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Bank, and the Cafhier of the Bank is to give receipts for the monies paid in, which are affignable at any time before the 5th of December, 1761. The Cafhier alfo is to give fecurity, and to pay the monies into the Exchequer. The monies arifing by the duties of this act are appropriated to the payment of the annuities.

The contributors not making good their payments within the times limited are to forfeit their depofits. Principal fums are to be placed to the credit of the refpective con

tributors, and the fame may be affigned, and carry annuities of 31. per cent. The Accomptant-general is to give credit for the fums named in the certificates, which may be transferred.

The annuities are to continue to be paid for 99 years. Deficiencies are to be made good out of the Sinking Fund, and to be replaced out of the firft fupplies; but furplus monies are referved for the difpofition of Parliament.

DESCRIPTION of the annexed MONUMENT, erected to the Memory of the brave CAPTAIN CORNWALL, who, after diftinguishing himself by bis Heroifm, was unhappily flain in the Battle between the English Fleet, commanded by the Admirals Matthews and Leftock, and that of the French and Spaniards, off Toulon in the Mediterranean.

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HIS monument was erected to his honour by order of Parliament, and is a noble teftimony of the public gratitude for his diftinguifhed merit. It is on the fouth fide of the great weft entrance of Westminster abbey. On the back is a lofty pyramid of Egyptian marble, beautifully variegated and finely polished, standing on a bafe of the fame marble. Upon this bafe is a rock of white marble, along the different parts of which run fea-weeds. Near the top ftands a fine figure of Fame, placing a medallion of the Captain on the fummit of the rock; underneath which is a naval crown, a globe, the trumpet of Fame, and other ornaments; and behind rifes to the top of the pediment a palm intwined with a

laurel. On the other fide of the medallion stands a beautiful figure of Britannia, with the British lion couchant at her feet. Beneath, in an opening of the rock, is the fubjoined Latin infcription, on a fine piece of polished porphyry, mentioning his defcent, and the manner of his death, which happened, while fighting for his country, on the 3d of February, 1743, in the 45th year of his age, and that the Senate of Britain confecrated this monument to his memory. In another opening of the rock, a little lower, is represented in bass relief a view of the engagement in which this great man perifhed; and at the bottom of the rock on the fides lie cannons, flags, anchors, &c. all of white marble.

INTER PRISTINAE VIRTVTIS MONVMENTA
HAC IN AEDE SACRA CONSERVETVR NOMEN

IACOBI CORNEWALL

HENRICI CORNEWALL DE CASTRO BRADWARDINO
IN AGRO HEREFORDIENSI ARMIGERI

E FILIIS NATV TERTII

QVI DE PERVETVSTA ET ILLVSTRI PLANTAGENISTARVM STIRPE ANIMVM VERE PRISCVM DVCENS

RERVM NAVALIVM DVX EVASIT FACILE PERITISSIMVS BRITONVM AEQVE LACHRYMIS ATQVE APPLAVSV MERITO DECORATVS QUIPPE QUI PATRIAE CAVSAM

IN NAVALİ ILLO TELONEM IŸXTA CERTAMINE STRENVE PROPVGNANS PLVMBI IVGALIS ICTV VTROQUE PARITER TRVNCATVS CRVRE ARDOREM SVVM COMMILITONIBVS SUPREMVM MVNVS MORIENTIS LEGANS OCCVBVIT INVICTVS

III ID. FEB. A. D. MDCCXLIII AETAT. SUAE XLVI
CVIVS EXIMIA VIRTVS

AMPLIORI ELOGIO AD POSTERITATIS INCITATIONEM COMMENDARI NEQVIIT
QVAM HONORIS EXEMPLO PLANE SINGVLARI
OVÝM VNANIMI SVFFRAGIO PVBLICIS EXPENSIS
HOC MONVMENTVM VIRI FORTISSIMI MEMORIAE
SENATVS BRITANNICVS CONSECRARI VOLVIT

See our Magazine for February, 1755, page 91; where the reader will find an
English tranflation of this monumental infcription.

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Miss and the BUTTERFLY, a FABLE. In the Manner of the late Mr. Gay.

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Tender mifs, whom mother's care
Bred up in wholsome country air,
Far from the follies of the town,
Alike untaught to fmile or frown;
Her ear unus'd to flatt'ry's praife,
Unknown in woman's wicked ways;
Her tongue from modifh tattle free,
Undipp'd in fcandal and bohea;
Her genuine form and native grace
Were ftrangers to a looking-glass:
Nor cards the dealt, nor flirted fan,
And valu'd not quadrille or man;
But fimple liv'd, just as you know
Mifs Cloe did- -fome weeks ago,

As now the pretty innocent
Walk'd forth to taste the early fcent,
She trip'd about the murm'ring ftream,
That oft had lull'd her thoughtless dream.
The morning fweet, the air ferene,
A thousand flow'rs adorn'd the fcene;
The birds rejoicing round appear
To chufe their conforts for the year;
Her heart was light, and full of play,
And, like herfelf, all nature gay.

On fuch a day, as fages fing,
A butterfly was on the wing;

From tank to bank, from bloom to bloom,
He trach's the gold-befpangled plume:
New.kims along, and now lights
As fmell allures, or grace invites ;

Now the violet's freshness fips;
Now kifs'd the rofe's fcarlet lips;
Becomes anon the daisy's guest,
Then prefs'd the lily's fnowy breaft;
Nor long to one vouchsafes a stay,
But just falutes, and flies away.

The virgin faw with rapture fir'd;
She faw, and what the faw defir'd,
The fhining wings, and ftarry eyes,
And burns to feize the living prize:
Her beating breast and glowing face
Betray her native love of drefs,
And all the woman full expreft
First flutters in her little breast:
Eninar'd by empty outward fhow,
She fwift purfues the infect-beau;
O'er gay parterres fhe runs in haste,
Nor heads the garden's flow'ry wafte.

Long as the fun, with genial pow'r
Increafing, warm'd the fultry hour,
The nymph o'er every border flew,
And kept the fhining game in view:
But when, foft breathing thro' the trees,
With coolness came the evening-breeze;
As hov'ring o'er the tulip's pride
He hung with wing diversify'd,
Caught in the hollow of her hand,
She held the captive at command.

Flutt'ring in vain to be releas'd,
He thus the gentle nymph addrefs'd:
Loofe, gen'rous virgin, loofe my chain;
From me what glory canft thou gain?
A vain, unquiet, glitt'ring thing,
My only boast a gorgeous wing ;
From flow'r to flow'r I idly ftray,
The trifler of a fummer's day:
Then let me not in vain implore,
But leave me free again to foar.

His words the little charmer mov'd,
She the poor trembler's fuit approv'd.
His gaudy wings he then extends,
And flutters on her fingers ends:
From thence he spoke, as you shall hear,
In ftrains well worth a woman's ear.
When now thy young and tender age
Is pure, and heedlefs to engage
When in thy free and open mein
No felf important air is feen;
Unknowing all, to all unknown,
Thou liv'ft, or prais'd, or blam'd by none.
But when, unfolding by degrees
The woman's fond defire to please,
Studious to heave the artful figh,
Mistress of the tongue and eye,
Thou fett'ft thy little charms to show,
And sports familiar with the beau ;
Forfaking then the fimple plain,
To mingle with the courtly train,
Thou in the midnight ball fhalt fee
Things apparell'd just like me';
Who round and round, without defign,
Tinsel'd in empty luftre fine:
As dancing thro' the fpacious dome,
From fair to fair the frifkers roam,
If charm'd with the embroider'd pride,
The victim of a gay out-fide,

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