TO SENSIBILITY. POETRY. The fair who boafts an angel's face, Adorn'd with ev'ry winning grace, WHILE courtiers fing in praife of kings, Has not a charm which can keep pace And fages treat of graver things, My throbbing breaft with rapture clings To gentle Senfibility, The fource of pleasure, fource of pain, Of gentle Senfibility. Say, what is man without its aid, Without fweet Senfibility. What gives to Beauty's smile a zeft ? What fills with fervid zeal the breaft? To yield relief to the diftreft ? Say, what but Senfibility? What renders man creation's lord? What is the foul's harmonious chord ? What Htays full oft th' uplifted sword? Say, what but Sensibility? What gives the youth his glowing fire? The fparkling flame of young defire? Which bids his foul to love aspire ? Say, what but Senfibility? 'Tis that alone which can give birth Yet fweet is Senfibility, 'Tis that the fierceft breaft can tame; 'Tis that which gives the hero fame, And bids him glory in a name That's due to Senfibility, It fmiles, and lo all Nature charms; Does gentle Senfibility. When fell misfortunes hov'ring low'r, The tear of Senfibility. The fordid mifer counts his hoard; Strangers to Senfibility. A fprig of Senfibility. With tender Senfibility. Sweet is the mufic of the grove! It is the effence of the foul, The point round which the paffions roll, July 3, 1806. RETROSPECTION. J. D. For ah! fhe wed, and fortune prov'd unkind, Forc'd on her relatives, it pierc'd her mind; [end, Penfive and fad, the linger'd to her And life's tern tyrant prov'd the truer friend. [pair, "To rural Cofton let my thoughts reAnd tafte, 'mid fylvan walks, the balmy air; Fondly renew what gratitude hould pay, The festive board, the limoothly-joyous day; [art, A welcome, freed from all the pomp of Full in each action, ipoke the gen'rous heart: [chate, Thence oft I rov'd o'er many a pr. ud And view'd the manfions of the rich and great; [thron'd tow'r, Such as I cann'd at Rutland's high. Where Belvoir's vale beguil'd a rapt'rcus hour; [repos'd, A long-tretch'd profpect, where the eye 'Till Lincoln turrets the faint diftance clos'd. [* Mam Tor's height "By Derwent's gufhing fream, the With verdure crown'd, confeir'd a true delight; There, in bold grandeur, lefty rocks arife, Slant from their base, and seem t' invade the skies; Lgrave, Here Fashion's vot'ries come, the gay, the And drink new life from Matlock's tepid [rejcice "Hafte to the woodlands! let the hills With beagle cry, and man's re-echcing [hare, wave. voice; On Stafford plains, to courfe the timid Bring the fleet dogs, and for the fpcrt prepare: Or, if lefs cruel, to the ripling brook Bid Mem'ry fraud with various baits the hock, [tine, For changing months the diff'rent by deTrawl the ftrong thread, or patient drop the line; [tedges teem, Chief where the Lea, whofe depths with Joins the fmcoth confluence of a rushy ftream; [explore, Friendly commix'd, their way they flow Then feek the steep with hellow, fullen [lotty dome, "Pleas'd I furvey'd, at Wooditeck's The patriot, and the hero's honour'd home, [bros Bine! Great Anna's gift: now may new MarlPluck the fresh laurel, and be deem'd di roar." vine; Or Mother Tower, a rock fo called. O for the glories of fome bright campaign To bow Oppreffion on th' enfanguin'd plain! [troul'd, Ev'n at this hour he lords it unconRealms are difpeopled, rights and kingdoms fold; [chains, And while fad Europe mourns ditgraceful Terror and Pity own Napoleon reigns!" “Ye pastoral deities, by the flow'ry fide Of filver Avor, in fantaltic pride, When your tann'd nymphs conceal'd in fhades, and Imil'd, Or elfe in mazy dance your time beguil'd; Tell where, his wild notes floating on the wind, [clin'd; A matchleis Bard † upon thofe banks reWhile fnowy fwans flow mov'd in graceful itate, [late: And all the beauties of the scene reI've view'd its margent green, and fain would raile [praife, The fimple lay that fhould revive its A fruitlefs talk; unkill'd but to retrace, In