TO THE SWALLOW.

And decks her zone with odorific flow'rs,
'Tis then thy charms attract the vulgar gaze,
And tempt the view with meretricious blaze;
Caught by thy glare, with pleasure they be
hold

Thy glowing crimson melting into gold:
In vain to nobler minds thy lure is spread,
Thy painted front, thy cup of glowing red;
Beneath thy bloom such noxious vapours lie,
That when obtain'd, and smelt, we loathe and

fly;
Thus pleasure spreads for all her silken joys,
And oft', too late, the painted prospect cloys.
JUVENIS.
Euron. Mag. Vol. LII. Aug. 1807.

HAST thou a star thy path to guide,
That with the rolling year,
When sweet the rosy moments glide,
Thy certain voice we hear?

When April starts, and wakes around
The sleeping fragrance from the ground,
And lightly o'er the living scene
Spreads his tend'rest, soitest green;
O'er Ocean's vast and tractless fields,
Hither thou bend'st thy flight,
The airy car the whirlwind yields
Thro' realms of liquid light.

A thousand gambols catch our look,
While thou dippest in the brook,
Or bendest q'er the lake's wide way,
Sporting in the noontide ray,

When Winter spreads his icy hands
Thou leav'st the silent vale,
"An annual guest in other lands
Another spring to hail,"

Thus adulation, fleeting flow'r,
Bends to greet our happier hour;
But, on our dark and gloomy day,
Leaves us alone to trace our way.

JUVENIS,

Th' untir d exertions of thy royal hand. Thus, O Philanthropy, thy reign Assume in every breast,. Till nought of passions base remain To marr thy halcyon rest: Thus, daughter of most happy skies, pervade The monarch and the subject with thy love, Till in each heart the image be pourtray'd

To fit the soul for happier scenes alove; Where war or warlike hosts shall ne'er appear To stain th' unsullied bliss of one eternal year. To western shores thy power extends, Beyond th' Atlantic wave it roves, Each savage tribe thy smile befriends, Tho' deep immur'd im untrod groves!

JULY 13.

LORD Sidmouth asked Lord Hawkesbury

what ineasures ministers meant to propose for augmenting the regular force, and improving the general means of defence of the country? He made some observations on the important and critical state of public affairs; and was answered by Lord Hawkesbury, that a communication on the subject was already in a train to be laid before Parlament. Lord Grenville said, that the present being a crisis which called for the collective energies of the country, nothing was so essential to that view as the admission of 4,000,000 Sof Catholics to a full participation of the British constitution. He conjured the Par liament to turn its attention to this important

measure.

Lord Spencer took occasion to reprobate the assertion, that the late ministers had appealed to Parliament against their sovereign; and said, that they would not have mentioned the facts connected with their removal if they had not found that some of their successors had laid before the public a false and garbled statement of the transactions,

Lord Erskine also said a few words on the necessity of Parlament being a check upon ministers; and Lord Limerick deprecated all party discussions at the present crisis,

14. After a long discussion on the American Treaty Indemnity Bill, in which the conduct of the late and present ministry formed the principal theme, Lord Suffolk recommended conciation with the Umted States; and the bill was read a third time, and passed.

15. Several bills were forwarded through

their respective stages.

16. The Exchequer Bills balls were read a third time and passed.

17. Several bills received the royal assent, and the House was afterwards occupied with a desultory conversation on the Irish Glebe Houses Bill.

20. Several bills were forwarded through their respective stages; and on the motion of Lord Suffolk, who was about to speak on the subject of the defence of the nation, the bar was ordered to be cleared.

21. Lord Landerdale moved for a list of places in reversion, which was ordered.-A number of bills were forwarded through their respective stages.

22. Several bills were received from the Commons, and passed through committees. 23. The Lottery and several private bills were read a third time, and passed. 24. The Irish Assessed Taxes Penalties Bill was read a third time, and passed.

27. Lord Holland, alluding to the reported commencement of hostilities between this country and America, wished to know if ministers had any communication to make on the subject; as he considered the event, if true, to be one of the greatest calamities that could befal us.

Lord Hawkesbury answered, that he had no authority at present to make any communication on the subject. He, however, observed, that if the discussions pending with America should lead to hostilities, the result would be sincerely deprecated by ministers, JULY 13.

