Thy Heaven-taught mind, devoid of pride, Committed by the haughty great C TO SLEEP. OY foother of the lonely hour, Soft, balmy, renovating Power! O let thy gentle tender fway SONNET, Written at the end of a MS. containing the Names of the Chiefs in the Norman Invafion. Hong-drawn roll ERE paufe: Thou haft perus'd the [deeds of yore Of William's Knights, whose valorous Hiftory ftill vaunts in her recording ftore; [goal, But they have pafs'd long fince the mortal Hailing the day that to thy native shore Thy ftern progenitor croft the rough fea. From one of thefe, perchance, thou claim'it to be [lore Clearly defcended; chief, if antique Delights thee, and the pride of ancestry! Yet know, though ftern War's fons acquire a narne [Fame, For murd'rous deeds enregifter'd by Virtue alone enfures the realms on high! O make to these a furer, better claim, Truth, mercy, juftice, and humility! E. D. fellow-labourers happy; and is convinced, that to make them fo, the moft effectual way is to persuade them to be content with their lot, and to be in love with their duty. Should you think his humble verfe has any tendency to promote that end, you will wreft it from obfcurity by giving it a place in your Mifcellany. The words of a brother Chip may, perhaps, obtain a reading where the most elegant effufions of poetic genius would pafs unnoticed.-It has been written ful! twelve years. SATURDAY NIGHT. BY A JOURNEYMAN MECHANIC. NOW, wife and children, let's be gay, My work is done, and here's the pay. 'Twas hard to earn, but never mind it, Hope rear'd the theaf, and peace fhall bind it. Six days I've toil'd, and now we meet For which, and ev'ry bleffing giv'n, Thankful we'll bow the knee to Heav'n; In God's own house our voices raise, Or cloud my brow with thoughts fevere, Our life is but a lengthen'd week, T. RAMSNEB. LINES Occafioned by reading Mrs. OPIE's affecting Tale of "The Father and Daughter." [OT for the joys which wealth can •No bring Or Fancy picture to the eye, More hallow'd than the shrine, where oft With eloquence too all its own, To chafe away the tear of woe, May haply glide through life, unknown To ills which like the tempeft lower; But never will his bofom own Thy facred glow-thy foothing power. In vain would Opie's tender tale Of woe, fo fraught with luxury, Upon his ftubborn foul prevail To fhed a tear-to heave a figh. And yet, what bofom would not melt, Or trembling pearl what eye not shed, At all the wretched Father felt When Agnes was for ever fled. In infamy oh! let her live! Regardless of the pelting ftorm, A maniac father's fhatter'd form; To tremble at the look of fire Which darts beneath his clouded brow, Which fays-Didft thou too leave a fire To heave the figh of endless woe? As round the cheerful fire we fit, To Fanny I the tale impart, Who mean-time weaves the filken net, The progrefs of the tale impede, Maternal feelings fwell her breaft, Whilft in the pride of confcious worth, She rocks the fancied babe to reft. But ftill refound its plaintive cries, Chill'd by the blaft and wet with rain; In vain the lulls it with her fighs, For ftill is heard Fitz-Henry's chain. Sweet babe, that chain which makes thee ftart, Which only makes thy tears to flow, Tells to thy mother's throbbing heart, A tale of unimagin'd woe. Oh! may'ft thou, Fanny, never feel Such woes, if haply fuch there be ! Oh! may'ft thou ever in my arms To thee, my partner and my pride; The following LINES are taken from a Co medy of Lope Felix de Vega Carpio, the celebrated Spanish Poet, as tranflated by Lord Holland. L ET no one fay that there is need The spark which but by flow degrees Is habit, friendship, what you please; For Love to be completely true, It death at fight should deal, To write, to figh, and to converfe, And fend one's heart to fchool. Love, all at once, fhould from the earth Start up full grown and tall; If not. Adam at its birth, He is no Love at all. PRO A PROCEEDINGS IN THE FOURTH SESSION OF THE SECOND PARLIAMENT OF THE UNITED KINGDOM OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND, 1806. In the Commons, the fame day, Mr. Curwen took a general view of the effects which the Pig Iron Duty would have, of increafing the price of various articles, particularly fhip-building. To the expence of iron-railways, it was computed this tax would add 500l. per mile; that its effect upon coals, in confequence of the quantity of iron ufed in mining and carriage, would be 1 s. per chaldron; and that it would increafe the farmer's expences at the rate of 12 s. for every horse. Mr. S. Wortley followed on the fame grounds; as did Meffrs. Mordaunt, Lafcelles, Francis, Canning, Rofe, and Lord A. Hamilton. Mr. Wilberforce obferved, that though it would not produce to the Treasury more than 200,000 yet a tax of nearly a mil lion would be levied by it on the publick. Lord H. Petty and Mr. Fox fupported the tax. The Houfe divided: for the motion 119; againft it 101. May 12. Lord Henry Petty brought a meffage from his Majefty, refpecting the provifion to be made for the family of Earl Nelfon. The Meffage requested the Houfe to take into its confideration the beft means of