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Letter from the late Mr Addison to a Lady:

that were I capable of fuch an action at the time that my behaviour might be rewarded by your paffion, I mult be defpifed by your reafon; and though I might be efteemed as a lover, I must be hated as a man.

Highly fenfible, madam, of the pow er of your beauty, I am determined to avoid an interview where my reputation may be for ever loft.-You have paffions you fay, madam; but give me leave to anfwer, that you have underftanding alfo you have a heart fufceptible of the tendereft impreffions, but a foul, if you would choose to wake it, above an unwarranted indulgence of them; and let me intreat you for your own fake, that no giddy impulfe of an ill-placed inclination may induce you to entertain a thought prejudicial to your honour, and repugnant to your

virtue.

I, madam, am far from being infenfible, I too have paffions, & could my fituation a few years ago have allowed me a poffibility of fucceeding, I fhould have legally follicited that happiness which you are now ready to bestow. I had the honour, madam, of fupping at Mr D's, where I firft faw you, and, fhall make no fcruple in declaring, that I never faw a perfon fo irrefiftably beautiful, or a manner fo exceffively engaging, but the fuperiority of your çircumstances prevented any declaration on my fide; and though I burned with a flame as ftrong as ever filled human breaft, I laboured to fupprefs, or at leaft ftudied to conceal it,

Time and abfence at length abated an unhoping paffion, and your marri age with my patron and my friend effectually cured it. Do not now, I befeech you, madam, rekindle that fire which I mult never think to fan; do not now, I beseech you, destroy a tranquillity I have just begun to tafte, or blaft your own honour, which has been hitherto spotless and unfullied.— My beft efteem is ever yours; but fhould I promise more? Confider, I conjure you, the fatal neceffity I am under of removing myself from an intercourse fo dangerous, and in any other commands difpofe of your most humble and devoted, J. A.

Mr URBAN, April 15, 1762. F you refufe fatire, flander, and lamIF you replace in your Magazine, refufe fatire,

may I hope you will encourage laudabie panegyrick. I would fain acknowledge and celebrate the perfections of my favourite companion in this pub. (Gent. Mag. APRIL 1762.)

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lick manner, though the is infenfible of praife, yet nothing more delights her father. I have heard it reported, that a gentleman, expreffing his admiration of her in the strongest terms, A the Doctor returned the compliment in thefe words only: Sir, it fhews you to be a wife man.

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I fhall hardly attempt to defcribe the outfide of the daughter of this learned divine; the generally went veiled when fhe was at my house: I know the is well proportioned; has an olive complexion, and is very much freckled : Excufe my faying any thing of her features, for her face appeared to me to be as flat as a flounder; the is quite blind, yet has opened the eyes of many; the has no fingers, confequently cannot write; yet many great writers, Cwriting by her: You may, with ftrist I believe, have been improved in their truth, fay, the is a receptacle of wifdom, wit, learning, truth, purity, gentlenefs, and conftancy. She is an excellent counsellor, an engaging companion, an improving acquaintance a true friend in adverlity, a chafte and D fafe affociate, a mild admonitor, and an invariable guide: She is alfo an inexhaustible fund of virtuous and laudable amusement.

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Sometimes partaking of her divine and nocturnal contemplations, I have imagined myself in the heaven of heavens; at others, the leads me to traverse the unbounded space, and look down with contemplation on this lit tle ball, elevated, fublime, and towring as her thoughts. She has condefcended to difcourfe on friendship, friendship disinterested, delicate, and pure; in fhort, whatever fubject or theme the purfues, in all the excells. Death fhe confiders as her deliverer; life the only values as the embrio, or feed of one more glorious in the world to come: Afflictions the esteems as the gentle chaftifements of a wife father; immoderate grief the holds as impiGous; all earthly rapture and fenfual joy feem as inconfiftent to her as if the whole ocean was wrought into a tumult or storm, to waft a feather, or drown a fly. She demonftrates the unreasonableness of pride; leads our ambition only up to God himself; regulates our affections, and teaches us Hto bind our chafte defires to his throne. Notwithstanding her fuperious learn

ing, he is neither loud or loquacious, but fo filent, that the can only be heard by an eccho, though you may well understand her meaning, by fixing your

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Au Enigmatical Character.-The White Boys.