THE Exchequer Bills bills were read a third time and passed.

New writs were ordered for Dorchester, in the room of the Hon. C. A. Cooper, now Clerk of the Ordnance; for Grantham, in room of the member for that borough, now Clerk of the Deliveries of the Ordnance; for Youghall, in the room of Lord Boyle, called up to the House of Peers; and for St. Mawes, in the room of Captain Shipley, who made his election for Flint.

Mr. Whitbread, on bringing up his bill for encouraging industry among the poor, took an opportunity of saying, that since the disastrous news from the continent of last week, he wished cagerly to learn, whether ministers intended to submit to Parliament any measures in regard to the army, or any plan of a defensive nature in the mean time.

Mr. Perceval said, that Lord Castlereagh had such a measure in his contemplation.

Lord Howick begged to know, whether or not it was meant by ministers to make any declaration to the country before the end of the session with regard to the situation in which Great Britain stood in respect to her continental allies.

Mr. Canning replied, that such unquestionably was the intention of ministers; but some time must necessarily elapse before such communication could with propriety be made, Mr. Perceval brought down a message from his Majesty, stating his Majesty's anxiety to settle upon the Queen, end her royal daughters, Frogmore-house and grounds. The message entreated the House to take the most speedy and effectual means for enabling his Majesty so to do.-Referred to a committee of the whole House.

The Secretary at War brought up a bill for the more convenient payment of pensions to officers' widows, and to persons on the Compassionate List.

In a Committee of Supply, Mr. Perceval moved a sum of 793,710l. for army services for 1805-6, and not made good by Parhament; 2,950,0001. as extraordinary services for the army for 1807; and 600,0001. as extraordinaries for the army in Ireland, 1807. In a Committee of Ways and Means, Mr. Perceval moved the usual resolutions for a Lottery. The only difference between this and former lotteries, he said, was this, that it was not intended to give so many money prizes, but prizes of tickets to be drawn in subsequent lotteries.

14. A new writ was ordered for Tralee, in the room of Sir A. Wellesley, returned for Newtown.

The Hon. C. Johnstone moved for an account of all sums of money issued to armyagents, on account of clothing the respective

regiments for which they acted, from the 24th. Dec. 1805, to the 25th Dec. 1806.

Mr. Rose said, the subject was one of considerable importance. Clothing for the army generally cost the country annually: about 800,000l. and could any saving or retrenchment be pointed out, it would be extremely desirable. The motion was then put and carried.

Lord H. Petty rose to move, that the House do now resolve into a conmmittee on the several acts relating to the Finances. It was unnecessary for him to detaim the House at present, having on a former occasion fully explained his object; which was, to originate a bill for appropriating to the public service the excesses of the Sinking Fund. The question, on its being put from the chair, passed in the negative,

15. New writs were ordered for Kingstonupon-Hull, in the room of Lord Mahon, who makes his elestion for Wendover, of Lord Cloncarty, who has accepted the office of Joint Postmaster of Ireland; and for Rye, in the room of Sir J. Nicholls, who makes his election for Great Bedwin.

Mr. Foster having moved for a variety of sums as grants upon Irish estimates, and par ticularly for a grant for the support of Maynooth College;

Mr. E. Hawkins deprecated such an establishment, and said, that if the Irish Catholics wanted to educate their priests, they should do it, like the Protestant dissenters, at their own expence. This drew some severe remarks from

:

Mr. Windham, who asked, was it not better the Irish Catholic priesthood should be men educated under the eye of Government, and be of known character, than men who imbibed their education and their pofitical principles under the auspices of an enemy. But, notwithstanding all that had been said of the gross superstition and barbarism of the Irish Catholics, he conceived it was no more than the gross religion of a gross class of people, and not one whit more so than that of a very great portion of the Protestants of England; and that, for every thing he could hear or experience, the enlightened Catholics of this country and of Ireland were not inferior in principles, in virtue, or talents, to any other description of men any where. There was nothing half so barbarous, even m the imputed superstition and intolerance of the lowest of the Irish Cathohes, as the cry of" No Popery!" so recently set on foot throughout this country, by certaur gentlemen among those opposite to him.

A desultory conversation followed, in which many members took a part, and the motion was then agreed to.