enabling his Majefty to fettle an annuity of 5000 1. on Earl Nelfon during his life, and alfo for enabling his Majefty to iffue 120,000 1. for the purchafe of an houfe and lands, to be annexed to the dignity of the family of Nelfon. In a Committee on the Property Bill, a long converfation enfued on the different claufes in facceffion. They were fupported by Mr. Leigh, Mr. Vanfittart, Sir H. Mildmay, Mr. Robfon, Mr. Fuller, and other Gentlemen.. The claufe exempting the property of Foreigners in the Funds, excited arduous GENT. MAG. Auguft, 1906. difcuffion; but was carried without a divifion. May 13. On the third reading of the Additional Force Repeal Bill, Sir J. Pulteney objected to the measure; and infifted that its operation would not be felt in lefs. than feven years; and he blamed the practice of recruiting for a limited service, as a dangerous innovation. Gen. Loftus approved of the Bill, on the ground that it would prevent the numerous desertions which had lately taken place; though he could not but condemn the intention of limited recruiting. Mr. Yorke contended, that it went to deftroy that great resource, the raifing of men by ballot. He then recapitulated the numbers raised under the Additional Force A&t; and dwelt on the impropriety of throwing afide so productive an A&t. Mr. Windham went at fome length into a vindication of his Bill; after which it was read a third time. In a Committee on his Majefty's Meffage relative to Earl Nelfon's Annuity, an Addrefs was ordered in answer to it. Mr. Rofe wifhed to know how the 120,000 1. was to be applied ? Lord H. Petty replied, that it was in contemplation to appropriate 90,000 1. for the purchase of an eftate; to referve 10,000 1. for repairs; and to beftow 10,000 l. on each of the fifters of his Lordship. Mr. Francis thought the arrangement was too extravagant. the hips which were built during his Lordship's adminiftration were by no means equal to the annual deftruction. As to the fpeculation of building fifty fail of the line in the King's Yards anqually, he wished he could fee it; but he believed it to be impracticable. The Earl not only neglected the ufual means, but all other modes; for he actually launched only ten thips of the line; three of the fix in the King's, and feven of those in the Merchants' yards, were completed without his afliftance. Of the three he launched from the King's Yards, one was nine-tenths, another three-fourths, and the third four tenths, completed by His predeceffors, and the laft of them launched in May 1804. Though his predeceffors left him 15 fhips building, his Lordship had only left to his fucceffors nine in that ftate, and these requiring three years to finish them. Not half had been done his adminiftration, the British Navy was verging faft towards ruin; and deprecated. the prefent great appointment of his Lordfhip, as one which he had by no means merited. He concluded with recapitulating his charges, and moving a refolution, "That his Lordship had been guilty of grofs negligence, misconduct, and dereliction of duty." Mr. Dent feconded the motion, merely that the queftion might be put, as he was convinced that in a Committee the conduct of the Earl would be fully vindicated. After fome remarks by the Speaker and Lord Howick, on the unparliamentary manner in which Mr. Jeffery had proceeded, he having read his fpeech from. a manuscript; Admiral Markham entered upon a refutation of the various ftate / ments of the mover. He obferved, that the number of ships of the line built in the eight years preceding Lord St. Vin cent's adminiftration would be 24; and, comparing with that the period of that Lord's adminiftration, from his acceffion to office in March 1801, to his departure in May 1804, the total number was 10 in a period of little better than three years, which so far proved no deficiency. It also appeared that, when he came into office, he found upon the flips building but 16 fail of the line, whereas on his departure from office, he left 18 in forwardness upon the ftocks. Befides which he added, that the Admiralty had nothing to do with the building of fhips. The Farl, who had done his part in ordering the building, was not to blame for tardinefs in the execution. The Ocean, the Impregnable, and many other ships of the line, had been many years in building. The Caledonia was ordered to be laid down in 1795, and for the building of which 1000l. was voted that year; 1000 l. in 1796; 1000 in 1797; 40,000l.. in 1804; and 10,000 l. in 1805; yet her frame was not set up till that year, by 30 men and fix boys; and the calculation was, that it would take 90 men to complete her for launching in nine months. He infifted that the Earl was entitled to great credit for many parts of his conduct while in office, particularly his arrangements for providing what the country then wanted more than fhips, namely, feamen to man the Channel Fleet. this purpose, he had taken the men out of the first-rates and frigates, and thereby effected a purpose fo effential to the fafety of the Country; fo that, at the end of an eight years war, he was thereby enabled to man 20 additional