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~~ Vi i~ < ~, ~~ 1 " , X' NUMBER 76.1 • ' VICTUALLING-OFFICE, MARCH 25, 1801 THE Commis:4nm for Victualling bir Afdje:ty' Navy do hereby g ere Notice, that on 11'sdisesday the zoo, lust they will be ready to remise Tenders, criting (sealed up) so many Bags of Biscuit, made from whole Neal, es the re epeeist Persons who may make Proposals thereof, will agree to deliver in the tonne if the eLsuing Month, in regsdat Weekly pro. portions, into His lessiesty's riduadling Stores at Deptford ; and to be paiJ for, by Bills payable with I•iVrest Nasty Days after date. The eenditi.ms If the Controa nmy be seen at the Setrctaris O ffi ce. 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LADIU ADD CENTLILMILI, THE additional Encouragement I have expe rienced, since I anuounecit loy intention of becoming a C.o h lidaie for a Seat in the Court of Dorectors, demands my vsztrnwst ackuowledgemeotg; and induces me to per4evere in s diuting the honour of your swpport, at the Annual Elcfrion In Apol next, when 1 p►opose humbly to submit my pretott slum to the &allot Should 1 have the good fortune to suc ceed, I will endeavour to demonstrate my gratitude, by my aoalutta and unremitting attention, to promote the interest of the East hsdis Company. 1 have the honour to b", with great respelt, Ladies and Gentlemen.. You', most obedieut t devoted kurable servant, Mark lane, Feb. 2, Ma. JOHN INGLIS. Mr. Ina Lies Committee will it daily at the Kin's Head Tavern, in the Poultry, from One o'Clock till Four, whew the presence of his Friends, or any communicatiou addressed to him will be esteemed a particular favour. STATE LOTTERY OFFICE, No. 26, Cornhill. x.l ESSRS. 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L.... ~ I I ° ~ . 4t. „ . ~., di. ... 1 4t , i . v .. ...• . ...,. • . 0 R, R Jl 7 ING L ITE.R aR Y ADV E R 7 1 1 S E 11. ---i-rs': :.K.R.7 ..t A 7 i PRICK SIXPENCE. in the Chair—the different Clauses were agreed to, aad the Report ordered to be received to-morrow. ILCIIESTEE ELECTION. Mr. Joan SMITH reported from the chest:et/ Committee, that they had come to a ution, that Trios( As PLUMMER, Esq. WI Lii# TYR.' Esq. bir WILLIAM MaeNeas, Ba Nips GRAHAM, Esq. were not duly elate u Parliament for the said Borough. That neither:the Petitions nor the Defence were frivolous or vexa; tious e arid that the last Elation for the said Be rough was a void Elation ; and that the Com mittee had further resolved, that there prevailed, during the said Elation, such a system of corrup tion and individual bribery, for the perpose of in fluencing the votes of the elators, that the Com mittee thought it necessary to submit them to the most serious consideration of the Howle,—and had further resolved, that ALEX•NDE:I DAVIDSON, of St. James's-square, JOiIN WHITE PARSONS, and Tnotans HAweies, had taken an au2ive part in the said system of corruption.—The Report having been brought up and read by the Clerk, Mr. J. SMITH then said, that wishing to give Gentlemen the necessary time for duly considering the subjal, he would move, that the Report be taken into con sideration on the undermentioned day after the ho lidays. The day appointed Was Friday the 221 of April. He then moved, that. the evidence given before the Committee be printed, and that the Mi nutesof their proceedings be laid on the Table, which was agreed to. He then moved, that a new writ be issued to return a Member to serve in Parlia ment for the Borough of Ikhester, in the room of Thomes Plurnmer, Esq. and Wm. Hunter, Lsq. whose elations had been declared void.—Ordered. A petition was presented from the Cotton-spin ners of Yorkshire, Leicestershire, and Derbyshire, against the Bill for regulating disputes between masters and servants in that trade. the petition was referred to a selet Committee , to which w, :s also referred the petition.; from the Manufaanters of Cotton in Scotland, to the same eficed. Mr. N. VANSITTART brougl.t up the Bill for granting an annuity of 10 , 001. to Rear-Admiral Sir James Saumarcz, and the Bill for raisingfour mil lions by loan on Exchequer Bills; which were read a first and ordered to be read a second time to-morrow. On the motion of Mr. Cottav, the Irish Ac- counts presented to the House were ordered to be printed. The Woolwich Oiclnance Bill was read a third time and passed. • After disposing of he otherbrders of the day, the House adjourned till to-morrow. • CARNIVAL AT:PARIS. --wee FROM. A . PARIS PAPER. Tim -ot three rows of carriages, a number of htckney-coachns, some cavalcades ? and an immense crowd of people on foot, have filled for two or thre., daps the whole extent of the Rut St. Honore, and a great part of the Boulrup.ds. Every body goes there to see masks ; and very fe* masks being to be seen,..thuse