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* • “s •’ **■ i *1 1 L 6 N D O N. 4|/ BALTIMORE’# Caftan read ft the Cmrt ami Jaey, ufet his Trial of, SfiffuSsr’ laturday the thtk March 1768, taken hi Ctmrt Ij I* My Lord. ahd Gentlemen, ‘HAVE put myfelf upon my Cmintry, in confidence that Prejudice and Clamour will avail nothing in this place, where it is the Privilege of the iieaneft of the King's fubjeAs to be presumed to be inno cent until bis guilt bus been made appear by legal evidence. I •..jrßb I could.(ay* that I ha'va been trcdled abroad with the ihmc j candour I I havebeeh loaded with obloquy ; the moft malignant libels haveisOra circulated, and every other method that malice could devise has been taken to create A general prejudice agaioft me. I thank God, that under such circetallaSocs, I have had ftrmaeft and resolution enough, to meoc'toy nccofirrs face to face, and provoke an enquiry into my con du&.> Hit mams aSe**tuttflt, mil cenfcbpJshi. Thu charge ugeiaft me, and again ft theft poor people, who are involv. and wish me, bcenuls they anight otherwise have been witnesses for me, is, in its nature, easy to be made, and bard to be disproved. The accuser has the advantage of fuppOrtiag it by direA and positive evidence s The defence can onlp.be collected from"circom(lance*. „ My defence is cemnofed of a very gpeat variety of clreumftaacet,- all tending to'fibtW wfity of this charge, the abnifdity of it, the irapof fibility that it can be trite. JtwiJl be laid before the jury by evidence, uaderthe dlfftkmsf my counsel 1 and I have the confidence of an inno- CCB t esnn, thit *t will mantjeft to poor Lordfliip, the Jury, and the whole world, *hat the story told by tjbpo woman is a pcrverAoa of the truth, and antefebyeation, ... whnt.cpsM iudnee this woman to make foch a charge I can only fuf peft.—Very food after (he cam* to my house, upon her reprefentauon to me thft hervfatncr was dUUeicd, 1 feat him aconfiderable sum of money; whether the Ease with which bat. money was obtained from me, might Esr charter. oftihoQiflwifiUll*v4fc XMiw AgLjtaU do * *>~l tffin orftonour, that'them if no truth sn any thing which has, been find.** fworo-ff my having offered Violence to this girl. J-ever held tiicb bVntiHty in abhorrence 1 may I be nlfowod to add, without offend ing agaiaft that Decorum which ought to be observed here, that as a man of pleifopt Ibis opinion agaiaft ell force. I (honld not have intro duced this ton ti meet if it had not £een pertinent tathe fubjeA: other Opi nions on other Snbje£U r no way relating to this charge, have Wen imput ed, add falftly imputed to pic, to inflame this accnfation. Libertine as I mayhave bdea I hold no ftich Opinions, end considering the Debility of my Con dilution, it i not only’ • moral hat e phyftcnl im noVfcmty formfcto hive raviflied this woman, who is stronger than 1 nip. Mach haj been urged,*rain ft: me npoa that of haying fed need her from her paiente stnUHenn;. SeduAion is pbt the point of this charge, but Ido afiure yonr Lordlhjp an# the jury, that this part \\ the case has been eggra- UlKttqcostly beyond the trash j if 1 have been in any degree to blame, I am fare I have very fuffietently attoned for every indiferetion, which a weak’ Attacholeftt *0 this unworthy woman may have led me into, by hav ing ftiffered the disgrace of being exposed as a criminal at the bar, in the county which my rather had the honour to re prelent in parliament, and toherf? If this fort of mi a&ive life had been my ebjeA, my own rank and fortune gaVt mu feme pretensions to have attained the fame honour. I wHI fake up no more of yotfr Lord(hip's time thpn to add, that if I bad beenfeoolcfon* of theguilt now'impnted tome, Tcould have kept tnyfelf and my fortune One of the reach ofthe laws Os this country. lam n citi ten of theworid, and could have lived any where,’ but I love my country, mid Hbflsit'to ill lows j had resolving that my innocence should be jafu led hy Ifte lews, 1 #*w, by my own volantanr all, by surrendering myfelf *0 thfr Court of KHtg's Bench, take Upon, the,vcrdiA of twelve men my lift atelbrtdnOikid wkttfll dearer to me than'either, my honour, ” -^vr'- Qn/em Ut* lafaj/Sens at —— H—4 O and. t \ D. EjOlCJfc ye Son# of Papal Rome, ’ No.longer hide the head, w ’ V Mary’t-birft days once more are come, .. .. 