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eyes attentively on her, (for I have met
hier at other places without her veil.)
I have often had the happiness of hear-
ing the most harmonious and just e-
choe, (for her echoes are as various as
many,) there are fome people, I mean
fuch as are never pleased, affert, that
fhe is too grave, dull, pedantick, and A
and fometimes infipid, and that the
often expreffes herself fo ambiguously,
that they cannot comprehend her: I
anfwer, in her own words, that sono-
rous babling mirth, betrays a fhallow
ftream of happiness, to the first charge;
and, for the latter, that her feeming
ambiguity is owing to their want of
capacity, or attention. How many
happy hours have I, and the charm-
ing echo, spent in her company? In-
deed the was fo very enchanting, and
engroffed fo much of my time, that I
have fent her to refide entirely with
the harmonious echo. I often have
the luck to meet her when I vifit the
learned, the religious, or thofe who
have only a taste of polite literature,
the being generally esteemed by thofe
three claffes, if any one is defirous of
her acquaintance, or if they are in-
quifitive to know who the is, let them
look in the eighth chapter of Signior
de Montaigne's Eflays, and they will
guess: Are they curious to know her
father, let them think of the prime of
their life, whether they be poor, or
rich, happy, or miferable: If they
then ask which of his daughters, for
he has many, I advise them to reflect
what are their fentiments when Hefpe
Tu leads the starry hoft, and her name
will immediately occur to them.
Yours, &c.

X. Y. Z.

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A fuccinct Account of a Set of Mifcreants
in the Counties of Waterford, Cork,
Limerick, and Tipperary, called F
1 Bougheleen Bawins (i. e. White
Boys.) Being an Extract of a Letter
from a Gentleman refiding in Youghall
to his Son in London.

HEIR firft rife was in October last,
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and they have ever fince been
increafing; they then, and all along, G
pretended that their affembling was
to do juftice to the poor, by restoring
the ancient commons, and redrefling
other grievances; for which purpose
they always affembled in the night,
with their shirts over their cloaths,
which caufed them to be called White
Boys: Their number in the county of H
Waterford is computed at 6 or 700.
They have done infinite damage in
the county, levelling ditches and flone

walls, rooting up orchards, &c.

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On the 11th ult. I faw feveral ditches they had levelled, part of an orchard deftroyed, and two graves they had dug, on the road between Clonmel and Coppoquin; the graves were to hold thofe that did not comply with their orders. Some time before this, they came by night into the town (a large village) of Cappoquin, where is a horfe-barrack, drew up in the Green near the barrack, fired feveral shots, marched by the centry with their piper, playing, The Lat with the White Cockade.

The 13th I faw a bier, near Affans church, which they had carried two days before to be made, to carry people alive, and bury them in thote graves. An Efquire at Cappoquin, when a batchelor, agreed with a peafant for the ufe of his daughter, for which he paffed the peasant his bond for 1007. hut on the Esquire's entering the matrimonial ftate, he was compelled to take up his bond: They wrote to the peafant to refund the money, upon pain of having his tongue drawn thro' his under jaw, and faftened with a skewer.

On the 14th they affembled at Lif more (between Cappoquin and Tallow potted an advertisement on the door of the poft-office, requiring the inhabitants to have their houfes illuminated, and a certain number of horfes bridled and faddled, ready for them to mount against next night; which was complied with. On the night of the 15th, they mounted,went to Tallow-Bridge (near Tallow) where they levelled the ditches of feveral fine parks, and cut down a number of full grown ath-trees (knee high) they then proceeded to Talow; the horfe matched to the welt bridge, where the commander called out, Hall; to the right about; and then proceeded into the Market-place in a finart trot. They broke open the Marfbalfea; difcharged the debtors; fent an advertifement to the justice, to lower the price of provisions one half; which. he tamely complied with, tho' a troop: and a half of diagoons were quartered, very near him.

On the 22d, they came to the Ferrypoint, oppofite this town, levelled the ditches of a fmall park opposite the back window of my parlour, and a mufket-thot off the town; they made a large fire, dug a grave, and erected a gallows over it, fired feveral shots, and at each difcharge, huzza'd; and

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Account of the Irifh Levellers.

fent feveral audacious letters to th inhabitants of this town, threatening to pull down feveral houfes, particularly a handsome houfe, at a small diftance, which they said was built upon the wafte.

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Tallow barracks; his name is Obon.It is faid, he has been fome time in the French fervice. There was another party with the army from Cork, met at Youghall, and had feized about A twenty-five at Lifmore, and places adjacent.

