What can the peerlefs Cibber do alone, "Mongft bodies fo opake, fo bright a ray? Like life, 'midft heaps of uninformed frone, He fhews the vileness of the neighboring clay: And bid the genius laugh her cares away : And farting forth, Nor be that all the faid; In Laudem Ignorantiæ. Ignorance! tho' knowledge bates thy name, And fcholars count thy badge their greatest jiame, Wide is thy rule; no part of earth is free Where thousands do not bonage pay to thee. Knowledge, with all her arts and pow'r,does find Ignorance governs most of human kind. The populace admire thy gentle fway, And hate the larus of knowledge to obey. The arts and Sciences give them offence, And they are happy in their ignorance. Free from the fubtle fatefman's cares they live, And are content with what kind beav'n will give. [them gaze; Honour's bright sphere may fometimes make But they are never left in bonour's maze. Unknowing bow to rije, they mind it not; And never fear to fuffer for a plot. Rural affairs they know, but learning hate; And think it ufelefs in the church and state. Their thoughts are bufy about humble things, And they more happy are than potent kings. While spirits more refin'd, from day to day, With too much thought make life too fast decay. Eager to know what is above their reach, For empty vifions their great fouls they ftretch. When ebbing life is spent, they find, too late, Knowledge is planted in the future ftate: That what they hop'd to find on earth, they want, And, after all their pains, are ignorant. The fcholar, and the dunce, at death, will find, Virtue did, more than knowledge, grace the mind. But when themfelves bad reach'd the day of grace, They chang'd their principles, as well as place. From meffengers fecure no printer lies, They take compoftors, press-men, devils, flies. What means this change? The fum of all the ftory's, Tories depreft are Whigs, and Whigs in pow'r are Tories. An ODE on his Majefty's Birth-Day, by Colley Cibber, Efq;. LET there be light! [beav'n; Such was at once the word and work of When, from the void of univerfal night, Free nature sprung to the creator's fight, And day to glad the new-born world was giv'n. Air. Succeeding days to ages roll'd, And every age fome wonder told: At length arofe this glorious morn! When, to extend his bounteous porv'r, High beav'n announc'd, this infant bour The best of monarchs shall be born! Born to protect and bless the land! And rubile the laws his people form, His Jeepter glories to confirm, Their wishes are his fole command. The word that form'd the world In vain had made mankind; Unless bis paffions to refrain Almighty wifdom bad design'd, Sometimes a William, or a George fhould reign! Yet farther, Britons, caft your eyes, Bebeld a long fucceffion rife Of future fair felicities. Air. Around the royal table spread, When fhall this promis'd land } All we can farther afk, or heav'n bestow, Is, that we long this happiness may know. Air. While or our vanquish'd hearts alone Our peaceful prince would greatly reign, He binds obedience to bis throne, And baughty Britain bugs her chain. Her jealous fons, in George fecure, A bappier ftate than freedom brafts; For avbile bis kind commands allure, Freedom in hearts refign'dis loft. Air. Sing, joyous Britons, fing The glorious natal day That gave, with such a king, Chorus. His realms around From ports to fleets the jovial cannon play, Receives the rolling roar, Ccc 2 The The GENTLEMAN's Monthly Intelligencer. T OCTOBER, 1732. WEDNESDAY, Oct. 4. Court of Spain, paffed THURSDAY, 5. The Spanish Ambaffador went to Kensington, was introduced to his Majefty, and delivered his Credentials. He was afterwards introduced to the Queen. A Court of Common - Council was held at Guild-Hall, in which a Bill was read for levying on the Inhabitants of the City, upwards of 2400 /. for fupporting the Lender Work-Houfe. MONDAY, 9. B The thirteen following Malefactors were executed at Tyburn, viz. John The Corpfe of Robert Wilks, Elq; Drew, alias Johnson, William Flemthe celebrated Actor, was carried ming, Benjamin Loveday alias Lovejoy, from his late Dwelling-Houfe in Richard Griffith, Edward Dalton, Bow-ftreet, Covent-Garden, about 12 Charles Patrick alias Captain Cartouch, at Night, and decently interred in the William Mead, Vyner White, John Parish Church of St. Paul's Covent- C Vaughan, Edward Perkins, John MacGarden: The Funeral was very pri- grady, John Bumpus, and William vate, according to his own Defire. Shelton the Apothecary; Jofeph PowThe Gentlemen of the Chapel-Royal is having been reprieved from Exevoluntarily attended at the Ceremony, cution for feven Days. The eleven and performed a fine Anthem, to first were conveyed from Newgate to fhew their Regard to his Memory. the Tree in four Carts, Bumpus in a D (See p. 317.) Mourning Coach, and Shelton in a Hackney one. Griffith made a Speech to the People as foon as he was in the Cart, declaring himself innocent of the Murder of Waller, for which he was to fuffer; he alfo took the Sacrament upon the fame, and perfifted in it to the laft; and Edward Perkins threw a Letter amongst the Populace. Jofeph Powis was executed the Monday following. The