II.

Tho' Genius fires, yet faint his rays appear,

Till thy mysterious lore the soul refine;

'Tis thou to noblest heights his thoughts must rear,
And make them doubly shine.

O Masonry !

Thou Art sublimely free!

'Tis thou exalt'st the man, and makʼst him half divine.

Ye Masons, favour'd men, your voices raise !

You speak your glory while you sing its praise.
Hail! inspiring Masonry, &c,

III.

Blest be the man, and blest he is, who bears
With virtuous pride a Mason's sacred name;
And may each Brother, who the blessing shares,
Enrich the lift of Fame,

Bleft Masonry!

Thou Art sublimely free!

Heav'n bids thy happy sons, and they thy worth proclaim.
With loud assent! their cheerful voices raise,

Their great, immortal Masonry to praise.

Hail! inspiring Masonry, &c.

IV.

The tow'r sky-pointing, and the dome sublime,
Rais'd by the mystic rules and forming power,
Shall long withstand the iron tooth of time,
Yet ftill their fall is sure;

But Masonry,

The Art sublimely free,

Founded by God himself, thro' time shall firm endurę.
Still fhall it's sons their grateful voices raise,

And joyful sound their Great Grand Master's praise,
At thy fhrine, O! Masonry!

Shall admiring nations bend ;

In future times thy sons fhall see

Thy fame from pole to pole extend.

To worlds unknown thy heav'n-born light dispense,
And Systems own thy sacred influence.

EPITAPH ON THE LATE VENERABLE JUDGE
SIR HENRY GOULD, Knt.

May 9, 1794.

IC dormit, cursu longo illustrique peracto,

HI Couldeius, judex integer atque sagax:

Quem, licet extremâ carpsit Mors tarda senectâ
(Rusticus utramo mitia poma legit*),
Ploramus, veluti immaturo funere raptum ;
Flentur et ut juvenis debita fata senis.
Viderat ille pares quanquam ter cedere letho,

Ante suam visus deperiisse diem.

Lumina, quæ sontem terrebant, nocte premuntur
Lethali, et pollens doctaque lingua silet.

Flent leges, plenumque forum, procerumque senatus,
Nec parcit lacrymis Anglia tota suis.

Heu pietas, heu prisca fides,' dignissima cœlo!
Longiùs at voluit terra tenere virum.

NICOLAUS BACON HARRISON,
Medii Templi Alumnus,

He came to the grave like a shock of corn fully ripe in his season,

TO MISS *****
[BY T. P.]

OVELY Maid, whose azure eyes

L More than heaps of gold I prize;

Whose sprightly graceful modeft air
Has power to chase away Despair;
Whose charming features bear the fign
Of inward worth, of worth divine!
O! tell me! may I hope to gain
Thy soft affections, and to reign
The Monarch of thy yielding heart,
Untainted with coquettish art;
And wilt thou be content to shine
The Queen of one so poor as mine?
I'd leave the brightest earthly throne
To proud ambitious mortals known,
Thine to possess, and scorn the fame.
Attendant on a Monarch's name.

O come, then, let us leave this scene
That stands ourselves and peace between ;
And seek the sweet domestic shades,
Where shepherd swains and country maids
In peaceful quiet health enjoy,

And taste the sweets that never cloy;
The sweets of innocence and love,
Which make the bliss of saints above.

O come, and when the op'ning morn
Shall gild our windows through the thorn;
I'll lead thee forth 'mongst fairest flowers,
To woodbine fhades and jasmine bowers,
And cull the sweetest to array
Thy lovely form, and bless the day
When, from the din of bus'ness free,
I sought a rural life with thee.

O come, I'll lead thee where the rocks Have borne the hardest wintry shocks Of stubborn Ocean, whence secure We'll hear the boist'rous billows roar ; And when by trembling fear opprest, I'll gently hold thee to my breast, And turning seek the grassy steep, Where graze the tender bleating sheep; And when the sun's at high'ft, we'll rove By the lone stream in yonder grove; The mellow blackbird, lark, and thrush, Shall carol sweetly from the bush, The air with peals of love shall ring, And every animated thing Partake the universal joy,

And pleasure taste without alloy.

All that or hill or dale can yield,
The lofty mountain, flow'ry field;

The grove, the garden's crystal stream,
The varied tint of Titan's beam;
The sea in all its beauties drest,
Rous'd into ire, or sunk to rest,
Can Vectis boast, then Nancy haste,
And these collected pleasure taste;
For you and I there yet is room,
Then come my charming Nancy, come.

