A New COUNTRY DANCE. Let's lofe no Time. The firft couple foot it, caft off, and lead up and caft off; the fecond couple does the fame cross over, and half figure with the third couple : lead up, caft off and turn. T ARIDDLE for the Ladies. By H. T. O you, ye fair, who ev'ry month Our Magazine explore, I now appeal, who never yet And humbly hope, in the next Mag, You'll let me know my name. But neither head, nor arms, nor legs, Yet often conquer hearts. For For colour, like the circling bow, And what in foreign climes is done, Sometimes the rifing fun I fhow, Which gilds the eastern hills; The feeding flocks, the piping fwains, The brooks, and purling rills. At others represent the fea, Where boift'rous billows roll; And often fhew the cunning wag, Who bottled all the cole. But you from each indecent fight, And hide the virtuous glowing cheek, (Where powder'd fops wou'd Dem me say) Not fortune's frowns with this can e'er compare, When love's difdain'd, nought then is worth our care; Great are the risks, that foldiers undergo, Lucinda fair, the pride of Cambrian plains, Heard all my love,-and pitied all my pains; My flame approv'd, with equal ardour burn'd, A figh for figh, and love for love return'd; Blefs'd in my love, I wanted nothing more, Nor courted fortune for her fickle ftore, Monarchs, compar'd to me, I deem'd but poor: 1 Others may figh for titles, wealth, or fame, But now, the scene how chang'd, why frowns my fair? Strephon's no more the lov'd Lucinda's care. What can it mean? Loves the fome happier fwain? Ah! no, the perjur'd fair is fway'd by gain: Nor thought Lucinda's love would change fo foon. Think Heav'n will punish this your perfidy; Think, cruel fair, how perjur'd you will be, Since fordid wealth has thus poffefs'd your foul, you I fcorn a part, without the whole. Long may you live, in all the pomp of Late, But never know my miferable fate. In fome rude cliff, where defolation reigns, roam, nor ever fee those fatal plains; There rue my fate, forget the world and you; Yet, e're I go,-now take this last adieu; I Both good and fair, almost from errors free, T A part of a river a ford we do name, R. K Farewel all foft ideas of the mind, Farewel to love!-and faithless woman-kind. T. T An ODE on the uncommon Phænomena, which C Hos. L. II. O. 15. cell; O ME, contemplation! from the cave, Where nature fcoop'd a living grave, And deign to quit a while thy mofs-roof'd Nor blush to meet the lamp of day, Which night's dark fhadows drives away, And all our guilty horrors does difpell. Da Olet Olet us range the world around, mourn, To pamper'd Lords; whom partial fate But fhakes for all alike one common urn. Where once with fpotless luftre bright fhe And weeps to fee how few have stood While Hydra vice erects her ebon throne. With humble fwains to find a fafe retreat; But foon the fweet Pimpleen maids, fword; Our age, diftain'd with crimson dyes, [LOR D. And turrets on her quiv'ring bofom nod; Whilft Infidels in luft and wine, Would fcoff at judgments fo divine, Now all again appears ferene, No breeze to ftir the leaves is feen, And a continu'd drought the glebe does bine. The fcaly race in March, with flies of May. E're April funs earth's pregnant bofom warm; The Bees, that with unceafing toils O'er Belgic towns, while Cynthia fhone New meteors in the horizon play, A midnight's folemn thought awaking scene. The empty tall our public fins arraigns; To dire difeafe, wafting our fruitful plains. Th' unnumber'd dead both India's fhores Lo earth and feas confefs the deep felt-Go D. But ceafe, O ceafe, thefe plaintive lays, So when from Pharoah's bondage free, Ifrael approach'd the Egyptian fea, In cryftal walls the waves aftonish'd stood: And felt Jehovah in the whelming flood. T See peace her dove-like wings difplays, O yet avert thy wrath! fevere, tho' flow; A Queftion in Gauging. HREE men A, B, C, bought a cafk of brandy, the heads of which are unequal; the form of it, the middle fruftum of a fpheroid and dimenfions as follows: Bung diameter 38 inches, greater head diameter 34, leffer head diameter 30, length 50. They agreed, that (the cask being placed with its axis parallel to the horizon) A should draw out his part first, By T. W. after which the furface of the