five Clifford William Phillips, Efq; and Capt. Wilkinjon, two of the Committee of the Charitable Corporation, found three Books belonging to Mr. Thompjon, concealed in a Cieling of their House on Laurence-PountneyHill; one was a Ledger of the whole Affair from the Time of his Entrance into that Office to the Day of his going off. E others others were reprieved in order for Transportation. Lewis de Vic and Paul Cray to have Liberty to tranfport themselves into any foreign Kingdom. (See p. 312.) His Majefty has been pleased to grant his Commiffion to the Right Hon. the Lords of the Admiralty, empowering them to erect a Corporation for the Relief of the poor Widows of Sea- Officers; which Corporation is to confift of the Lords of the Admiralty for the Time being, the Commiffioners of the Navy and Victualling-Office for the Time being, and fo many of the eldest Captains and Lieutenants in the Navy, &c. Each Officer in the Navy is at his Pleasure to fign towards it; thofe that fign are to pay 3d. per Pound out of their Pay per Ann. and those that do not fign are excluded the Benefit. His Majefty has been gracioufly pleased to grant for the promoting fo good a Defign 10,000l. and the Lords of the Admiralty have figned in order to promote it; as have the Commiffioners of the Navy and Victualling. The faid Fund will be fettled thus: An Admiral's Widow to have 501. per Ann. a Captain's 401. a Lieutenant's 30l. and all other Officers Widows 201. each. There being an Officers Cheft at Chatham, which they pay to monthly, the fame will be taken into this Corporation, and the Widows who are on that Cheft will be allowed as mentioned. It having been humbly reprefented to his Majefty by Mr. Baron Thompfon, Recorder of the City of London, that his Majefty's Bounty of 100l. directed by Proclamation to be paid for apprehending and convicting any Highwayman or Street-Robber, who hath committed the Fact within five Miles of London, hath been a Temptation to wicked and profligate Perfons to make a Trade of Prolecutions for the Sake of fo large a Reward, whereby it may be feared many Per juries will happen, and innocent Lives be brought to Deftruction thro' this most infamous Practice; his Majefty, in tender Compaffion to his People, and an Abhorrence of fuch abominable Wickednefs, hath been moft graciously pleased to order, that the granting of his Majefty's faid Royal Bounty be left for the future entirely fubject to the Discretion of the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor for the Time being, and of the Judge who fhall have tried the Convicts, by whom the iffuing of fuch Rewards fhall be allowed or difallowed on every feveral Conviction, as they fhall fee Caufe from the Nature of the Crime, and from the Merits of the Profecution. FRIDAY, 13. The Seffions ended at the Old Bailey, when the four following Perfons received Sentence of Death, viz. John Jenkins, for Burglary, and ftealing a Quantity of Brafs and Pewter; Richard Marshal, for robbing of Justice Robe; John Booker, for cutting off a Gentlewoman's Pocket; and Katherine Saunders, for robbing her Master's Lodgings in the Temple. Two were burnt in the Hand, three order'd to be whipt, and 22 for Transportation. An Order was ftuck up at the Seffions-Houfe by Order of the Lord Mayor and Court of Aldermen, that all Prisoners acquitted, fhould be difcharged without paying Fees. At the Election of a Mayor at Chefer, the Candidates being Alderman Johnson and Alderman Ellams, fupported by the Grosvenor Intereft; and Alderman Mainwaring and Alderman Bennet, fet up by Mr. Brereton and Mr. Manley; there was the greatest Mobbing that had been known for many Years, about admitting a Number of honorary Freemen, &r. Alderman Johnson carried it. TUESDAY, 17. This Night was chofen the Ballat taken at the York-Buildings House, on on the following Queftion, mov'd and carried at a general Court on Thurfday the 12th Inftant: That in order to pay and difcharge the Debts of this Company, the Scheme now read and debated Paragraph by Paragraph, with the Additions and Amendments made thereto by this Court, fhall be put in Execution; and that the Governor and Court of Affiftants for the Time being, together with the Trustees, are, by the Authority of this General Court, impowered to make the feveral Calls, apply the Money, allow the Discounts, and to do every Act and Thing as is by the faid Scheme with the Additions and Amendments prescribed and required, and to take Advice of Counsel, in order to fettle and fecure in the best Manner the Distribution of the Produce of the Estates of this Company in England and Scotland for the Purposes mention'd in the faid Scheme, and that they print the faid Scheme with the Additions and Amendments as they now ftand. And upon Examination of the Glaffes the Votes were found to be as follow, viz. For the Question 348, against the Question 145. The Lord Mayor and Court of Aldermen pafs'd an Order, that the Bodies of all Prifoners that die in Newgate, fhall be deliver'd to their Friends to be buried as foon as the Coroner's Jury have fat on the fame, without paying the ufual Fees taken by the Goaler and Jury, and that the