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The militia-arms were delivered to the Proteftant inhabitants, who being joined by two companies of foot from the barracks, marched thro' the town, and made a handsome appearances 70 men mounted guard that night, a party of which patrolled every two hours to the faid houfe: No attempt was made. One D. C. of Tallow, a comber, came here and endeavoured. to inlift another of the fame trade under Sive's banner; he was appre hended and lodged in the barracks; and, on the 26th, he was fent, in the revenue cruifing boat, to Cork, to prevent a refcue by land: On the 27th, C P. R. formerly a fmith to a troop of horfe, who lived near Cappoquin, was apprehended here, fuppofed to have made part of their levelling tools; at the fame time, he gave information against feveral, to Mw P-r, Ffq; He was sent to Cork by the fame conveyance.

The 29th, the ditches of Tirkelling and Ballydaniel, near Tallow, were le.. velled; five hundred men, in a day, could not repair the damage.

The 30th, four pieces of iron cannon, taken out of our fort, were placed at the North and South Gates, charged with cartridge fhot.

The 31ft, feveral alarms.

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April the 1ft, between 7 and 8 in the evening, the alarm was beat; after that, to arms, a falfe alarm being given that the White Boys were within half a mile of the North Gate; the town in an uproar; by nine all quiet: About one in the morning, the Mayor, and F feveral other gentlemen, in number forty-one, well mounted and accoutred, with each a foldier behind him, went from this place to Tallow, eight miles distant, and, before fun-rise, feized eleven White Boys, whom they brought to this town.

The 2d, they marched them thro' it in their uniforms, with drum beating, fifes playing, &c.

The 3d, two brothers of the town of Tallow, gave information; upon which the inhabitants, together with the collector, and feveral revenueofficers, equipped as before, went to Tallow, and places adjacent, and brought to town thirteen White Boys, and lodged a Lieutenant-Colonel in

Sivé Oultab, their nominal chaftain,

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A Copy of the Oath taken by all Perfons who enter into Sive Oultaugh's Society.

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I Do hereby folemnly and fincerely

fwear, that I will not make known any fecret now given me, or hereafter may be given, to any one in the world, except to a fworn perfon belonging to the fociety called White. Boys, or otherwife, Sive Oultaugh's children.

Furthermore, I swear, that I will be ready, at an hour's warning (if poffible) being properly fummoned by any of the officers, ferjeants, or corporals belonging to my company. 'Furthermore, I fwear, I will not wrong any of the company I belong to, of the value of one fhilling, nor fuffer it to be done by others, with⚫out acquainting them thereof.

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Furthermore, I fwear, I will not make known, in any fhape whatsoever, to any person that does not belong to us, the name or names of any of our fraternity, but particularly the names of our refpective ⚫ officers.

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Lastly, I fwear, that I will not drink of any liquor whatsoever, whilft on duty, without the confent of one or other of the officers, ferjeants, or corporals; and that we will be loyal one to the other as far as in our power lies."

A Gentleman, in the county of Cork, writes to his friend, in Dublin, April 5, What you, in Dublin, think、 of the White Boys, or Levellers, I can

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not fay; but, be affured, both you there, and we here, have abundant 'reafon to thank God, that some of

thofe taken have difcovered their 'confederates. I am in hopes foon 'to have information against some of 'their principal gentry and officers. Yesterday a man was fent offto Dublin, who fays he will make great difcoveries before the Government.' "Other Letters from Ireland are full of apprehenfions for their country, on this occafion. It is even faid, that the demand which the British Minifter at the Hague has made to the States Gen. of the ftipulated fuccours, in cafe of an invasion, has fome relation to these disturbances.

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Account of the Farmer's Return from Lon-
don; an Interlude. As it is performed at
the Theatre Royal in Drury Lane; pub-
lifbed, in Quarto.

The GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE, VOL. XXXII.

HIS interlude, which has for fome TH time paft entertained the town, at Drury Lane theatre, is embellished with a frontispiece containing a sketch of the farmer and his family, of which it is a fufficient recommendation to fay, that it comes from the hand of Hogarth, to whom the author has infcribed the piece, which, we are informed, was written merely with a view of ferving Mrs Pritchard at her benefit night.

The characters of the Interlude, and the perfons who reprefent them, are as follow:

FARMER, WIFE, SALLY, DICK, RALPH,

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Mr Garrick.
Mrs Bradshaw.
Mifs Heath,
Master Pope,
Mafter Cape.
The fcene, which is in the farmer's
kitchen, opens with the hafty entrance
of the wife, calling her children about
her, who immediately run in, and are
informed of their father's return. Then
enters the farmer, prefenting a fine i-
mage of a country traveller, and, after
kiffing his wife and children round, like
a true farmer, employs them all to at-
tend him.