fail of the line, while he increased the number of frigates from 183 to 195, and the total of the Navy from 295 to 371. With respect to the breaking up of ships, he added, that this was which his predeceffors had accomplished For done new builder had fo arranged the order of working, by diftributing the artificers, as to engage to keep the whole Channel Fleet in repair, and build two fhips of the line every year befide. He proceeded to inftance many of the frauds which had been committed by contracting builders; and concluded with hoping that he had vindicated the Earl from the afperfions that had been caft on him. Lord Garlies fpoke in praise of the conduct of Earl St. Vincent; and Lord Howick went over the fame grounds as Adm.' Markham; and stated, that amongst the advantages of his Lordfhip's administra-' tion, he had formed a plan for procuring a fupply of timber from Dalmatia, and 40,000 trees had actually been felled in that country, but they had now fallen into the poffeffion of the enemy. Meffrs. Fox, Tierney, and Bankes, feverally spoke against the motion, and praifed the conduct of Earl St. Vincent; and Mr. Jeffery's motion was negatived without a divifion. Mr. For afterwards declared, that, from a conviction of the charge being frivolous and groundless, he should move, “That it appears to this House, that the condu&t of the Earl of St. Vincent, in his late Naval adminiftration, has added an additional luftre to his exalted character, and merits the approbation of the House." done in pursuance of the directions of the Navy Board; and in the fmall craft, certainly, great diminution took place, and a vaft number of rotten old tubs had been got rid of, that were useless and riot worth repairs; they were turned into money, the expence of fhip-keeping faved, and the warrant-officers, who would have been occupied ufeleffly in that way, turned over to new ships that were building, as a provifion for them. He proceeded to fhew, from a variety of examples, the enormous prices charged at the Merchants': yards, upon no less than 18 fail of fhips, repaired in 10 years, from 1783 to 1792, as a fair criterion to judge of the policy of employing them. In one fhip the charge for repairs was 12,392 1. when the charge for building her new at the fame time would have been only 7,943 1. The other inftances were equally ftriking. As to the Dock Yards, he infifted that the papers on the table proved, that not a man was difmiffed capable of doing duty; many of the men, who had long received the highest wages in the dock-yards, were actually blind, and others lame, difabled, and moving on crutches: thofe, to the amount of 327 men, to whom, in the year 1800, 28,024 1. wages were paid, were fuperannuated by Lord St. Vincent. At Plymouth, 76 were discharged, of a fimilar description, to whom, in 1800 and 1801, 10,043 1. wages was paid. Now, fome of those were put upon allowance greater than ufual, amounting to 4,529 1. and others fuperannuated, upon allow ances to the amount of 2,264 I. 11 s. The ufual allowance of 201. per annum, had, in thofe cafes, been increased to 24 1.; and the allowance of 24 1. to 28 1.; while to the rope-makers, and others difcharged, to whom no fuch allowance had ever been ufual, 201. a year had been allowed. He next combated the affertion that no credit was due to Earl St. Vincent for the late victories; as it was a fact that Lord Nelfon, Sir J. Duckworth, and Sir R. Strachan, had all been selected by him for principal commands. With refpect to the appointment of a mafter-builder, he stated the confequence to be, that the expedition fecured by this arrangement reduced to certainty the building within one year, with the number of artificers now in the yards, 55 fail of the line; for the mafter-builder had pledged himself to launch the Caledonia and Union, two first-rates, now with their frames upon the flips, which were about one-fourth part done, in nine months more, with the work of 90 men each; or, if to be allowed time for feafoning, then in two years from their commencement. He Majority 23. adduced a number of other proofs in fupport of thefe propofitions, and that this Meffrs. Yorke, S. Bourne, and Tierney, fupported this motion; and Meffis. Wilberforce, Bankes, Percival, and Canning, opposed it; -on the ground of no notice having been given. At half paft three o'clock, Mr. Fox's motion was agreed to without a division. May 15. A long debate enfued on different claufes in the Property Tax. H. May 16. On the third reading of the Slave Importation Reftriction Bill, the Duke of Clarence made an energetic oppofition to the measure. The Earl of Suffolk, the Bishops of London and St. Asaph, the Duke of Glou cefter, and Lords Darnley, Holland, Grenville, Ellenborough, Sidmouth, and Auck land, fpoke in favour of the Bill; and feverally pledged themfelves to use every effort to abolish fo infamous a traffic. The Marquis of Sligo, the Earl of Weftmoreland, and Lords Eldon and Hawkefbury, fpoke at confiderable length against the Bill; after which, on a divifion, there were, Contents 43; Non-contents 18: In the Commons, the fame day, Mr. |