Come, free my heart, I pr'ythee do, Or make my perfon pris'ner too, ON MR. MANNERS'S MARRIAGE WITH THE DUCHESS OF ROXBURGH. WHEN Roxburgh with Cupid refolv'd to enlist, And ferve under Hymen's gay banners, The little God gave her wit, beauty, and wealth, And, to perfect the prefent, good Manners. THE MOTHER'S BREAST. [From Darwin,] ONNUBIAL fair!. whom no fond tranfport warms Who, blefs'd in vain with tumid bofoms, hears w, પો Oft hears the gilded couch unpitied plains, ba And many a tear the taffel'd cushion ftains! No voice fo fweet attunes his cares to reft, So foft no pillow as his mother's breaft! Clafps her fair nurfeling in delighted arms For when the mother, bending o'er his charms, Throws the thin 'kerchief from her neck of frowy jadw And half unveils the pearly, orbs below; With fparkling eye the blameless, plund'rer owns The foft embraces, and endearing tones,qa ɔii ni karti Seeks the falubrious fount with open lips, Spreads his inquiring hands, and smiles, and fips. Shed their foft influence on celeftial bowers, Shuts his white wings, and fleeps on Beauty's shrine. THE IN THE TURF. [From the Morning Chronicle.] MR. EDITOR, N a late trial respecting the validity of an eccentric nobleman's will, among other matters advanced by an eminent counsel in favour of his Lordship's fanity, it was stated, that "nobody could out-calculate Lord Cat Newmarket, the very last place where an inJane perfon, or one of dull intellect, ought to be trufted." I have no objection, Sir, to a counsel's advancing any thing he may think beneficial to his caufe; but I humbly think Mr. Garrow might have been content with proving Lord C's calculating talents, without characterizing Newmarket in the manner done in these remarkable words in italics. I hope he did not mean to destroy the trade of the place, or to impeach the character of those who contribute to make that trade profitable; yet I must take the liberty to say, that if he thought that Newmarket can go on and profper, without the affiftance of perfons who are either infane or of dull intellect, he knows very little of the bufinefs carried on there, and fees to be little acquainted with the very great use of infanity and dull injellet in thofe transfers of property which distinguish that ancient school of experience. Keep away perfons who are either infane, or of dull intellect, and what would become of those who have all their wits about them? Deny access to the flats, and what would become of the tharps? It is the happy mixture of both which produces the harmony of the place, and enables young gentlemen, not remarkably gifted in the upper parts, to refign their property, and ometimes their character, not only without murmur or blame, but even with a degree of fatisfaction and eclat, which we meet with in the cafe of no other loffes and difappointments incident to human nature. I am, Sir, yours, Devil's Ditch, July 15. F. FLATMAN. -SUPPRESSION SUPPRESSION OF NEWS. [From the Morning Herald.] MR. EDITOR, BEING very fincerely friendly to your Paper, and efpecially to one perfon, who, as I fufpect, ftill retains a confiderable interest in it, I am tempted to give you a little lecture on your conduct. I addrefs you in confequence of the information I received from the two following paragraphs in yesterday's Morning Poft, viz. "Mr. Fox, we find, is far from being in an improved state of health. The Chairman of the Eaft India Directors waited on him yesterday at an early hour, by appointment, on bufinefs of confiderable im portance; but ere the conference had far proceeded, Mr. Fox is faid to have falien afleep, in which flate the Chairman left him." Poor Fox!-But here follows the more piteous cafe of a lady: "Mrs. Fitzherbert is fo feriously indifpofed, that her life is confidered by the Faculty in extreme dangers Her diforder is faid to be a cancer, which has appearedy attended by the moft alarming Symptoms."ha Now pray, Mr. Editor, how came you to conceal thefe important facts from the Public? With regard to Mr. Fox, you may perhaps plead your actual know ledge, that the Chairman of the Eat India Company had never been near him, and that he (Mr. Fox) was much better yesterday than face his indifpofition feized him; and perhaps you might add, had thei been any foundation for the tale, that Drs. Mofeleys or Vaughan would in future as foon preferibe an Eaft India Director as a dofe of laudanum. But as to Mrs. Fitzherbert, why have you concealed this cancer, Mr. Editor? Answer me that, if you please Don't pretend ignorance; it is too late. The whole VOL. X. N Aruth truth of that unfortunate lady's deplorable fituation must now come out; and, if you are fhy of communicating it, the Morning Poft will have all the credit and advantage of delighting its liberal fupporters with the welcome detail. You well know, Mr. Editor, that this cancer, although beyond doubt incurable, is the least among the various and complicated maladies which affail her. You well know that she has had two paralytic ftrokes, and been thrice tapped for the droply. You cannot pretend ignorance of the lofs of her left eye, and the ufe of her right arm. It has been impoffible to conceal the ftrange variety of diforders that have afflicted her. She is reduced to a perfect fkeleton, in confequence of not tafting food or liquid for more than three months; yet has the all the while wonderfully increased in bulk and weight. It is af certained, that the fymptom which oft alarmed her physician was a conftant overpowering lethargy, which fo indifpofed her to all motion, that the lay apparently fenfelefs on a couch through the whole four-and-twenty hours, while, at the very fame time, fhe was fo vifited by St. Vitus's Dance, that the actually fnapped the fmall bone of her right leg in hopping a reel with Lord Sligo and Lord Dorchefter. You, Mr. Editor, I am confident, are apprized that in confequence of this accident, and through unfkilful management, amputation has been fince unavoidably reforted to; and that, although the other leg has made a good temporary retreat under the fhelter of lethargy, it is the decided opinion of the attending Faculty, that it must thare the fame fate within a fortnight. How curious is it to remark, that this painful accident happened to Mrs. Fitzherbert in Tilney Street, at the very moment when Sir W. Elphinftone's eloquence fet Charles Fox a-fnoring in the Stable-yard! Stick to facts-I have done, however, for the prefent. But mark, Mr. Editor, if you con tinue tinue to conceal undeniable truths, like the foregoing, while, with fo commendable a fpirit and accuracy,. they are revealed by other Papers, you fhall hear from me again with a vengeance. July. Yours, &c. LUTHER. THE CAT AND CHICKENS; OR, "KIND AFTER THE GREEK. BY OLD NICK. Efopus ille e Phrygia fabulator, lepide atque jucunde præmonet. AUL. GELLIUS, Lib. 2. No&t. Att. SOME Chickens fick, forbid to roam, Who, being out, would fain get in, Or rather, p'rhaps, they knew the Cat; APPLICATION. Whether with doctor or without A patient's better, fome may doubt- N,2 LORD |