430 Select Poetry, ancient and modern, for May, 1786, Yet, kold; methinks my words feem loft. On the Wreck of the HALSEWELL E in air, And fmiles of candour for the bard declare; For here no fecret influence e'er was known, But merit triumphs in berfelf alone. As all who know ye, muft in this agree, A British audience ever will be free. EPILOGUE TO THE CAPTIVES. Written ly THOMAS VAUGHAN, Esq. Spoken by Mrs. SIDDONS. T length our bark has reached the wished for thore, AT The winds are hufh'd-but is all danger o'er ? The trembling bard ftill hovers o'er the main Still dreads the dancing waves that lash in vain; Clings like th' affrighted failor to the mast, And thudders at the dangers he has past. Dangers indeed-for who, in times like thefe, [feas? Would launch his ship to plough dramatic Where growling thunders roll, and tempefts 1weep Such crowds of bold adventurers to the deep. O'er his poor head the winds of malice blow, And waves of angry cenfure rage below. Critics, like monsters, on each fide appear, Herald, the whale; and thark, the Gazetteer If there he chance t'efcape, there comes a fquall From Lloyd's, St. James's, London, or Whitehall; Here Chronicle, like Scylla, guards the coaft, There foams Charybdis-in the Morning Poft. Mark how they break his rudder, cut his cable, Tear up plan, di&tion, fentiment, and fable ; That in fuch boisterous feas his bark's alive? Who could refift, when thus the fhewed her charms, Soothed his fond hopes, and wooed him to her arms? Half rigg'd, half mann'd, and leaky, as you find, [wind. He trick'd his frigate out, and braved the Your partial favour still may fwell hia fails, And fill his veffel with propitious gales; Though peppered with small shot, and tempeft offed, You fill may land him on this golden coast; Convinced that those the furgft path purfue, Who truit their all to candour and to you. S round the chef that Danae bore, The raging winds tremendous roar, And, rifing with terrific found, The foaming billows break around, While tears her pallid cheeks dedew, Sad o'er the babe her arms the threw : Alas my child, what pangs of care How would my accents pierce thine ear! F RONDEAU. Sung by Mrs. WEICHSELL, Huth my ardent thoughts to reft! Rais'd a tumult in my breath. Hence be all ungentle paffions, That to raging frenzy rofe, Crouded joys, and gaudy fashions! Every fenfe muft have repofe. IGNOTUS recommends a Republication, in a separate Volume, of the Political Debates in our Magazine, which are known to have been compiled by Dr. Johnfon, and are generally held in very high Eftimation. "From reading them," he fays, "Voltaire entertained fo favourable an Opinion of English Oratory, as to "place it on a level with that of Athens and of Rome. With Notes to explain "particular Paffages, and Anecdotes of the moft diftinguished Speakers, it might "be rendered a most useful and valuable Publication." We thank him for the Hint; but as Sir John Hawkins has already undertaken to give a complete Series of Dr. Johnson's valuable Works, we shall wait till we have feen the learned Knight's Edition. We are requested to infert the Table of the Changes of the Moon for this Year; and are ready to do fo, if we are favoured with a Copy of it.-G. B. withes to know whether Sir W. Jones be the Author of the elegant Verses on the Power of Love: "And still muft Beauty's fairy Charm "Breathe o'er my Soul its wanton Fires," &c.; and who was the Editor of "Anacreontis Teii Carmina: accuratè edita; cum "Notis perpetuis; et Verfione Latinâ, Numeris Elegiacis paraphrafticè exprefsâ. "Londini, 1933."-G. joins A. Z (vol. LIII. p. 392) in requesting fome of our Mathematical Readers to favour him with a Method of dividing a given Part of a Circle into any affigned Number of equal Parts.-PHILALETHES obferves, that Mr. Chambers (fee vol. LV. p. 671) was born at Melton, a fmall Village a few Miles from Kendal; on which, fee his Article in the Biographical Dictionary.We thank Mr. VAN GOENS for his Reference to the Life of Duncan Campbell.P. expreffes himself much pleased with our Index Indicatorius. "It gives an ex"cellent View," he fays, "of the fuperabundant Matter, and ftrikes the Reader "with a stronger Notion of the Richness of our Stores, by expofing to his Sight "what he might have otherwife never thought of."-J. B. B. B. enquires for Anecdotes of John Hartcliffe, D. D. Fellow of King's College, Cambridge, Author of "A Treatife of Moral and Intellectual Virtue, &c. 1691." See p. 207.J. B.'s Notes and those from Harlestone are received.-Alumnus Glafguenfis will be fatisfied by referring to our Vol. LIV. p. 575.--The Hint of our good Friend Philusbanus has been already anticipated by the ingenious Mr. Carter, who has given faithful Refemblances of the Articles recommended to us, in his " Specimens "of ancient Sculpture."-The curious Communication from the Heralds College is engraving for our next; with the famous Monument of Sir Robert de Shurland at Minfter, Julian's Bower, a curious Ice Boat, &c.-The Correspondent who has overlooked "the List of last Year's Plates" will find it at the End of the "Index "to Part I." He will fee alfo the Four Letters which gave Birth to be Tolondron in pp. 497, 608, 675, and 760, of our laft Volume. We fhall NOT review that fingular Publication, as, notwithstanding the handfome Compliments paid to us by its Author, we cannot but confider ourselves as Parties before the CourtA Conftant Reader withes fome of Mr. Urban's Correfpondents would dir.ft him where to find the Story of "A Cock and a Bull," fo often alluded to 1 common Converfation. "There is a Cock and a Bull Story;" who would not think, but that this Saying referred to fome known Fable?