thatgo as spetators generally finish by ridiculing and laughing at one another. How is a Journalist to escape falling under the description of those laughers ? ' I, myself, mixed in the crowd, and. walked on the Boulevard; like other people. Thetwo first days the elegance•of some of the car- . riages attradled, my attention : one was particularly • remarked that had six horses, equipped and driven . in the Spanish fashion, bur preceded and followed by two English jockies. - The- tv® first 'days rather resembled the promenade to Longcharnps than the orgies of the Carnival ; the third day, however, pre sented some few disguises. Among the charades' must remarked, was. a French Knight on horse back, followed by his Squire, and preceded by two Heralds at, Arrni. , The dross of those four per sonages was very exth, and the armour appeared to have been taken frUrri some- old arsenal. Those who went disguised tts friars or nuns were but few, and the crowd either did not look at the - in at all, fo paid tl-mn very little attention. A woman dressed a female Savoyard, in an open cabriolet, with a young officer paying his court taller, were among; . the must conspicuous figures. Thor, who run on foot threngh the difFerent streets for the purpose of seeing: mask;, were less - numerous than- formerly,. and one might say the Carnival was seized with la. Grippe,- - Som.-young men, dre , t• in the extremity of the fashion. and with bootrwhich come above the kn:_e. and coats that only covered half the body, v en supposcli--by the crowd to have assumed this dress for the Carnival,. and 'they - cried out, " Here are yriore masques." , There were young, women also, who tool: the op. pertunity of the Carnival to put on male att;re; they seemed, however, tacitly to confess, tint was repugnant to the. Graces, and could only b.. done•at a time when all that is suitable and beeon,- hag is forgotten,,Fda woman may assume the dress of - a man. But the greatest nelliber of our beauties appeared in that light dress which best becomes them. 'the promenades were full of beauties, who vied with each other. As winter had caused them to disap pear for the last four mcuths, they were again bc held with peculiar pleasure - . Every body observe.'. that the flne.weather brought back the ladies to tilt' walks, as the spring brought back the flowers of rose. As fur me, in seeing them, I said, "La Gripp in the midst of its ravages, has spared the most par/oldie Creation." • Monday next the State Lottery commences draw-. ins : Tickets and Shares are on sale at -the corny?' of the Bank-buildings, Cornhill, and facing the ga e of the King's Mews, Charing-crcts, London, th.: Licensed- State Lottery Offices of R:cnAauso: , ,' `tiaoatizoit, and Co. ~Nr '1 _ WEDNESDAY, MARCH 30, 1803. LITERATURE. Est opera prdium cognwere. Hoe. - THE LIFE AND POSTHUMOUS WRIT/Nag OF MI.- LIAM COWPER, ESQ. BY WILLIAM HAYLEY. (Continued.) living given an abstract of the innocent and in• teresting life of Cowper, we will now proceed to lay before our readers such parts of Mr. Hayley's vo lumes, as may enable them to form a more intimate acquaintance with the author of the Task, and at the same time to appreciate the merits of his friendly biographer. Our first extra& shall be chosen with reference to the narrative in our last article, to which the following charaler of Coxper will con stitute a proper accompaniment. "6 The person and mind of Cowper seem to have been formed with equal kindness by nature, and it may be questioned if she ever bestowed on any man with a fonder prodigality, all the requisites to con ciliate affeetion / and tcrinspire respell. From his figure, as it first appeared to me in his sixty-second year, I shonhi imagine that he must have been very comely in his youth ; and little had time injured his countenance., since his features ex pressed at that period of life, all the power's of his mind, and all the sensibility of his heart. 46 He was of a middle stature, rather strong thin delicate in the form of his limbs; the coloui of his hair was a light brown, that of his eyes a blueish grey, and his complexion ruddy. In his dress he was neat, but not finical; iii his diet temperate, and not dainty. " He had , an air of paizsive reserve in his deports. , ment, and his extreme shyness sometimes produced in his manners an indescribable mixture of auk. wardness and dignity; hut no being could be more' truly gracaful, when he was in petted health, and . perfeetly pleased with his society. Towards women in partieular,his behaviour and'eontarsatioh were de licate and fascinating in the highest degree. 