Mr. Huskisson, after a few observations, moved, that the amount of the war taxes, together with the sum of 171,000l. the surplus of the votes of 1806, and of 139,000l. the profits of the fourth Lottery of the last year, should be applied to the supply of the year. This resolution was accordingly agreed to.

16. New writs were ordered for Orford, in the room of Lord R. Seymour, returned for Carmarthen; and for Midhurst, in the room of S. Smith, Esq. returped for Leicester.

Mr. Foster obtained leave for a bill to Regulate the Collection of Duties on Gold and Silver Plate manufactured in Ireland.

Sir T. Turton, after paying some complimen's to the volunteers, and censuring the conduct of the late Ministry towards them, moved for a return of their actual and effective force-in Great Britain and Ireland. Ordered.

A long conversation then ensued for and against the second reading of the India Bondy Bill, which, on a division, was carried by a majority of 35 to 10.

17. Jonathan Brundrett, clerk to Mr. Lowten, was brought to the bar on the motion of Mr. Jeffery, for having delayed to send off a fit for the election of a member for Poole. He asked pardon of the House, and said his offence was unintentional; but refused to give up the name of the person to whom he had given the writ.

The Chancellor of the Exchequer then moved, that he be committed to Newgate; on which

Mr. Barham defended the person at the bar, on the ground that an attorney was bound not to betray confidential secrets.

Lord Howic spoke to the same effect; and the question for the committal was carried. The persons who received the writ, together with Mr. Lowten, and the Messenger of the Great Seal, were then ordered to attend on Monday.

The House went into a Committee of Supply; when 4,9251. were voted for the purchise of the manuscripts lately in the possession of the deceased Marquis of Lansdown for the British Museum.

20. The Lottery, and several private bills, were read a third time and passed.

A new writ was ordered for Winchelsea, in the room of Sir T. Vane, who has accepted the Chiltern Hundreds.

The Chancellor of the Exchequer obtained leave for a bill to continue the Commissioners for Inquiry into Military Abuses, till

June 1808.

Mr. C. Johnstone's motion for the balances against Army Agents was agreed to.

The proceedings on the complaint respecting the suppression of the writ for Poole, were fixed tor Tuesday se'nnight.

21. Mr. Brundrett, who reccised the Poole writ, was called to the bar, reprimanded by the Speaker, and discharged.

Col. Stanley moved to bring in a bill to

amend the act of Charles II. relative to the settlements of bastard children; but his motion was negatived without a division.

Sir T. Turton moved for certain documents connected with the treatment of the Polygars, in order to ascertain whether some reform could not be applied to the dreadful system so long acted upon in India. The motion was agreed to.

22. After some bills had been forwarded, Lord Castlereagh submitted to the House his measures for improving our military system. He began by observing, that at the period at which Ministers came into office, the prospects on the continent were not so unpro. mising as they have since proved to be. The House was also aware, that no measure could be brought forward which would not be one of considerable sacrifice. But, independent of those circumstances arising out of the general state of Europe, there was that in the situation of this empire which rendered it necessary that we should place our military establishment upon the most imposing footing. The same amount of force which now existed would not enable his Majesty to maintain his foreign establishments and feed his army. But if the necessity of exertion were a question upon which hitle controversy could arise, he would undertake to prove that all improvement improvement should be in the regular substantial military force of the country; that all other resources were inefficient and precarious; and therefore it would be allowed, that it would be extremely desirable to bring forward such measures as should increase the military force with the least possible inconvenience, while recruiting was far from being adequate to the exigency of the present crisis. Of all the measures that had ever been employed in this country, for raising a great military force to meet the pressure of the monment, the measure resorted to in 1804 was the most powerful; he meant the creation of an army of reserve. The operation of that step produced, in a very short time, the greatest and most extensive advantages to the military service of the country. It was not, however, the intention of government to draw from that source at present. The measure which he should propose could not be employed at the period the army of reserve act took place. The militia was then but just called out, whereas the term of service of the militia was just now expiring. They must all be dismissed to-morrow if a peace took place. Whatever, therefore, was gained from that source in the interval, was so much clear gain to the mr litary force of the country. It was therefore his intention to propose a levy of malitia, and not an army of reserve. Whatever peace might be made by this country, he would venture to assert, that it could only be maintained by keeping up an adequate military force. There were several reasons which induced him to think that a levy of militia was preferable to an army of reserve. Though this was not entirely a new plan, yet, as it might create some difference of opinion, he thought it necessary to state to the House the extent to which the levy was intended to go. It had been calculated, that from the month of December next to the May following the militia would be subject to a waste of from 5 to 6000 men, who would be entitled to their discharge, from the suspension of the ballot made by the system of Mr. Windham, which was adopted last year; and this number, as well as those who should now volunteer into the line, was to be made up by the ballot. After this operation of the ballot was ended, security ought to be given to the line, that no ballot should take place for two or three years, and thereby devolve on the regular army the only system of recruiting by the ordinary method. Inlooking to what the militia regiments might be able to spare, he would go back to what bad been done at former periods; and be believed the draft had been calculated at two-fifths of the establisliment. It was now proposed to take the excess on three-fifths only, which he believed would in England give a force of 21,700 men; and the same mode resorted to in Ireland would give 8,000 wen. By the law as it now stood, his Majesty had the power vested in him of raising a supplementary militia of 20,000 men for England, and 4000 men for Scotland. He thought, therefore, it would be most advisable, in the present instance, to call for a supplementary militia, and a half of which would give a force of 38,000; out of those there would be 10,000 supernumerary militiamen, which would make up for the different wastes that must take place, and would thus leave to the country an increase to the army of 28,000 men. Having stated the extent