Panting Terror fled before,

Wounds and death were left behind.
The War-fiend curs'd the sunken day
That check'd his fierce pursuit too soon;
While, scarcely lighting to the prey,
Low hung, and lour'd the bloody Moon;
The field, so late the Hero's pride,
Was now with various carnage spread;
And floated with a crimson tide,
That drench'd the dying and the dead!
O'er the sad scene of dreareft view,
Abandon'd all to horrors wild,
With frantic ftep, Maria flew,
Maria! Sorrow's early child!

By Duty led, for every vein

Was warm'd by Hymen's purest flame;
With Edgar o'er the wintry main
She, lovely, faithful Wanderer, came.

For well she thought a Friend so dear
In darkest hours might joy impart ;
Her Warrior, faint with toil, might chear,
Or soothe her bleeding Warrior's smart,
Tho' look'd for long-in chill affright,
(The torrent bursting from her eye)
She heard the signal for the fight-
While her soul trembled in a sigh-→→

She heard, and clasp'd him to her breast,
Yet scarce could urge th' inglorious stay;
His manly heart the charm confest--
Then broke the charm,-and rufh'd away→→

Too soon, in few-but deadly words,
Some flying Stragglers breath'd to tell,
That, in the foremost strife of swords,
The young, the gallant Edgar fell!
She prest to hear-she caught the tale
At ev'ry sound her blood congeal'd !----
With terror bold-with terror pale,
She sprung to search the fatal field:
O'er the sad scene, in dire amaze,
She went with courage not her own→→→
On many a corpse she cast her gaze-
And turn'd her ear to many a groan!

Drear Anguish urged her to press
Full many a hand, as wild she mourn'd:
Of comført glad, the drear caress
The damp, chill, dying hand return'd!

Her ghastly Hope was well nigh fled-
When, late, pale Edgar's form she found,
Half-bury'd with the hoftile dead,

And bor'd with many a grisly wound:

She knew she sunk-the night-bird scream'd, The Moon withdrew her troubled light,

And left the Fair, tho' fall'n fhe seem'd,

To worse than death-and deepest night!

MASONIC INTELLIGENCE.

OFFICIAL COMMUNICATION.

T the Grand Feast of the Most Ancient and Honourable Society of Free and

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London, on Wednesday, May 7, 1794. His Royal Highness George Augustus Frederick Prince of Wales, &c. &c. &c. Grand Master. Present, John Dent, Esq. S. G. W. as G. M.-Edmund Armstrong, Esq. J. G. W. as D. G. M.-George Shum, Esq. P. S. G. W. as S. G. W.-John Allen, Esq. P. J. G. W. as J. G. W.-James Heseltine, Esq. G. T. Thomas Dunckerley, Esq. P. S. G. W.-William Atkinson, Esq. Lionel Darell, Esq. Nath. Newnham, Esq. P. J. G. W.--Mr. William White, G. S.-Rev. A. H. Eccles, G. C. -Chev. Bartholomew Ruspini, G. S. B.-The Master, Wardens, and Assistants, of the Stewards' Lodge, the Masters and Wardens of sundry Lodges, and a great Number of other Brethren.

In consequence of the re-election of his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales to be Grand Master, the Grand Master in the chair, as the representative of his Royal Highness, was installed in ample form, and re-invested with the ensigns of that high office: He then, by authority of his Royal Highness, declared the Right Hon. the Earl of Moira to be Acting Grand Master, and Sir Peter Parker, Bart. to be Deputy Grand Master; after which the following officers were appointed and invested, viz. John Dawes, Esq. Senior Grand Warden.-Arthur Tegart, Esq. Junior Grand Warden.Mr. William White, Grand Secretary.-Rev. A. H. Eccles, Grand Chaplain.-Chev. Bartholomeo Ruspini, Grand Sword-Bearer.

James Heseltine, Esq. P. S. G. W. was unanimously elected Grand Treasurer at the Quarterly Communication held the 27th of November last,

The Grand Stewards, having received the thanks of the Grand Lodge for their elegant entertainment, presented to the Grand Master, for his approbation, the following Brethren as their Successors for the next Grand Feast, who were approved of: Hon. T. J. Twisleton, President, presented Arthur Gower, Esq.-Nathaniel Gosling, Esq. Treasurer, presented Stafford Squire Baxter, Esq.-Richard Woodward, Esq. Secretary, presented George Bolton, Esq.-The Earl of Pomfret presented The Hon. Alexander Hope. -Sir W. J. James, Bart. presented W. J. Speed, Esq.-Thomas Fellows, Esq. presented Thomas Hill, Esq.-Richard Griffiths, Esq. presented John Curtis, Esq.-John Rush, Esq. presented The Hon. Thomas William Fermor.-Charles Carpenter, Esq. presented John Godwin, Esq.-John Johnstone, Esq. presented William Newton, Esq.-Joseph Knowles, Esq. presented William Ayres, Esq.-Robert Randoll, Esq. presented John Stewart, Esq.