66 Nature had given him a warm conStitution, and had he been prosperous in early love, it is pro bable that he Might have enjoyed a more uniform and happy tenor of health. But a disappointment 1 of the heart, arising from the cruelty of fortune, • threw a cloud on his juvenile spiry. Thwarted ire love, the native &re of his temperament turned im petuously into the kindred channel of devotion.— The smothered flames of desire uniting with the va pours of constitutional melancholy, and the fer vency of religious zeal, produced altogether . ..hat irregularity of corporeal sensation, and of mental health, which gave such extraordinary vicissitudes of splendor-and of darksess to his mortal career, and made Cowper at times an idol of the purest admirationk and at times an objet of the sincerest pity. " As a sufferer, indeed, no man could be more entitled to compassion, for no man was ever more truly compassionate to the sufferings of others. ill , ' was that rare portion of benevolent sensibility in his nature, which endeared him to persont of all ranks, who had opportunities of observing him in private life. The great Prince of Conde used to say, " No man is a hero to his familiar domestic :" but Cowper was really more. He was beloved and revered with a sort of idolatry in his family ; not from any romantic ideas of his magical powers as a Poet, but from that evangelical gentleness of man-• ners, and purity of conduda which illumined tae' shade of his sequestered life. I may be suspeded of speaking with the fond partiality—the unperceived exaggerations of friend ship ; but the fear of such censure shall not deter me from bearing my most deliberate testimony to the excellence o: him whose memory I revere, and saying, that as a man, he made, of all men whom I have ever had opportunities to observe so minutely, the nearest approaches to moral perfedion. Indeed a much mare eaperienced judge of mankind, and Cowper's associate in early life (Lord Thurlow,) has t expressed the same idea of his character ; for being t. once requested to describe him, he replied, with that' solemn energy of dignified elocution, by which he is accestomed to give a very forcible effed to a few simple words—" Cowper is truly a good man." .6 His daily habits of study and exercise, his whole domestic life is so minutely and agreeably delineated in the series of his Letters, that it is un necessary for his Biographer to expatiate upon them. I have little occasion indeed to dwell on this topic, but let. me apply to my young readers a few ex pressive-words of Louis Racine a in addressing to his own bcnahe Life and Letters of his illustrious 'Father. " Quand vous l'aarez connu dans sa famille, vous le goinerez mieux, lorsqi,a vous viendrez I le connoi tre stir le Parnasse voat scaurea.pourquoi ses ners sent foujours pleinsde sentiment.."—l might add, in alluding to a few of his most tender and pathetic let ters: " C'est time simplicite de mews si admirable dans tin homme tout sentiment et tout eccur, qui,est cause, Tien copiant pour vous sus lcttres, je verse a tous momens des larmes,,parcecpeil me communique L tendresse, dont it &Mt renipb."—Cowper greatly resembled his eminent and exemplary brothers of Parnassus, Racine and Metastasio, in the simplicity and tenderness of his domestic character. His-voice conspired with his features to announce to all who saw and heard him, the extreme sensibi lity of his heart : and in reading aloud lie furnished the chief delight•of those social, enchanting Winter evenings, which he hao described so happily in the fourth book of the Task. He had been- taught by his 'parents at home to recite English verse, in the early years of his childhood ; and acquired consi derable applause, as a shild, in the recital- of Gay's popular }able, " The Here and many Friends." A circumstance that, probably, had great influence in raising his passion for Poetry, and in giving him a peculiar fondness for the wild, persecuted animal, that he converted into a very gratefuLd=estic com panion. Secluded from the world, as Cntvger had long; been, he *yet retained in advanced life uncommons -talents for conversation ; and his conversation dia.tinguishad by delicate humour peculiar to himself, or by a higher tone of w.s.rious good-sense, and those united charms of a cultivated mind, which he has himself very hap described in drawing the colloquiiil charafter of a venerable Divine. Grave, without dullness learned, without pride; Exatt, yet notprecise: ' filo' meek, keen-eyed 7 Who, when occasiAn justified its use, I IA wit, as bright as ready, t.) produce; Could fetch from records of all earlier age,. Or from Philosophy's enlrehten'd ;rage, 11is rich materials, and regale your ear With strains, it was a privilege to hear: Yet above all, his luxury supreme, And his chid Flory was the Gospel theme: Ambitious not to shine, or to excell, But to treat justly, what he lord so well. Men, who withdraw themselves from the ordi nary forms