Who kept lock'd up, amongst their tea, Nor does the lavish her regards For fome fond lover-in her heart. "What then can this retirement mean "'Tis Laura's intereft to be seen." Be it then rightly understood, When charities her aid demand, Laura extends a liberal hand. With what you diffipate on dress, ܕ܂ A liquor made in France, used medicinally. M Yet, to herself and heaven alone, She leaves the world its noise and show, Nov, 20, 1792. VOLTAIRE'S VISIT ΤΟ CONGREVE.* ERE France, intent on her Utopian plan, Had fpurn'd all laws t' affert "the rights of man," On liberty fo zealously employ'd, Both liberty and property destroy'd; She long had view'd, with envy-and applause, The matchless system of our British laws; When young Voltaire, by freedom's charms infpir'd, To freedom's feat from defpotifm retir'd. Here heroes he beheld, who bravely fought; Patriots, who wifely plann'd or greatly thought; Philofophers and bards of glorious name, Pope who poffefs'd, Young rifing into fame : Congreve had long the temple's height attain❜d, Yet fcorn'd the art by which that height he gain'd. * See Johnson's Lives of the English Poets. Voltaire, by laudable ambition led To view the bard whofe works he oft' had read, "Young man! fays Congreve, you're of France I find; But polish'd manners and a liberal mind Unite us all:-yet you're deceiv'd, I fear, 'Tis as a gentleman I fee you here." Sir! quoth Voltaire, we've gentlemen in France, Who drefs, and bow, talk politicks, and-dance; But you are more—and therefore am I come: And were you not, fir, I had stay'd at home. ON MADAME SISLEY, A FRENCH LADY OF FORTUNE, FORCED TO QUIT HER NATIVE COUNTRY, ON THE REVOLUTION, AND TO SING IN PUBLICK FOR A MORE DECENT SUBSISTENCE. I. MUSICK has charms (fo poets say) "To foothe a favage breast," And beauty's univerfal fway Ev'n tyrants have confefs'd. II. Is it then true, (what we are told) That Frenchmen could, unmov'd, behold |