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63d regiment, and Aid-de-camp to Earl Cornwallis, commander in chief of the British forces in South Carolina. He was employed in the army from the age of 16 years, and ferved with reputation during the whole of the prefent unfortunate war in America, where his inconfolable parents and lamenting friends had the misfortune to lose him, gallantly fighting at the head of the 63d regiment and a detachment from the army, which was fent by Lord Cornwallis, to lead into action against fuperior forces, commanded by an American General at Black-Stocks in South Ca, rolina, November 9, 1780.

O meek-ey'd Peace! resume thy golden reign,
And waft thy bleffings o'er th' Atlantic main.

He was esteemed an exceeding good officer for his years, and promifed fair to rife to great employments in the army. Earl Cornwallis made honourable mention of him in his official difpatches to the Secretary of State, and feemed to lament the lofs with a concern almoft equal to that of his nearest friends and family-connec tions. He died of his wounds, November 15, a few days after the action, atat. 24:

THE following infcription was wrote to his memory, by RICHARD GARDINER, Efq. of Mount Amelia in the County of Norfolk,

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To the MEMORY of

LIEUTENANT JOHN MONEY,

Aid de Camp to Earl Cornwallis, who at the age of 24, was killed at the head of the 63d regiment, engaged against fuperior numbers, at Black-Stocks in South Carolina, on the attack and defeat of General Sumpter, an American General, November 9, 1780.

Fresh bloom the laurel by the fword acquir'd,
Brave, gallant youth with love of glory fir'd!
For thee Cornwallis weeps, tho' on his brow
Fair vict'ry finiles, and tears in conquest flow:
O early loft! who envies not thy fame
And death, that gives to thee a deathless name?
Thy hardy vet'rans oft in danger tried,
Point penfive to the field where MONEY died:
Where, as he faw thee bleeding on the ground,
The rapid Tarleton paus'd, and clos'd thy wound.

TREMBLE, BRITANNIA'S FOES! let the proud Gaul, And prouder Spaniard dread a mighty fall;

So young in arms when Britons veng'ance pour,
And finish'd heroes die at TWENTY-FOUR!

RICHARD G-D-N-R, Efq. alias DICK MERRYFELLOW, was born at Saffron-Walden in the county of Effex, October 4, 1723. He was educated at Eton College, and afterwards be came a member of the Univerfity of Cambridge, where he was ftudent for fome years at Catherine

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Hall: during his refidence there, he was appointed to write the tripoßberfes, as they are called, for the fenior proctor's exercife, upon the Pythagorean question of the metempsychosis, or the tranfmigration of fouls, which, as it is a fubject lately ftarted to the public, may perhaps not be unentertaining, or unworthy the attention of the learned reader.

Recte Statuit Pythagoras De METEMPSYCHOSI.

QUOS fubeat refoluta vicés, quæ regna pererret Sofpes ab exequijs ANIMCE, aut quæ tarda revifat Corpora, non longum manfura, volatilis hofpes,

Hinc canere incipiam; nec tu. Indignere vocanti PAN, deus Arcadia, et petulantia Numina FAUNI, Quâcunque in formâ, quocunque fub ore latentes: Quodque tenet Sylvas, varium et mutabile femper, Quodque tenet fluvios; PROTEU VERTUMNE, puellæ Ipfe anus infidians: tuque, O! DAPHNEIA LAURUS, Da folià indulgens manibus carpenda Pudicis Virgineos, heu! iam non virgo, oblita timores,

Aç veluti E Lento furgunt fimulaera metallo
Quæ Faber excudens vivos imitamine vultus
Evocat, ILLA ducem victorem fpirat imago,
Mollior HÆC cytherea oculos rifufque folutos
Exprimit, aut lique facta volens facilifque fequetus;
Artifici ducente, alias fubitura figuras ;

Sic varijs ANIMA, æthereo confifa vigori,
Ludit imaginibus, larvasque exuta priores

Mille vices patitur: videas modo cornua TAURI

Torquere, indomitum modo ad arma urgere LEONEM:

Nunc

Nunc magis innocuos alijs animalibus ignes
Infpirans multo circum blanditur amore:
Hinc CANIS exquiris cæcos fuper afpera greffus
Fida regens domino vestigia, pectoris ardor
Jam furis, et notos teftatur confcia vultus
Lingua, fimul corpufque pedefque et cauda rotantur:
Hinc juga paftorem fuper, aut in amæna locorum
Lanigeræ comitantur OVES, vocemque fequuntur:
Hinc celeres agitat pennas lapfura COLUMBA
In nemus umbri ferum, conjux ubi murmure noto
Refpondet curis, æquatque fidelis amorem.

Nec tamen intereà naturas mobilis hofpes
Quaflibet induitur paffim et difcrimine nulla:
Ipfa EADEM affectus de corporis haurit EOSDEM
Relliquijs, adeo non vitæ oblita prioris:
Ipfa fiti conftans femper, femperque fidelis
Antiquos fervat verfâ fub imagine mores.

Hinc ratione regi quâdem, rerumque fagaci Notitiâ caltere FERÆ, et fapere alta videntur : Admirandum adèo quid habet folertia VULPIS? Aut LEPORIS? querimur quid tardum ad retia PIS

CEM?

Scit bene uterque dolos hominum: quid odora ca

num vis

Poffet, ab exactis olim raminifcitur annis

Cautum animal: temidoque eadem hinc aftutia pisci Vitare æratos, quos fæpe tetenderat, hamos.

Scilicet humano refoluta E Corpore prifcas Affectat vires ANIMA, atque obftantia pennis Clauftra pati indignans, veteres tentare volatus Audet, et inceptos, quondem renovare labores :

Corpories

Corporeis iterum moderari fenfibus ardet
Arbitrio imperiofa fuo, SOLIUMQUE priori
Afcendit faftu, RERUMQUE EXQUIRIT HABENAS.
Quis tamen expediat fando quos lubrica formes.
Induat, et miris ludat lafciva figuris ?
Quæ circum gracilis fufpendit ARANEA telas
Educens multo fubtilia fila labore,

Hæc olim SOPHUS emicuit fuper ardua cœli,
Quem raptavit amor: depicte in limite chartoe
Monftravit SOLISQUE Vias LUNCE que meatus.
Vix memor ipfe fui dure inclementia noctis
Abftulit incautum, atque opera imperfecta reliquit :
Hinc prifces iterum exercet non fignior artes
Pendula de tigno, aut fcanderas laquearia tecti
Defignat varios miro fubtemine gyros:
Hæc inter forfàn in juvet evafiffe laborem
Humanum, aut veteris repectens vestigia vitæ
Angat fe defiderio, indoleatque recordens.

En tacits que cun&ta notat labentia cælo
Sidera, quæ ventos et quæ prænuntiat æftus
CORNIX!-PARTRIGIUS docuit qui plurima vates
IDEM erat, annofique habitans penetralia tecti
VENDIDIT hic AURO pluvias folefque benignos
Naturæ leges figenis pretio atque refigens:
Ipfa tamen propium fervat natura tenorem,
Et pluvias HOмo qui cecinit, canit improba CORNIX.

Quas pofthac tamen ad fedes ille * AUREUS ORDO
Migrabit INOCNUM, tua fpes + MUSGROVA, tuæque

The fellow-commoners, whofe proper habit is laced with gold tufts.

Two celebrated beauties at Cambridge, 1742-3,-Mifs Mufgrave, and. Mifs Hargiave.

Delicia

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