The following account of the entertainment, though not official, will probably be pleasing to many of our readers.

GRAND FEAST.

JOHN DENT, Esq. M. P. for Lancashire, in the Chair.

After dinner," Non Nobis," by Mess. Johnstone, Incledon, Dignum, Fawcett, Davies, &c. &c.-Toast, King and Craft-Music, God save the King-Toast, His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, G. M.-Music, "Apprentices Song"-Song, Dignum, "The joys of an humble state."-Toast, Lord Moira.-Music, Britons strike home. Song, Incledon, "This day a stag must die."-Toast, Duke of York and the army. Music, See the conquering hero comes.-Glee, "When Arthur first at court began.” -Toast, Duke of Clarence and the navy of Great Britain.Music, Rule Britannia.Song, Johnstone," Land of potatoes "Toast, John Dent, Esq. (the Chair)—Song, Fawcett, "Father and Mother and Suke."Toast, Grand Wardens.-Duet, "Wine cannot cure."-Toast, Sir P. Parker, D. G. M.-Music, Hearts of oak.-Song, Angelo, "With a double voice."-The Grand Officers were announced from the Chair.Toast, Peace, harmony, and unanimity, to Masons in general.--Song, Williams, "What folly boys to be downhearted."-Toast, Board of Stewards.--Toast, Prince Edward.

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The Lodge being closed, Earl Pomfret took the chair, and many of the Brethren prolonged the pleasures of the evening by several excellent songs and constitutional toasts. The King and Constitution, with the utmost enthusiasm, three times three. The dinner consisted of a profusion of every delicacy that could be procured; the desert was of the most elegant kind, cherries, strawberries, &c.-Ices and confectionary in an abundant variety.

It is to be observed, however, that although the liberality of the stewards demands this justice for their elegant entertainment, we are decidedly of opinion, that if the usual price of the tickets (10s. 6d.) had been continued, there would have been a much more numerous company; and the majority of the Brethren would certainly have been well satisfied with an entertainment proportioned to such a charge.

The Annual Provincial Grand Meeting of the Free and Accepted Masons of Kent, was held at the White Bear in West Malling, on the 19th of May, where a brilliant and numerous party of the Fraternity attended. On report being made by Brother. Mathews, S. P. G. W. of the indisposition of Brother Sawbridge, P. G. M. Dr. William Perfect was invested pro tempore with that office; and the election of a P. G. M. for the county for the ensuing year, was deferred till the second week in July. Between eleven and twelve the Brethren proceeded in due order to church, where they heard a most excellent sermon on the occasion, preached by the Rev. JETHRO INWOOD, RECTOR OF DEPTFORD in that county, on the following words, part of the 17th verse of the 2d chapter of the first epistle of St. Peter." Love the Brotherhood, fear God, honour the King." [This sermon, at the very pressing request of the Brethren present, we understand, Mr. Inwood has consented to print.] The company then repaired to the Assembly Rooms, where an elegant dinner was provided, and the afternoon was spent with the utmost conviviality and harmony, and in the genuine style of brotherly love so honourably distinguishing the fraternity.

The next Provincial Grand Meeting for the county will be held at Feversham on the third Monday in May 1795.

MONTHLY CHRONICLE.

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

N the 7th of March a complete revolution took place at Warsaw, when the Poles drove General Inglestrom, the Russian Ambassador, and all the military of his country out of that city. Inglestrom had required nothing less than that the arsenal of Warsaw should be delivered up to him, and all the Polish military disarmed. This produced the revolution.

Sweden and Denmark have entered into a treaty to maintain a perfect neutrality with respect to the belligerent powers, each having agreed to fit out a fleet of eight ships of the line, with frigates, &c. in order to give effect to their purpose.

A conspiracy has been discovered at Naples, the purpose of which was nothing short of the destruction of the whole royal family of Sicily, who were to be blown up in their palace by gunpowder.

The Emperor went to Brussels on the 21st of April, and the inauguration of his Im perial Majesty took place on the 23d, when his Majesty in person took the oaths as Duke of Brabant.

DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE.

April 28. A loan for two millions and a half sterling was negociated in the city for she Emperor, at about seven and a half per cent interest.

His Majesty has granted a pension of 300l. to Mr. Cowper, author of The Task, &c. A Gazette Extraordinary announced the capture of the French frigates La Pomone, La Babet, and L'Engageante, with a very slight loss on the part of the English ships who took them, viz. the Flora, Arethusa, Melampus, and Concorde.

* We are assured that 300 were present.