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Written (but not fent) to pk. PRIESTLEY, on 
the PUBLICATION of bis ADDRESS fo the 
Jews. By an HEBREW. 
Thou whofe pious hand with juft difdain 
Hath freed religion from its fervile chain ; 
Hath taught the foul with purer aim to 
raife, 
And give its maker undivided praife ; 
Accept the tribute cf an Hebrew Mufe, 
Forgive her rafhnefs, and her faults excufe. 
O coulc the fpeak her own emphatic tongue, 
And emulate the glow of antient fong ; 
Were her’s that harp the kingly fhepherd 
ftrung, 
When of the juft he all-enraptur’d fung ; 
Thy deathlefs name fhould grace immortal 
lays, 
And nations yet unborn fhould chaunt thy 
praife ! 
But now fuch tafks no longer Ifreel’s care, 
In exile doom’d their tedious lives to wear ; 
Struggling to live, unmindful of their fame, 
Their bread, alas! they feek, and not a 
name 
No patriot fpark durft fire their humbled 
breaft, 
To fee their oft repeated wrongs redreft ; 
Th’ Almighty fiat which pronounc’d their 
decom, 
Hath not in pity yet difpell’d the gloom. 
Till then withheld from each ennobling plan, 
Which makes man glory in the name of man 5 
Till then unconfcious of the facred flame, 
_ Which fires to merit, and. which lifts to 
fame : 
Jeft of the theatres, the people’s fcorn, 
Mutt we remain oblivious and forlorn ; 
And is it then to fuch thou ftretch’& the 
hand? 
E’en to the poor vile ftranger of the land! 
Pointing to where their warmeft withes tend, 
And ardent to promote the glorious end! 


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Andi canft thou, vers’d in nature and in art, 
Thus kindly ftoop to fpeak unto our heart ?* 
Durft we then venture on the hallow’d theme, 
And you not idolize, nor we blafpheme ? 
Then, Judah, were not all thy woes in vain, 
The bright reward might well o’erpay our 
pain ; 
Then may we hope to fee the nations join 
And with one voice proclaim the Oze divine ; 
W bilft man with univerfal concord ble 
Shall clafp each friend and brother to his 
breaft 5 
Idolatry no longer boaft her flame, 
One God in heaven, One on earth his name. 
J. M. 
—=Eee 
EPIGRAM BY BURNS. 
HE following epigram of the Poet Burns, 
communicated to me by a lady, in whote 
pocket-book the poet had written it with his 
ewn hand, will I troft be an acceptable addi- 
tion to your mifceilany ; 1 fhail only add that 
it was compofed extempore, and am your moit 
obedient, J. N. 
Grant me, indulgent Heaver.! that I may live 
To fee the mifcreants feel the pains they give: 
Deal freedom’s facred treafures free as air, 
Till flave and defpot be but things which 
were ! 
i 
EPIGRAM, from the FRENCHe 
N vs3in on me doth forcune frown, 
Cry’d a pretended fage, 
Wrapp’d in my virtue (like a gown) 
TL {corn her rege. 
Humpn! quoth a fpark, with wicked grin, 
Your covering’s thir! R.N. 

* <¢ To {peak unto the heart” is a Hebraifm, 
yendered in the tranflation of the Bible, ** to 
{peak kindly.” 


e x =a A 
REVIEW OF NEW MUSICAL PUBLICATIONS. 
Se 
THe Overture, Songs, Choruffis, and appre- 
priate Mufic in the grand pantomizmical Dra- 
ma, called OBI, or Three-finger'd Fack, as 
performed at the Theatre Royel Eaymarket. 
Compojed and adapted to the Aétion by S$. Ar- 
nold, Mus. Dec. Oxon. with Seleétions fren 
the moft eminent Mafters. The Waele arranged 
for the Voice and Piano-forte. 105. 64. 
Longman, Clementi, and Co. 
The perufal of Ogr has afforded us 
confideratle pleature. Genius and {i- 
ence, combined with Jong experience in 
theatrical compoiition, have contributed 
to furnifh one hundred and two pages of 
mufic, the greater part of which is at once 
original, fanciful, and perfectly dramatic. 
The work is tco voluminous to admit of 
our noticing all its merits; we fhall there- 
fore confine our remarks to a few of its 
molt prominent exceilencies. The over- 
ture, one*of the movements of which has 
for iis fubject the favage'dance in ‘Robin- 
fon Crufoe, is conftruéted on a plan pleat- 
ing, Ingenious, and varied, and runs into 
a duett and chorus, the different ftrains of 
which are happy in themfelves, and calcu- 
lated to relicve each other. The Negro 
march exhibits a ftriking novelty of ftyle, 
and the fucceeding movement, where Roia 
enters, 1s remarkably light and pi&tu- 
refque. The air, ‘© Swear by the filver 
flream,’” fung by Mr. Trueman, is full of 
eae and nature, and leads to a bold charac- 
teriftic chorus, with which it is judicioutly 
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