-S. H. fays, "The Author of Gaudentio di Lucca was the late Dr. Swale, of Huntingdon, as his Son informed a Gentleman of my Acquaintance. No good Son of the Church of Rome could "have written that Book."-The Illuftration of the THIRD Figure in our Second Plate came to Hand too late for the prefent Month, but fhall appear in our next.W. afks, Whether there is any publifhed Poem extant with this Title: "Ruftica "Academiæ Oxon. nuper Reformata Defcriptio, in Vifitatione Fanaticâ, Oct. 6, "1648, cum Comitiis ibidem Anno fequente. Per I. A. S. T. P. Mag. O.?"Prefbyter Cantuarienfis shall appear in our next; as fhall the Letter figned W. A. and dated May 26, which did not come to Hand till May 29, and was then brought by a poor Traveller, who said “he found it on the high Road between Oxford and "Henley."-Of the Books pointed out to us by H. H. fome will probably come under the Infpection of our Reviewers. We do not profefs to review EVERY Book that appears, though our Monthly Catalogue endeavours to point them out.-J. S. (from MH-) has given us fome Information relative to the Family in the Weft, alluded to in our laft Index; which we should have no Objection to use, if better authenticated. We have turned in vain over the London Chronicles from 1766 to 1772, in fearch of the Original Information. FOREIGN T FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. HE news from Conftantinople and St. Petersburg begins to wear a most unfavourable aspect. Upon the complaint of the Empress of Roff, relative to the incurfions of fome hordes tr.butary to the Grand Signior in a country protected by her, the Divan have answered, That the country spoken of by the Emprefs had always been under the protection of the Porte, and that they cannot think by what right her Majesty declares herfelf protect refs of the princes who govern the above countries. A letter from Petersburg has the following article: "A courier is just arrived from Conftantinople, and it is reported that our ambafador has defired leave to return home, declaring that the fituation of affairs in that country makes it unfafe for him to continue there, for that a revolution will foon take place, and then a war must inevitably follow." On receiving the above account, a courier was immediately dispatched to Conftantinople with orders for our ambaffador to quit that capital as privately as possible. It is the current-report, that upon the arrival of the last difpatches at Petersburg from the Ruffian minister at Conftantinople, an extraordinary affembly of all the minifters of ftate took place in prefence of the Emprefs of Ruffa, when it was determined to fend a courier immediately to Conftantinople with orders for M. Bulgakow, the Ruffian minifter, immediately to quit that capital without taking leave, and as privately as poffible. The report is confirmed, that the different fovereigns of Italy are going to enter into a league together, of which the King of Sard'nia is faid to be the first projector, and to which it is said the courts of Vienna, Naples, and the republic of Venice, have acceded. It is alfo faid,, that the Empress of Ruffia is inclined to fecond the above league; the object of which is, to drive the Turks out of Europe, and to deliver those fertile countries, which were once the feat of arts, literature, and liberty, from the hands of ignorance and flavery. The Emperor is faid to have refumed the two important affairs which of late feemed to have lain dormant, viz. the election of the King of the Romans, and the erection of a new electorate. To the former, nobody doubts the fucceffion of the Arch-duke Francis; but the latter is of a more delicate negociation, and demands two concurring circumftances; first, a marriage between the Arch-duke and the niece of the Duke of Wurtemburgh; and fecondly, the acquiefcence of the Landgrave of Heffe Caffel, who is a zealous member of the Germanic lesgue; both of which objects are in ferious contemplation. The News from Spain of the disgrace of the Count O'Reilly, who enjoyed one of the best governments in that kingdom, and who was honoured with feveral military signities, has given occafion to various conjectures By order of government, he has been ftripped of all his civil and miliary promotions, and er dered to quit Cadiz, and retire to one of his own eftates, on a very moderate penfion. The cause of this difgrace is unknown to the public. EAST INDIA INTELLIGENCE. The directors of the Eaft India Company have received a list of the whole civil and military eftablishments in India, and have prefented the fame to parliament, as follows: Bengal civil eftablishment is. military establishment Eaft-India Houfe, 927.945 1,078,510 104,140 623,605 45,719 226,495 25,478 £. 