When first Columbus touch’d this distant shore, And vainly hoped his Fears and Dangers o’er, One boundless Wilderness in view appear’d No Champain Plains or rising Cities cheer’d His wearied Eye. Monsters unknown travers’d the hideous Waste, And men more savage than the Beasts they chased. But mark! How soon these gloomy Prospects clear, And the new World’s late Horrors disappear. The Soil obedient to the industrious swains, What happy Harvests crown their honest Pains, And Peace and Plenty triumph o’er the Plains. What various products float on every Tide? What numerous Navies in our Harbors ride? Tillage and Trade conjoin their friendly Aid, T’ enrich, the thriving Boy and lovely Maid, Hispania, ’tis true, her precious mines engross’d, And bore her shining Entrails to its Coast. Britannia more humane supplies her wants, The British sense and British beauty plants. The aged Sire beholds with sweet surprise In foreign climes a numerous offspring rise, Sense, Virtue, Worth, and Honour stand confest In each brave male, his prosperous hands have blessed, While the admiring Eye improved may trace, The Mother’s Charms in each chaste Virgin’s Face. Hence we presume to usher in those Arts Which oft have warm’d the best and bravest Hearts. Faint our Endeavours, wide are our Essays, We strive to please, but can’t pretend to Praise; Forgiving Smiles o’er pay the grateful task, Those all we hope and all we humbly ask. The further information that this interesting article contains it will be more satisfactory to give in the author’s own words: “The Orphan” was repeated January 28, and again February 4, with the addition of “a new Pantomime Entertainment in Grotesque Characters, called, ‘The Adventures of Harlequin and Scaramouch, with the Burgo-Master Trick’d.’” After this run of three nights it was necessary to change the programme, and so the “Gazette” for February 18, 1734-35, announces “‘The Opera of Flora; or, Hob in the Well,’ with the Dance of the two Pierrots and a new Pantomime Entertainment, etc., to begin at 6 o’clock precisely.” On Tuesday, March 25, they played the comedy called “The Spanish Fryar; or, The Double Discovery,” and on Thursday of the same week the play was repeated “for the benefit of Monimia.” Who was Monimia? This benefit seems to have closed the season, but the people must have been pleased, for on May 3 the following advertisement appears: Any gentlemen that are disposed to encourage the exhibition of plays next Winter, may have the sight of the proposals for a subscription at Mr. Shepheard’s in Broad Street. And any persons that are desirous of having a share in the performance thereof, upon application to Mr. Shepheard shall receive a satisfactory answer. N. B.--The subscription will be closed the last day of this month.