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.) 181 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. B 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. B F 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 eyes 182 Au Enigmatical Character.-The White Boys. B eyes attentively on her, (for I have met X. Y. Z. D E A fuccinct Account of a Set of Mifcreants HEIR firft rife was in October last, walls, rooting up orchards, &c. 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 fent 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. 183 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. B 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. D E 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, G H A Copy of the Oath taken by all Perfons who enter into Sive Oultaugh's Society. 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. 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. 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 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. 184 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, }Children{ Mr Garrick. Dick, get me a poipe. (Exit Dick.] Raapb, go to Lord knows how long! [me fome wrong; Some tittups I faw, and they maade me to ftare! Wife. But London, dear Fabn! Farmer. Is a fine hugeous city! Here's to 'em-blefs them boath-do you take [Drinks. Dick. Here, daddy,-here's to 'em! [Dri 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 Who keep open market, tho' fmuggling their Like old Juftice Wormwood, -a crattisk's a man, that can, For poor, folk to like what they don't understand. [Aarting.] Wife. [rvoice. For yes the knock'd once, and for no fhe knock'd' If yo', dame, was true? [cries. POETICAL ESSAYS; APRIL 1762. Arewell the bell, upon a ram's neck hung, pranks, 4185 Their boys around, bleft pledges! play their 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, And thou, farewell, that from the hollow oak, Adieu each witnefs of my conftant love. All arms now rife and fall in perfect time; While, in my verse, my fofteft thoughts you fee, Turn hopeless thought, from whence my for- My thought rebels, and wakens ev'ry woe: To drive thy dear remembrance from my heart; It rules each varying motion of my heart. Why wer't thou, charming youth, to form'd to wings Marriage |