1446 ANNUAL REGISTER, 1790 
See all the Arts, (a focial tribe !) 
With friendly zeal around thee wait, 
Keen from thy fpirit to imbibe 
New lights to dignify their ftate ! 
From thee, with rare experience fraught, 
They afk what Afric’s unknown genius taught, 
? , Loft knowledge to revive, or aid inventive thought, 
Doft thou not fee in folemn dreams, 
as thy letter’d vigils ceafe, 
re of life-fupporting ftreams, 
nt of commerce, wealth, and peace, 
Imperial Nile, before thee rife >— 
My mental eye his awful form efpies, 
While the indignant Power in honeft anger cries: 
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« O Bruce, by my indulgence led 
«« To fcenes no ancients might explore, — 
« To thofe coy fountains latent head, 
«© Whence all my genial gifts I pour; 
«: Since I, as kind as thou waft bold, 
« Shew’d thee my wonders, why doft thou withhold 
** What Science bids thy hand to all her fons unfold? 
« Remember, as my fruitful tide 
«© Throws verdant life on lands below ; 
« So, round the world, ’tis Britain’s pride 
« New ftreams of mental light to throw! 
«« And happieft they, though Envy lower, 
« Who moft increafe thy country’s richeft power, 
« Her radiance of renown, from intellectual dower!’ 
INS. T RUC T TO NLS wl "aiP O:-R TER; 
By the late Mr. BeppincGFriEe Lp, of NEWCASTLE, 
Y OU, to whofe care I’ve now confign’d 
My houfe’s entrance, caution ufe 
While you difcharge your’ truft, and mind: 
Whom you admit, and whom refufe.. 
Let no fierce Paffions enter here, 
Paffions the raging breaft that ftormy, 
Nor fcornful Pride, nor fervile Fear, 
Nor Hate, nor Envy’s pallid form. 
Should 4v’rice call—you’ll let her know 
Of heap’d-up riches I’ve'no ftore, 
And that fhe has no right to go 
' Where Plutus has not been before.. 
