European Magazine,

For FEBRUARY 1795.

[Embellished with, 1. A PORTRAIT of DR. ERASMUS DARWIN. And, 2. A Vizw of the PARACLETE, near the CITY of TROYES, in CHAMPAGNE.]

County of Gloucefter. Numbers X. and XI.

Page

Information concerning the Strength,
Views, and Interests, of the Powers
presently at War,

Confiderations on the present Internal and
External Condition of France,
Gisborne's Enquiry into the Duties of
Man [concluded],

Table Talk; or, Character, Anecdotes,
&c. of Allen Lord Bathurst,
Sir William Dunkin's Epitaph on the late
Sir William Jones, Knight,
Journal of the Proceedings of the Fifth
Seffion of the Seventeenth Parliament
of Great Britain,

98

99

107

112

ibid.

Theatrical Journal: including, Plan and
Character of Andrews's" Mysteries
of the Caftie," a Dramatic Tale;
Hurlftone's" Crotchet Lodge," a
Farce, &c. &c. &c.
123
Poetry including, The Genius of Me-
lancholy, an Ode-Sonnet to the
Morning Star-Sonnet on feeing a
Robin Red-Breast take Refuge in a
Church during a hard Winter-Sonnet
to the River Moul-Song, by James
Jennings-To Mrs. Bryan, of Mar-
gate, on her giving as a Theme for her
Scholars, the Four Cardinal Virtues➡
Lines to the Memory of William Hibbs
Bevan, Efq. of Lincoln's-Inn, &c. &c. 125
An Account of the Paraclete, near the
City of Troyes, in Champagne,
Foreign Intelligence, from the London
Gazettes, &c. &c.

thors.

Yearfley's Royal Captives: A Fragment of Secret Hiftory,

94

Beltham's Memoirs of the Reign of

Domestic Intelligence,

Promotions.

Marriages.

97

Monthly Obituary.

Etchings of Views and Antiquities in the

Prices of Stocks.

129

230

236

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LONDON REVIEW,
For FEBRUARY 1795.

DR. ERASMUS DARWIN..

[WITH A PORTRAIT. ]

THE Annals of Literature fcarcely

produce a fingle inftance beyond the prefent of a perfon poffeffing the acknowledged poetical talents of Dr. DARWIN, being unknown to the world as a Poet until that period of life when the generality of mankind relinquish their attention to pursuits of that na ture. Such, however, is the fact. The fame of the author of The Botanic Garden was unknown beyond the circle of his friends until the publication of that work.

We are informed, that he is the fon of a Gentleman of good eftate near Newark upon Trent, and we should have been glad to have given his Schoolmafter the honour due to him by mentioning his name. From fchool he went to Cambridge, and was entered of St. John's College, where he took the Degree of M. B. in 1755, and in his thefes defended the doctrine that the movements of the heart and arteries are immediately produced by the ftimulus of the blood. He was a Member of the University at the time of the death of Frederick Prince of Wales in 1751, and was one of those who contributed to the Cambridge Collection of Verfes on that event, His Poem on that occafion, had it ftood unfupported by his ater productions, would have hardly been diftinguished from the rest of his coadjutors. His prefent fame, however, has occafioned an enquiry after it, and therefore we fhall prefent it to our readers,

ON that fad day what tears Britannia fhed!

How pour'd her anguish o'er the mighty dead!

Thames, on thy shore the widow'd mourn

er stood,

And figh'd her forrows to the restless flood;
Accus'd the Gods, appeal'd to every fhade,
And tore the wreathed laurel from her
head.

Ye meads enamell'd, and ye waving woods,

With difmal yews and folemn cypress

mourn,

Ye rifing mountains, and enfilver'd floods,

Repeat my fighs, and weep upon his urn. Oft in your haunts the young Marcellus ftray'd,

There oft in thought your future glories plann'd,

Bade facred Science lift her laurell'd head,

•And Peace extend her olive o'er the land. Enrich'd with all of fair, and great, and good, That guides the Monarch or adorns the Man,

Albion in him a future father view'd,

Strong o'er the world as o'er himself