great fource of honour, 's doom'd

Himfelf to want a coat.

There are fome spirited lines in the little poem On the Death of a notorious Bawd:

MOLL KING'S no more!-Prepare, ye fiends below!.
To make your fires with tenfold ardour glow;
Heap on the fulphur blue, and bid the bellows blow.
MOLL KING'S no more!-malignant fame around,
With raven-voice proclaims the dismal found:
Each batter'd Templar, fmit with boding fears,
Her flapping pinions at his casement hears;
And, wildly starting, drops the lifted dofe,
His flacken'd fingers trembling for his nose.

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Dr. Rock is one of the chief Mourners on this melancholy, occafion:

And well her tragic fate may wound his foul,
Whofe orgies taught his rapid wheels to roll.
Around her grave, by blufhing Cynthia's ray,
Lafcivious Pan, and frolic fatyrs play:
Brifk fluttering fparrows chirp, and bill around;
And toads engender on the tainted ground.

There hot Eringoes rife

Next follow fome verfes on an old Maid who chewed Tobacco, which we do not admire; and a Riddle, which we have not read,

Mr. Fofter's poem on the Birth of the Prince, ranks with the Oxford and Cambridge verfes on the fame occafion: (fee Review for January laft.) As foon as this Prince was born, the nightingale forgot that fhe had been robbed of her young, and fell to finging; the rivers flowed with milk, honey dropped from the oaks, and the clustering fruits cried, come and eat us.

This is not the only indifferent poem that Mr. Hoyland has imprudently admitted into his collection. It is followed by fome filly Pfalms, written by one J. Cayley, A M. who, envying

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the fame of Sternhold and Hopkins, cruelly refolves to pluck the laurel from their brows, and to place it upon his own. This refolution he has even declared in an advertisement, wherein he fignifies his intention of tranflating the whole book of Pfalms to be fung or faid in churches. Specimen.

O happy man! who, free from vice,

With cautious fear has trod,

Whom finners never could entice

To make a mock of God!

Would nine, would nine hundred fuch Poets make one Tate?

Smuggling laid open, in all its extenfive Branches; with Proposals for the effectual Remedy of that most iniquitous Practice: Comprebending, among other Particulars, the Parliamentary Evidence of fome of the most notorious Smugglers; and a large Sheet, fhewing, in one View, the whole State of the Tea Importation, Confumption, and Revenue, from Midfummer 1745, (when the Reduction of Two Shillings per Pound took place) to new Christmas 1763. 8vo. 4s. fewed. Owen.

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HE profeffed defign of this publication, is to fuggeft the means by which the Revenue may be improved; Merchants and Traders put upon a fair and equal footing; and thoufands of public robbers reclaimed from their dangerous practices, and rendered ufeful members of fociety: a delign truly laudable; efpecially at this juncture, when, as the Editor obferves, the enormity of the national debt, the abfolute neceffity of immediately reducing it, and the methods of doing it with certainty, are become objects of the most interesting confi deration.

How far this work may be of ufe towards accomplishing fo defirable an end, we cannot take upon us to fay: that it fets forth a number of abuses, however, which ought long finte to have been remedied, is very evident, as well as that the removal of fuch abuses must have been attended with very falutary confequences, both to the fair trader and the public.

The first part of this collection contains two Reports made in March 1745, and in June 1746, to the House of Commons, by the Committee appointed to enquire into the caules of fmuggling &c.

Stephen Theodore Janffen, Efq;

In the fecond, we have feveral interefting letters to the Lords of the Treafury, and to the Commiffioners of the Customs, concerning the practices of fmuggling, carried on, and the outrages committed, in the Ifle of Man." In which Reports and Letters, with the papers thereto annexed, the Reader will find (to use the words of the preface) an abundance of particulars not only new, but useful and curious. He will fee in what manner the laws, for levying the taxes, and guarding against frauds, have been fuffered, for a long course of years, to be trampled upon, to the manifeft detriment of the fair Trader: the very affecting diminution of the revenue; and the utter difgrace of government. He will fee, with aftonishment, thofe laws violated by avowed and open acts of force. He will fee too many inftances of the infringement of thofe laws, through the fraudulent connivance of thofe very Officers who were appointed to fecure the ftrict obfervance of them. In a word, he will fee the revenue plundered in fo bare-faced a manner, and in such a variety of fhapes, that he will be ftruck with amazement, that practices fo oppofite to all principles of government, and pregnant with evils of fuch fatal confequence, could have been permitted to reign fo long. And, finally, he will difcover very probable methods propofed, for collecting the old taxes, in a due and regular manner; whereby the frequent impofition of new ones, fo oppreffive to our manufactures, and fo deftructive to our trade, might have been spared; and the loss of some important branches of our commerce thereby prevented."

The third part of the work confifts of the late Admiral Smith's propofal, for employing two thousand and fixty Sea-officers and men, in fixty veifels, to be ftationed on the coafts of Great Britain and Ireland, to prevent the running of goods, off and on the faid coafts.

The fourth and laft part confifts of the fingle Sheet mentioned in the title-page; in which we have a ftriking proof of the political maxim, that in the arithmetic of the cuftoms, two and two frequently make but one, while one and one make four : it appearing, from this account, that for fome years before the paffing the act for reducing the excife on tea, both the custom and excife on that article, put together, produced but little more than 170,000l. fterling, communibus annis; whereas fo great has been the increase of this branch of the revenue from that period, that upwards of 5,500,000l. have been paid into the Exchequer more than probably would have been, if that act had not paffed. On the other hand alfo, the Eaft-India Company has increafed its importation of tea within that time, near fifty-three millions of pounds weight.

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