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O! OCEAN! thou guardian and friend to mankind,
To the best of thy favours how many are blind!
The Merchant, who cares but to live like himself,
Extols thee for floating home coffers of pelf:
The Alderman pours out his thanks to his God
Who stock'd thee with salmon, and turbot, and cod:
The Scholar, who knows not the blessings of home,
Sings thy waves so transporting which grant him to roam,
And shew him old Peloponnesus at Rome :
Which lead him to climes, fam'd for Pompeys and Neros,
And bring him to plains, trod by Consuls and Heroes :
While Philosophers, poring from midnight till noon,
Make us stare with their tales of thy jig to the moon.
But I thy waves honour, with just veneration,
For diffusing such good o'er the whole of this nation.

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In infancy, thou, while we struggle and squall,
Driv'st off scrophula, rickets, and weakness, and all:
'Tis thou giv'st to Jacky and Susan, sweet pair,
The blessing they 'ave languish'd so long for-an heir;
Returning from thee, with thy bounties elate,

Sue brings home a boy to retain the estate :

'Tis thou giv'st the rake, weak with revels and pain,
To pick up his crumbs, and go to it again:
'Tis thou giv'st Demirep, slave to disease,
Again to recover her talent to please.

'Tis the virtue supreme of thy catholic wave,

That so many poor mortals each summer doth save,
That, as potent as magic, the aged makes young,
And turns, by its tonic, the tender to strong:
That rescues their lives from the grave and from crutches,
If it wash but a beggar, a Duke or a Duchess.
Then O may thy waters for ages yet longer
Continue this nation to cleanse and make stronger,
May they wash off decrepitude, lengthen our lives,
And fasten the knot 'twixt our Husbands and Wives;
Grant them conjugal bliss, such as sent from above,
And give them each year a sweet pledge of their love:
Make us potent in council and wise in debate,

To keep off our enemies far from our State.
And O! may thy borders each Summer display
A group thus harmonious, thus lively, and gay,
Where, unanimous all, there's no struggle or strife,
But to throw away money, and treasure up life.
Margate, September 20.

My

IMITATION

OF THE

ANGLO-LATIN EPIGRAM,

Non ipse----sed tipse, &c.

HE tumbles about like a ball, I must own;
And, in keeping it UP, he oft knocks himself DOWN,
If he long perseveres in this draining the cup,

By falling so oft-he will knock himself up.

Then how foolish he'll feel, when he sees-looking round,
Though 'tis all up with him-he's laid low in the ground.

December.1

THE HISTORICAL,

BIOGRAPHICAL, LITERARY, AND SCIENTIFIC

MAGAZINE,

FOR

DECEMBER 1799.

CONDUCTED BY

ROBERT BISSET, LL. D.

WITH THE ASSISTANCE OF OTHER LITERARY GENTLEMEN,

THIS NUMBER IS EMBELLISHED WITH A PORTRAIT OF THE

RIGHT HON. LORD VISCOUNT DUNCAN,

ADMIRAL OF THE WHITE, AND KNIGHT OF THE RUSSIAN IMPERIAL ORDER OF ST. ALEXANDER NEWSKI.

LONDON:

PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY

G. CAWTHORN, BRITISH LIBRARY, NO. 132, STRAND, BOOKSELLER TO HER ROYAL HIGHNESS THE PRINCESS OF WALES: SOLD ALSO BY MESSRS. RICHARDSON, ROYAL-EXCHANGE; H. D. SYMONDS, J. WALLIS, WEST AND HUGHES, PATERNOSTER-ROW; J. WRIGHT, PICCADILLY; P. HILL, EDINBURGH; AND ALL THE BOOKSELLERS IN TOWN AND COUNTRY.

TO READERS AND CORRESPONDENTS.

THE LIFE OF SHERIDAN, is unavoidably postponed.

Improvements in the management of this Publication are intended for the commencement of the year.

In order to bring down the History, Literature, and Science of the year 1799 to its conclusion, it is intended to subjoin a SUPPLEMENTARY NUMBER, containing also such other subjects, peculiar to that period, as have been either cursorily noticed, or passed over altogether.

The poetical contributions of R. A. D. came too late to hand for insertion in the present Number. Other favours received are under consideration. The request of E. S. J. shall be attended to.

то

THE HISTORICAL,

BIOGRAPHICAL, LITERARY, AND SCIENTIFIC

MAGAZINE,

FOR THE

YEAR 1799.

CONDUCTED BY

ROBERT BISSET, LL. D.

WITH THE ASSISTANCE OF OTHER LITERARY GENTLEMEN.

LONDON:

PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY

G. CAWTHORN, BRITISH LIBRARY, NO. 132, STRAND,
BOOKSELLER TO HER ROYAL HIGHNESS THE PRINCESS OF WALES:

• SOLD ALSO BY MESSRS, RICHARDSON, ROYAL-EXCHANGE; H. D. SYMONDS, J. WALIIS, WEST AND HUGHES, PATERNOSTER-ROW; J. WRIGHT, PICCADILLY; P. HILL, EDINBURGH; AND ALL THE BOOKSELLERS IN TOWN AND COUNTRY.

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