of SocietY,whether delicacy of health, or 1 passion for study, or both united, occasion their retirement from the world, are generally obliged to pay a heavy tax for the privacy they enjoy, is hav ing their habits of life, and their temper, very darkly misrepresented by the ignorant malice of ofiencled pride. The sweeLness and purity of Cowper's real charaaer did not perfetr.kly preserve him from such misrepresentation. Many persons have been misled so far as to suppose hint a severe, and sour seEtary though gentleness and good-nature were among his pre-eminent qualities, and t'.!ough he was deliberately attached to the established religion of his country. The reader may recolle& a letter to his young kins- • man, who was then on the point of taking orders, - in which Cowper sufficiently proves his attachment to the Church of England and he speaks so de cidedly on the subject, than certainly none of the sedarics have a right to reckon him in their num ber. He was, however, as his Poetry his most ele gantly testified, a most ardent friend to liberty, both civil and religious ; and his love of freedom induced him to animadvert with lively indignation on every officious and oppressive exercise of episcopal autho rity. Few Ministers of the Gospel have searched the Sesipture more diligently than Cowper ; and in his days of health, with a happier effet9 ; tor a spirit of evangelical kindness' and purity pervaded the whole tenor of has language, and all the condat of his life. His infinite good-nature, as a literary man, is strik ingly displayed in the indulgent condescension with 'which he giatified two successive Clerks oflsior thampton, in writing for them their annual copies of mortuary verses. He thought, like the amiable Plu tarch, that the most ordinary office may be dignified by a benevolent spirit. In describing Mmself to his amiable friend, Mr. Park the engraver, he spoke too slightingly of his own learning ; for he was in truth a scholar, as any man may fairly be called who is master of four lan guagesbesides hisown. Cowper read Greek and Latin, ereneli and Italian ; but the extraordinary -incidents of his life preclude& him from indulging himself in a multiplicity of books, and his reading was con formable to the rule of Pliny; ,4 Nan multa, nd mul tum." IMPERIAL PiIRLMMENT. HOUSE OF LORDS. rvtsa*Ay, MARC.( Their Lordships, in a Committee of Privilegesi . heard Counsel at considerable length respecting the claim of Rev. Mr. Edw.. Brydges to the Barony of Chandos. The further consideration - of the case was adlotarned till Thursday. The 'Bills upon - the table were forwarded each a stage. Lord RAIXIOR introduced a Bill. of a similar nature with those he lied on one or two former oc casions the honour of proposing ; the objeEt of which he stated to be, the relief of woundeil soldiers and sailors—principally in the instance of requiring Magistrates to order them to be conveyed to -the place of their legal settlement from the town, port, •or place, where'they should be discharged. The Bill .has forthwith read a first time and ordered to .be printed. Mr. Ai-examine and others brou,, , -rlit up several Bills from the . Commonc_; among which- was the Clergy Non-Residence Bill. The Bills were respeetively read a first time. On the question for the Era reading of the Clergy Non-Residence Bill,. The Bishop of Sr. ASAPH observed, that he should move to have the Bill printed ; and, on its second reading, offer his objeedons to the measure, which, in its present shape, he thought should not pass the House. These observations gave rise to a short, but ra ther irregular kind of betwee❑ Lords Rosstvu, the Lord- CHANCELLOR, Lord ALVAN LILY, and the Right Rev. Prelate ;• the result of which was, as it appeared, that the present suspen sion Bill would expire on the Bth instant ; that it was agreed the Bill should be read a second time to-morrow, and understood that .it would be.com mined for Thursday. Mr. Quintin Kennedy, from the Court of Chancery in Ireland, presented certain documents relative to the Appeal—D'Arcy v. D'Arcy. Mr. Porter, of the Custom House, presented sundry accounts from the respdtive Colldtors of the Customs, to the- sth January, 1803, as- far as the same could be made up. Private business was disposed 1, and the;; - :-Lord-- ships adjourned tillto.morrow. HOIJ3E OF CONI2ONS. TUESDAY, m Aacii 429. In pursuance of an Order made yesterday, consequence of the Reporst of the Chippenham Com mittee, the Deputy Clerk of the Crown this day at tended, • and amended the return of the Writ, by: erasing the name of CHARL ES BROOKE, .Esq. subnituting . that of Tlioll4 AS MAITLA.Nu,, Esq. The Hnuse . having resolved itself, into a.Commit tee, on.the Rortan Catholic Oath :1111k Mr. .13oND . • • • * • 1 I, ,c ~. , 0 _ • 11 ~' i~ 1