to

which the particular exigency of the tunes require the measure to be put, he should propose, that giving the men to the line should be left entirely to the militia officers; and each regiment of militia should from time to time receive his Majesty's warrants for this purpose; that for thirty days no man should leave the regiment but with the consent of the officers thereof, and a third to be accepted, if they offered within the first thirty days. The officers of the militia to have commissions in the line, according to the number of men they respectively take, and to go with them directly front the nilitia regiment to such regiments of the lime as they mean to inlist into. Having stated the mode in which this transfer should take place, he thought it would be wise to give each individual a choice or alternative whether he would enlist for life, or rather during lus Majesty's pleasure, or for a term of years only. He was not disposed to alter the system entirely which had been brought forward by Mr. Windham, and adopted by Parliament, though he had made the strongest objections to it

before it was adopted, and as it was probable that 28,000 men would be added to the army in the first thirty days. Whatever Paritament might have thought proper to do with respect to the army in general, he was of opinion they ought to give a choice in this point to such individuals as might enlist on the present occasion. It might be expected he should say something as to what course Government intended to take with those branches of the force of the country which could not be considered as regular, and particularly with respect to the measure sulmitted by Mr. Windham, called the Training Act. With respect to that measure, he must say, that had the present Ministers been ever so much disposed to it, they had not had it in their power to make any effective progress in it, as Mr. Windham had most ingemously contrived to lay aside the ballot in several counties, that it could not be proceeded on: so that his measure had done every thing but what it ought to have done. Though he was no original admirer of the measure, yet, Parliament having adopted it, he, in common with the other Ministers, was disposed to endeavour to execute it, as far as might be done, according to the fair spirit and meaning of it. He added, that it was a most painful duty, in the present state of the war, to call on the country for any farther and more active exertions. Ministers had paid every attention to this most important subject, from the first moment they entered into

office, and under all the difficulties with which it was attended, had endeavoured to alter the existing establishment as little as possible: the system of ordina dinary recruiting would, in some degree, be affected by the ballot; but when that was over it would be restored to its former effect; the militia would also, in some degree, be altered, but it would be with advantage to the service; and if it was at present throwing a burthw on the country, it would turn out ultimately beneficial to its interests. In the character of this country, no characteristic was more strong than this, that it had always risen in proportion to the dificulties and dangers with which it was pressed, and he had no doult it would do so in the present awful and momentous crisis. He concluded by moving, "That leave be given to bring in a bill for allowing a certain proportion of the militia to enlist into the regular army."

Sir G. Warrener objected to the period of bringing forward the measure; as a case had not been shewn that proved that a disposable force of 28,000 men to the line was wanting: he considered the measure of ballot as highly objectionable.

Mr. Yorke entered at much length in'o the critical situation of this country; and in isted that a Gugle false step might now be our utter run. He considered the measure proposed as one of peculiar efficacy; but objected to the balloung of 36,000 men to sup