Dick, get me a poipe. (Exit Dick.] Raapb, go to
the mare;
[reach me a chair.
Gi' poor wench fome oaats. Exis R.] Dame,
Sah, draw me fome aal, to wash the dirt down
[Exit Sal.]
[Sirs down.]
And then I will tell you-of London fine town.
Wife. Fabn! yo've been from me-the

Lord knows how long! [me fome wrong;
Yo've been with fome falfe ones, and done
Farmer. By the zooks but I han't-fo hold
thy fool's tongue.

Some tittups I faw, and they maade me to ftare!
Trick'd noice out for faale, like our cattle at fair:
So tempting, fo fine!-and i'cod very cheap-
But, Bridges, I know, as we fow we must reap,
And a cunning old man, will avoid rotten fheep.
[Enter Dick with a pipe and a candle, and Sal
with fome ale.]

Wife. But London, dear Fabn!

Farmer. Is a fine hugeous city!

Here's to 'em-blefs them boath-do you take
the jug i
[mug. [Drinks.]
Woud't do their hearts good-I'd fwallow she
Come, pledge me, my boy. [To Dick..]-Hold,
lad, haft nothing to fay?

[Drinks.

Dick. Here, daddy,-here's to 'em! [Dri
Farmer.
Well faid, Dick, boy
Huzza!

Dick.

Wife. What more didft thou fee, to beget admiration? [crownation, Farmer. The city's fine fhow, but firft the 'Twas thof all the world had been there with their spouses [houses! There was ftrcet within freet, and houses on I thought from above, (when the folk fill'd the pleaces) [of feaces! The freets pav'd with heads, and the walls made Such juftling and buffling !-'twas worth all the pother.

the fhows!

I hope, from my foul, I fall ne'er fee another. Sal. Dad, what did you fee at the pleays, and [the shows? Farmer. What did I fee at the pleays and Why bouncing and grinning, and a pow'r of fine cloaths: [ground! From top to the bottom 'twas all chanted Gold, painting, and mufic, and blaazing all

round!

ling:

Above was like Bedlam, all roaring and rattling
Below, the fine folk wore all curts'ying and prat-
Strange jumble together-Turks, Chriftians and
[Ferus!
At the temple of folly, all croud to the pews.
Here too doizen'd out, were thofe feame freak if
ladies,
[trade is.

Who keep open market, tho' fmuggling their
I faw a new pleay too-they call'd it the fcbool-
I thought it poor ftuff-but I tho't like a fool-
'Twas the school of-piże on it!-my mem'ry is
The great one's diflik'd it-they heate to be
naught
[taught:
The crattacks too grumbl'd--I'll tell you for whoy,
They wanted to laugh-and were ready to croy.
Wife. Pray what are your cratticks?
Farmer.
Like watchmen in town,
Lame, feeble, half-blind, yet they knock poets
down.

Like old Juftice Wormwood, -a crattisk's a man,
That can't fin himself-ahd he heates thofe

that can,

For poor, folk to like what they don't understand.
I ne'er went to op'ras-I thought it too grand
The top joke of all, and what pleas'd me the moafts
Some wife ones and I fat up with a ghoaft.
Wife and children. A ghoaft!
Farmer. Yes, a ghoaft!

[Aarting.]

Wife.
I fall fwoond away, love!
Farmer. Odzooks thou'rt as bad as thy
betters above!

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For yes the knock'd once, and for no fhe knock'd'
I afk'd her one thing-

If yo', dame, was true?
Wife. And the poor foul knock'd one.
Farmer. By the zounds, it was two,
Wife. I'll not be abus'd, Jabn.
Farmer,

[cries.
Come, prithee no croying
The ghoft, among friends, was much giv'n to
Joying.

POETICAL ESSAYS; APRIL 1762.

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Their boys around, bleft pledges! play their
(planks.
Some houfes build with chips, fome fwing on
The tender watchful mother fits hard by,
Knitting, awhile the girls raife up dirt pye.
O happy prefage of their future lives,
Ufeful in arts the boys, the girls domeftic wives
Farewel each thing, each place I fondly know,
To diftant climes poor Corydon must go,
The home-felt joys, beyond expreffion dear,
Deferve an elegy, a parting tear.

DELIA to LUCIO.