folitude, bright Nature's cheerful face." I BY CLIO RICKMAN. ALWAYS lov'd THEE! and thy yellow garb, OCTOBER dear! but fairer than to day I never faw THEE, or with more regard Beheld THEE all thy countless charms difplay. Ten thousand glowing tints, in this rich fhade, [hues; Wave in the wind their ever-changing And the foft breeze which freeteft fcents pervade, The fallen leaf around in eddies ftrews. Bold flant above me, clad in velvet guife, The Downs, begemm'd with flocks of pureft white; [lies; While all below thy Weald, dear Suffex! Thy woods, hills, vallies, glitt'ring to the fight. 'Tis Heaven around-fave that my. Jane's not here, [more dear. Whofe prefence would make Heaven itself JOURNAL OF THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE FOURTH SESSION OF THE SECOND PARLIAMENT OF THE UNITED KINGDOM OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND. (Continued from Vol. XLIX, page 476.) HOUSE OF LORDS. MONDAY, May 19. THE Irish Loan, Treasury Bills' Bill, and Mutiny Bill, were read a third time, and paffed. TUESDAY, May 20.-The Scotch Judges' Salaries Bill was read a third time, and paffed. Earl Spencer moved the order of the day for the fecond reading of the Defence Act Repeal Bill. That A&t had, in the attempt to carry it into effect, proved the juice of the objections which he and his friends had made to it on its introduction. Instead of prov ing an aid to the means of increafing the regular force, it had operated as a very confiderable impediment to them, while it had fubjected the country to pecuniary forfeitures to an immenfe extent. So far even as it had been fuccefsful, it produced its effect by a violation of the law, and tended by high bounties to renovate that injurious competition which it was intended to prevent. He went into a variety of calculations to prove, that fuppofing the Act to continue in operation for one year longer, it would be deficient, with respect to England alone, in about 20,000 of the number it ought to have raised; that the amount of the fines for fuch deficiency would be about 415,000l.; and extending the calculation to the whole of the United Kingdom, the amount of penalties would be 545,000l. Lord Camden fpoke in defence of the A&t intended to be repealed. He admitted that it required fome alterations; but that the late Government intended to make them. He moved that the Bill fhould be read again this day three weeks. The Earl of Weftmoreland alfo deprecated in ftrong terms the Bill before the Houfe; and infifted, that the Defence Act produced all the men that were required; namely, 15,000 per year. Lord Sidmouth fpoke against the pro pofed delay; and Lords Derby, Rofflyn, Darnley, Caernarvon, Radnor, and Grofvenor, followed on the fame grounds; after which the Houfe divided; and the amendment being re. jected by a majority of 97 to 45, the Bill was read a fecond time. THURSDAY, May 22.-The Additional Force Repeal Bill was read a third time, and passed. FRIDAY, May 23.-The Royal Affent was given, by Commiffion, to the Defence Repeal, Irish Loan, Irish Treafury Bills, Scotch Judges' Salaries, Admiralty Jurifdiction, Welt India Governors' Indemnity, Lord St. Vincent's Annuity Bill, and forty private Bills. WEDNESDAY, May 28.-The Houle, on meeting after their adjournment, proceeded, with clofed doors, to difcufs fome points relative to the trial of Lord Melville, and then adjourned till FRIDAY, May 30.-The Houfe was occupied in the further confideration of the evidence on Lord Melville's trial. MONDAY, June 2.-The difcuffion was refumed on the cafe of Lord Melville. TUESDAY, June 3.-Lord Moira prefented a Petition from Juftice Fox, fetting forth the circumstances of his fituation, and praying relief.-It was ordered to lie on the table. The confideration of Lord Melville's cafe was then refumed, and strangers were, as ufual, excluded. THURSDAY, June 5.-Several Bills were forwarded, and the difcuffion was refumed on the cafe of Lord Melville.. FRIDAY, June 6.