Goaler fhall take no Fee or Reward, and the Expences of the Coroner's Jury to be defrayed by the Sheriffs. They also agreed to an Order for the like Purpose to be obferv'd by the Keepers of Ludgate and the two Compters. FRIDAY, 20. A Country-like Gentleman came to the Dolphin-Inn without Bishopfgate, and hang'd himself in a Room; it is unknown at prefent, who he is, or from whence he came: He left these two Lines upon the Table in the Room, which, compared with fome Writings in his Pocket, proves to be his own Hand. From wicked and deceitful Men, A broken Heart, and a difrafted Brain. At a Diffenting Congregation in Paul's Alley near Barbican, a Collection was made for the poor Protellant Saltzburghers, forc'd out of their Country for their Religion; amounting to about 601. WEDNESDAY, 25. Sir John Eyles, Bart. together with feveral of the Directors of the SouthSea Company, went in a Body to wait upon his Excellency the Conde Montejo, Ambaffador Extraordinary from the Court of Spain, at his Houfe in Jermyn-ftreet, on Occafion of the News they received a Day or two ago by a Ship from Campechy, that the King of Spain's Orders were come to Vera Cruz for the South-Sea Company's Factor to depart that Place in 4 Months Time; because his Majesty's Ship Deal-Caftle, Capt. Aubin, had feiz'd a Spanish Register Ship, by Way of a Reprizal: His Excellency received them in a most courteous and polite Manner, and promil'd to write inftantly to his Court upon this Subject: The faid Directors have also prefented a Memorial to his Grace the Duke of Newcastle upon the same Subject. THURSDAY, 26. Sixty eight Men and 50 Women, Felons convict, were carried from Newgate to Black-Fryars, and put on board a Lighter, in order to be carry'd down the River, to be fhip'd on board the Cefar, off of Deptford, for Transportation to Virginia. MONDAY, 30. This being the Anniversary of his Majefty's Birth-Day, there was a great Appearance of the Nobility and Foreign Ministers at Court, to compliment his Majefty, who then enter'd into the 50th Year of his Age. Age. The fame was alfo obferved throughout the Cities of London and Westminster, with great Rejoicings. Jobn Barber, Efq; Lord-Mayor elect, went up with the ufual State to the Exchequer Bar at Westminster, and was fworn Lord Mayor of Lon don for the Year ensuing, with the accustom❜d Ceremony. His Lordfhip afterwards went to a magnificent Entertainment provided at Guildhall; at which were prefent feveral of the Judges, &. And the Evening was concluded with a Ball. Ecclefiaftical PREFERMENTS. Mr. Mark Johnson prefented by the Lord Chancellor to the Living of Knewl in the County and Diocese of Lincoln, void by the Refignation of the laft Incumbent. Mr. John Wilson, to the Rectory of Alford in the County of Surrey, and Diocese of Chichester. Mr. Pilkington appointed Chaplain to the Lord Mayor Elect. Dr. Holmes of St. John's-College in Oxford, elected Vice-Chancellor of that University, in the room of Dr. Butler. Thomas Mountgatryd, D. D. prefented by the Lord Chancellor to the Vicarage of Lofthoufe in the County and Diocese of York, void by the Refignation of the laft Incumbent. Mr. James Norton, to the Vicarage of St. Leonard in Wallingford, Berks, void by the Promotion of the last Incumbent. The Bishop of London has prefented Mr. Cartwright to the Rectory of Hornfey in Middlesex. The Bishop of Durham has prefented Mr. Stilling fleet to the Rectory of Bishops Weremouth in that Diocefe. Mr. John Sandish, A. B. to the Vicarage of Suddington, in the County of Leicester, void by the Refignation of the laft Incumbent. The Lord Bishop of London appointed Mr. Boleander to be Chaplain of the Lutheran Church at St. James's, PROMOTIONS Civil and Military. The Duke of St. Alban's, Conftable of Windfor-Caftle and Lord Warden of the Foreft, appointed Richard Aldworth, Efq; his Lieutenant and Deputy-Warden, in the room of the Hon. Francis Negus, Efq; deceas'd. Edward Burton, Efq; made Receiver-General of his Majefty's Revenues in Wales. Solomon Abley, Efq; Chofen Governor of the Copper-Miners, and Peter Hartopp, Efq; Deputy Governor. Thomas Walker, of Wimbleton, in Surrey, Efq; one of the Commiffioners of the Customs, appointed Surveyor of his Majefty's CrownLand Revenue, in the room of Exton Sayer, L. L. D. deceas'd. Thomas Parr, of Datchet in the County of Bucks, Efq; appointed Receiver-General of the Land-Tax and Duty on Houses for the faid County, in the room of William Hartley, Efq; who resign'd. George Earl of Cholmondeley, appointed Governor of Guernsey, in the room of Lieutenant-General Harvey, deceas'd. Col. Edward Montagu, Governor of Hull, in the room of the Earl of Cholmondeley. Capt. John Prefton, Town-Major of Gibraltar, in the room of Capt. Robert Johnfion. The Earl of Strathmore, Captain of a Company in Brigadier-General Barrel's Regiment of Foot, in the room of Capt. Gerard Leighton, deceas'd. Mr. Locke, Brother to Sir John Locke, chofe Husband to the Turkey Company. Richard Bignion, Efq; appointed by the Directors of the E. India Company to be Governor of Fort St. George in the Eaft Indies, in the room of George Morton Pitt, Efq; who is ordered home. Captain |