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, 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, Το 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, TREMBLE, BRITANNIA'S FOES! let the proud Gaul, And prouder Spaniard dread a mighty fall; So young in arms when Britons veng'ance pour, 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 Hall 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 Sic varijs ANIMA, æthereo confifa vigori, Mille vices patitur: videas modo cornua TAURI Torquere, indomitum modo ad arma urgere LEONEM: Nunc Nunc magis innocuos alijs animalibus ignes Nec tamen intereà naturas mobilis hofpes 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 Hæc olim SOPHUS emicuit fuper ardua cœli, En tacits que cun&ta notat labentia cælo Quas pofthac tamen ad fedes ille * AUREUS ORDO The fellow-commoners, whofe proper habit is laced with gold tufts. Two celebrated beauties at Cambridge, 1742-3,-Mifs Mufgrave, and. Mifs Hargiave. Delicia |