-The Income Tax and Additional Force Repeal Bills went through a Committee. SATURDAY, June 7.-The Houfe re ceived the Mutiny Bill from the Commons; which was read a first, and or dered to be read a fecond time on Monday. Adjourned, 1 HOUSE HOUSE OF COMMONS. MONDAY, May 19. IR J. NEWPORT obtained leave for Bills to regulate the offices of the Receivers General of Cuftoms and Excife in Ireland; and one for repealing the Irish Additional Force Act. PRIVATE BREWERIES. In a Committee of Ways and Means, Lord H. Petty ftated, that he had to fuggeft a fubftitute for the tax on iron. He had turned his attention to the Private Breweries, carried on by the families of individuals. That fyftem was now going on at a great rate, and principally on account of the in creafe of duty paid by the Public Brewer. To this fyftem of domestic economy, therefore, the state had a right to look for a fupply; and he could affure the Committee it would be fo moderate in its operation, as till to leave the private a decided advantage over the public Brewer. He then proceeded to defcribe the quantities of malt brewed by the public and the private Brewers upon their respective data; and stated, that it was upon the duties paid on three millions of quarters of malt made into ftrong and fmall beer, that he should fubmit this new propofal. It would also be recollected, that the diffilleries confumed annually 1,000,000 of quarters of malt, and that during the year of fcarcity, 1800, upwards of 250,000 quarters had been brewed by the private Brewers. On that calculation, therefore, he should eftimate this new tax at 500,000l., being the full fumat which he had charged the duty on iron. He had endeavoured to render this burthen as light as poffible to private families; and inftead of carrying the excise into fuch families, he had preferred a mode of commutation which would bring the duty under the Affeffed Taxes, by means of a licence to manufacture beer, in order that all who fhould fo brew might be charged as private Brewers. In applying this to private farmers, he did not mean to touch the poor, or the cottager who brewed his own beer. It was, therefore, propofed to make only thofe claffes pay the new duty, who already paid the Affefled Taxes under their different heads. The fcale would thus be as follows: Every family paying a duty on a four VOL. L. JULY 1806. wheeled carriage, and one male fervant, to pay a commutation for every male, in fuch family, 1l. 18.-For every female, ros.-Families not paying for a four-wheeled carriage, but affeffed for one male fervant, to pay for each male, 158.-Every female, 7s. 6d. Families not affeffed for a male fervant, but paying the affeffed tax, for every male, 10s.-Every female, 5s.-Perfons only paying the lowest order of affeffed taxes, and charged with the window tax, males, 5s. - Females, 2s. 6d. All children under ten years old excepted, and alfo all the lower orders of the labouring poor, and all perfons not paying affelfed taxes, and who may choose to brew for themselves, to be exempt; for no perfon but the private Brewer would have any part of the charge to bear. The number of perfons liable to this tax he calcu lated upon the following fcale :First Class, 12,000. Second Clafs, 50,000.-ThirdClafs, 364,000.-Fourth Clafs, 320,000.And the whole produce he estimated to bring in a nett revenue of 500,000l. He obferved, that he felt happy that the clafs of labouring poor would be altogether exempt from the tax; and concluded by moving, that there be laid upon every barrel of ale or strong beer brewed by private families, of the value of 16s., an excife duty of 10s., to be paid by the perfon fo brewing, except fuch perfon as fhould pay a commutation licence duty upon the fcale before mentioned. A converfation enfued, in the course of which Lord H. Petty intimated, that fomething would be done to equalize the duty on Cyder to the new duty on Beer.-The Refolutions were agreed |