Ear object (of a love, whofe fond excess)

Farewell the ruftic fong by shepherd fung; D No Rudied forms of language can exprefs,

Farewell the hungry falcon's cat-like note,
As down the glade he floops for moufe of float;
Farewell the fearful lapwing's chiding quest,
When rover ranges near, too near her neft;
Farewell the jetty raven's scornful fcoff,
Who proud, to prouder man, cries out off, off.
So fancy forms his ill-betiding croak,

And thou, farewell, that from the hollow oak,
The bird of wifdom 'clep'd does fend around,
Thy manlike halloes hunters to confound.
Imbower'd in birchen groves thou wooing dove,
Emblem of spotless indocence and love:
Farewell, O fay! with thy companion fate,
How oft thou'ft faen me with as fair a mate.
Farewell, the busy hurn of bees that bring,
Extracted honey from the pride of spring;
Ne more your toil fhall Corydon moleft,
When buzzing near my Cloe's tender breast,
Whether to fting her was your fad intent,
Or, whether fweets to fteal, was all ye meant.
Farewell each hill, each dale, each confcious
grove.

Adieu each witnefs of my conftant love.
Farewell of diftant bells the liquid found,
That while I lay fretch'd careless on the ground,
Would foftly undulate along the glade,
And bring fuch news as pleasing fancy made.
Happly a wedding, or, an heir may be,
Or glorious vict'ry gain'd by land and fea;
For joy, the very fairies dance and fing,
And leave their footsteps in a verdant ring.
The bells in triple cadence other times
At matins pleafe the ear in fofter chimes :
When good old dowager opprefs'd with cares,
Or maiden aunt with Jacky fteals to pray'rs.
The evening knell reminds us of our folly,
And fubftitutes a pleafing melancholy.
Farewell the lonely cot in neatness dreft,
Which neighb'ring 'fquire does annually inveft,
With decent liv'ry of pureft white,
A pleasing object to allure the fight;
Fix'd near a fpacious wood of aged oak, [Imoke,
Which fhows the chimney's noon-day azure
Near it a limpid ftream for ever flows,
Where linnen-fuited Sal for water goes,
To boil her cates, or wash her cotton hofe.
A neat cut hedge that can with tulips vie,
Where Sally hangs her favours out to dry.
Farewell the woodman's hem at ev'ry ftroke,
Who hems and inter-whistles (bearts of oak.)
The fawyers working in the inmoft wood,
Attentive hear the tune, and think it good.
They make their motions with the measure
chime,

All arms now rife and fall in perfect time;

While, in my verse, my fofteft thoughts you fee,
And, my whole foul, I thus pour forth to thee.
Say, fhall thefe lines, the name, I hide, impart,
And point their author to my Lucio's heart?
Will he, by correfpondent friendship own,
A verfe, the mufe directs to him alone.

Turn hopeless thought, from whence my for-
rows flow;

My thought rebels, and wakens ev'ry woe:
Pleafure is vain, and vain is ev'ry art,

To drive thy dear remembrance from my heart;
Which fix'd and conftant to its fav'rite flame,
In fpite of time, and diftance is the fame,
Still feels thy abfence, equally fevere,
Nor taftes, without thee, a delight fincere.
For ftill is all my foul, by thee ingroft,
To friendship, pleafure, ev'n to int'reft loft:
The aid of Reafon, I, in vain implore,
And fair Philofophy, has force no more;
Alike, with others, or from others free,"
My foul steals ever to converfe with thee!
Whate'er the different track my thoughts pursue,
Thy lov'd idea ever meets my view,
Of ev'ry joy, of ev'ry with a part,

It rules each varying motion of my heart.
Yes, my fond verfe, fhall celebrate the day,
On which I gave my virgin heart away ;
On which my love, I plighted to my fwain,
A fmiling day on April's changeful train ;"
True emblem of the love he then profefs'd,
A vernal day, in all its beauty drect:
But foon the tranfient funshine is withdrawn,
And fudden fhow'rs defcend o'er all the lawn;
The feather'd choir, their harmony give o'er,
And feel thy genial warmth, O Sun, no more:
As that fair orb of bright cæleftial flame,
From the clear brook reflected feems the fame,
So won by tender love, devoid of art,
Reflected is thy image from my heart,
(Yielding as wax) thy form my heart retains,
Th' impreffion, as on adamant remains.

Why wer't thou, charming youth, to form'd to
Or, why was all my foul, fo form'd to love, [move,
Why did't thou feek my artlefs heart to gain,
Or, rather, why ar't now a faithlefs fwain,
Was it, that I too foon thy vows believ'd?
Thou waft fincere, or I was well deceiv'd.
I thought unchang'd thy paffion would remain,
And, that thy gentle heart I could retain,
When lift'ning to thy foft prevailing tongue,
With pleasure, trembling on thy voice I hung,
Thy voice was sweeter than the fofteft ftrings,
Thine eyes had light'ning, but thy heart had

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