4d"onner f nm the dead -1 ‘ jlmther, tamtmimmg h-d AJvict tt jtmsg Gruntfmem* ‘•fit- * • Hjwjsl Sonia, drink, and swear, ‘And allftiaU then- go well j (.gasos t; 1 lwt>o.cnlto hmti ts Hymns and Prayer, wr aloud—^BxrstL. Hi* Xh—d- of tthmlrf Qtntlmtn fir bsUiug tht AhhfQm Ptrftytrmct % Jb/li/kmfitM bj Fmith miens, mens's ssestssrml • ’VUWngllftgpWifcWh &H*.4k4olmi-hsjhtntf efiht Sfmt. a bweator died, where Ri&j bled, • / • ■ * ewarJb sincere, Ke Crsmrr'i fsith and F.idlty'% hope *. Thrift out and martyr’d there. £DPT E S D % J r % July From the LON.DON CHRONICL). the ffre. Mr, T—, Vicar ts A- ,ia OaOn, tt hie Elbow Chair. IOLLING at ease, and void of care, j Whom rather (hall I raise to fomc, Than thon my miich-lov'd Elbow Cnnir, ~ 1 Who thus fupporVft my pinguid frame t “ When • Henry long and 1 Richard fought. And England bled ia civil war, What Was their glorious aim ?—ne doubt * ’ I*wpfe that bewitching f Elbow Chair. ■ #• have l feta whole Winter nights \ The bottle Hand, the talp fnfpended, / While to this Chdir two (lubborn wights , \ Have each tin equal claim defendea. * That rantingyonth. now foe to rest, Whose limbs a fatal vigour warms, •hall languifiifoon, Snd fly, more bleft, To yoiiif's, than Sylvia's spreading arms# ‘* 01 may f long enjoy thy charms, ... By age more foad, more conftaot grown | • .® r ° r f €t e * c h care, within thy arms, , •Norendy George his triple thronn. 4* yjtichari 111, % Cerematiess Clear, To the PRINfER of the LONDON 4 SIR, -* ■•••*'% I AM by profeflos a Clergyman, and am in poftfiloa of a vicatajp of about one hundred pounds a year is Oxfordftiire, which (hit njstndf encumbered with a wife) makes me the happiest of men. Being toetjtf corpulent, and of a very sedentary difpefition, nothing is so agreeable nm as to Utl est ease in my elbow chair 1 , after having eat a hearty dinner,’ with my pipe in my mouth, and a jug of good old (lingo oe the table b|* hem war.- White fw thus exhaling the fumes of grateful Virginia, t frequently invoke the muse. I imagine after this defeription it will oc. cor to you, that I was the anther of the Poem called the l/WOw, which had the hoeeur of a place in one of your Chronicles j and yon are not deceived.*—l thought I could do no less for that ‘faithful servant, who has for fe many ‘jtenfnppertsA / pinguidfram t than to celebrate it in verso. As that Poem was favoured with a place in your Chronicle, 1 flatten nly felf this will meet with the fame focneli. The great nod uninterrupted happineft I enjoy in my delightful retirement, induced me to write the following lines on the many blefings allotted me; that other persons who 1 are ia as good, or perhaps better, circumftaoces thin myfelf, and yet will for mere, may be coavinced that content-neat aleae is the way to haeoi aef. in this world. I am, STR, - ™ Yonr hnmblfi Servant, J IHDOLENS.S 4 4 k tjiati eentingit nihil masfilisu e/M. ’ * ‘. ........ ’ Hoiaas, VXTOULDye, my ftiends, live free from care, V v Attentive lend a willing ear, While 1 in humble verse relate v * The bleffingiof my bumble Cat#. I have a living, brings ia clear ‘ ( . About a hundred pounds a year,* The tythe well paid without law llrife, * * t * ’. (I'm net encumber'd with a wife) A ftagle church, net grand, but neat, • My people rather good than great. A flrong-built house, and pasture good, . > *’ Where Sorrel crops his livelihood* ‘ . A garden cloth'd with green and fruits, ’- 9 *“ ‘ -*! And intermixt with flower roots. * ‘* A wilk, with well*ftiow'd greenfwtrd lasif . ; " Where i may fmoakirt fnnVthade. ** -* A terras rail'd, whence 1 fqrvty The market.folk who pals that way, , A *xl!b.c>i, .Wn lmirKX ‘ Old Baker's Chronicle, or Speed. The neigh b'ring Clergy*, kind and ftee, • Whe give and take civuity; ♦ Os humour good, of mhth and ftaft, • Who o’er a glass fome wit dirpenfe. (For where's the crime to meet ehd prate Os country aews, and trjtksofftate/) Some social Gents'ef gbodly woith. Who scorn to boaftof wealth or birch 1 * Who ne'er aflerne the courtier’s frown. Yet keep above the homely dowr;