brandy, remaining in the cask, fhould be exactly 9 inches diftant from the bung; then B fhould draw out his part; and after that the furface of the brandy, remaining in the cask, fhould be exactly 25 inches diftant from the bung; and that C should take what then remained. Queft. How many gallons had each perfon for his fhare? A Question. By John Young. Have the promise of a purfe of guineas, upon condition I can tell the number, and I have this given The fum doubled, and twenty-mere : than the fquare root of the Sum added to itfelf; this, added to its fquare, is equal to 194040 guincas.. The The PROCEEDINGS in the laft Seffions of PARLIAMENT, begun on November 16, 1749: H IS Majefty King George II. opened this feffion with a moft gracious fpeech, in which he congra tulates the Representatives of the nation, with the re establishment of a general peace, and more particularly for its good effects it has had already, towards the restoring our commerce, and raifing the public credit. He affures them of his conftant endeavours to cement and secure the faid peace; and of his refolution to do all in his power to preferve it; and to adhere religiously to the engagements he has entered into. He then informs them of the good difpofition of all the contracting pow ers to pursue the fame good end. But adds, That nothing can contribute fo much to the continuance and improvement of this happy fituation of affairs, as the effectual Supporting of that weight and influence, which properly belong to the crown of Great Britain. He recommends to the House of Commons the maintaining the fleet in its full ftrength, and to reduce the national debt, with a ftrict regard to public faith, and private property, defiring no more fupplies than fhall be found necef. fary, from the estimates ordered to be laid before them, for the fecurity and welfare of the nation; and then concludes: I My Lords and Gentlemen, Have nothing to defire of you, but that you would, with unanimity and difpatch, purfue fuch measures, as may be soft conducive to your own real and lafting intereft. Whatever good laws you fhall propofe for the advancement of our trade and navigation, and for encouraging of induftry in all parts of the kingdom, will be extremely acceptable to me; and you may be affured, that I fhall always look upon the true greatness of my crown, and the stability of my government, as infeparably united with the happiness and profperity of my people. 1 On the 18th the Commons addreffed his Majefty for the same, and received a moft gracious anfwer. On the 20th it was refolved nem. con. That a fupply be granted to his Majefty; which refolution was agreed to next day, and the Friday following was appointed for a Committee of the whole House, to confider of the fupply granted to his Majefty. And, the proper estimates being laid before them, the Commons, in a grand Committee, did on the 27th agree, That 10,000 men be employed for the fea fervice for the year 1750, at 4. per man, including the ordnance for fea fervice, in all, 520,000 7. Nesvember 28, it was refolved, after a long debate, and on the 29th it was agreed, in order to reduce the national debt, that fuch as fhall fubfcribe their names to accept of 3 per Cent. interest from December 25, 1757, fhall receive 4 per Cent. intereft till Dec. 25, 1750. And 31. 10 s. per Cent. till December 25, 1757. And that the furpluffes of fuch funds, after December 25, 1750, fhall be made part of the finking fund; and then the grand Committee, confidering further of the fupply to be granted, Refolved and agreed, That 18857 land forces be employed in Great Britain, Guernsey, and Jerfey, for the year 1750, including 1815 Invalids, and commiffion and non-commiffion Officers, at the charge of 628230% 45. 7d. And that a further fum of 2364201. 18 s. 6 d. half-penny, be granted for forces and garrifons in the Plantations, Minorca, Gibraltar, Nova Scotia, Newfoundland, and Providence, for the year 1750. The faid Committee, on the fourth of December, agreed to the report of the refolutions of Friday last, viz. That the fum of 293625 1. be granted for the ordinary of the navy for the year 1750. That the fum of 10,000 7. be granted for the fupport of Greenwich Hofpital in 1750. That |