3,031,893 JOHN ANNIS, Auditor of India accounts. The Bengal government have opened their treasury for the loan of 180,000l. on bills drawn on the Eaft-India Compony at 365 days fight, at 2s. 1d. the current rupee; with liberty for the Company to take a fur ther time, on paying an advanced intereft, as fpecified in the propofals. They have appropriated, and actually fent, NINE LACKS AND A HALF [813 000 l.] to supply the exigencies of the Carnatic. The following authentic account of the burning of the Montague Indiaman has been received from on board the Rodney juft arrived, and drawn up by Mr. James Elliot, who belonged to the Montague, and was on board when the accident happened: "December 6, 1785, as we lay at Diamond Point, about feventy mils below Calcutta, we had taken in 4100 bags of falt petre, and were towing them, the caulker's mate was going to heat pitch upon the upper deck, to pay his work, he called down the fore-hatchway to the gunner's boy, to hand him up fome fire upon a fmall fhovel of the armourer's, to make a fire in the forge to heat his pitch; the boy handing the fire up the fore-hatchway (the fore-hatches being unlaid) let a piece of the fire fall down upon the falt-petre (one of the bags having burst); there was loofe falt-petre in the fquare of the hatchway, which immediately caught fire. We attempted to fmother it; but the flames increased so fast that we could not say above three minutes in the hold after the first took. Mr. Benger, the chief officer, came down into the hold, but was forced to go up again immediately. Our cutter and yawl were hawled on fhore; and the long-boat was aground Interefting Advices from Eaft and Weft Indies, America, &c. 433 aground in Diamond Creek. I came up out of the hold with the chief officer, and went into the stern-gallery to look for a boat: The third officer was then almoft along-fide the Dutton, with fome men in the jolly boat. Perceiving there was no affiftance near, I left Mr. Benger in the ftern-gallery, and got out of one of the quarter-ports into mizen-chain, and jumped over-board; when I fwam under the ftern, Mr. Benger was hanging on by a rope, which he quitted, and immediately the thip blew up. From thence I never faw any more of Mr. B. Mr. Williams, the third officer, picked me up in the jolly-boat, with a great many more. I was not above twenty yards from the ship when the blew up. From the first of her taking fire till her explofion, did not exceed five minutes. We loft-Mr. Benger, the chief officer; Mr. M'Intoh, the fifth of ficer; Mr. Simpfon, furgeon's-mate; Mr. Wier, Mr. Vincent Williams, Mr. Collins; Mr. Chamberland, midfhipman; Mr. Sangfter, gunner; and twenty-five foremaft men." WEST INDIA INTELLIGENCE. By the Laft advices from Jamaica, the Americans continue to carry on a contraband trade with that ifland; in confequence whereof, the commander on that ftation having intelligence of five veffels at anchor in St. Anne's harbour, laden with tobacco and other goods, he immediately difpatched the Bull-dog cutter, and seized the whole. The men were landed, and the goods condemned. How this will be received by Congress, fays the writer, time will thew. AMERICAN INTELLIGENCE, An act was paffed on the 11th of March laft, authorifing the delegates of the province of South Carolina (and of course a fimilar at must be passed in all the other provinces of the UNITED STATES) to fubfcribe and ratify an agreement for altering part of the articles of confederation and perpetual anion between the United States of America, to wit, fo much of the 8th of the articles, as charges the expencees that fhall be incurred for the common benefit and defence of the faid union, to be raised in proportion to the value of land in each ftate: In the place whereof it is declared, that all the expences that fhall be incurred for the common defence, &c. fhall be supplied by the feveral itates in proportion to the whole number of white and other free citizens and inhabitants of every age, fex, and condition, including thofe bound to fervitude for a term of years, and three-fifths of all other perfons not comprehended in the foregoing defcription, except Indians not paying taxes in each state; which number thall be judiciously taken and tranfmitted to the United States in Congrefs affembled, in fuch mode as they shall direct and appoint.. By a message from the governor of South Carolina to both Houfes of Affembly, on the 11th of March, the Chaftaw Indians had come to request a talk, which had been granted them. There were two men among them, Tinetimengo, or the red wood-pecker, and Spokahomo, a young man, and fon so the head warrior of all the Chactaws. Tintimingo. I have come to fee you, to take you by the hand, and to be brothers with you. The Chactaws and Chickefaws are one people, and in the name of the two people I have taken you by the band. I am an old man, but have many young men. We are all your friends, and will take up the hatchet for you. We have not come t❤ beg any thing of you. We are come to fee you in love, and whatever you are pleased to give we will receive thankfully we ask nothing. We have been troubled by the Creeks in our way. They want us to join. against your beloved men. The Cracks have killed fome of our people, which has made us come a great way round to fee you, and to tell you, if the Creeks make war upon you, we will fight your battles. Tell us what we shall do, and we will do it. Spokabome. My father is the head was rior of our people, and has fent me down to you as the beloved Head Warrior of your people; and whatever talk you will give us, I will carry back, and it shall be spoke aloud to all our people. I and the people with me have come a long way We have seen you, and our hearts are rejoiced and trait. I have not come as a foake in the grafs, with a forked tongue: 1 come as a man, and I hope to be received by men.-What I lay I will ftand to. My father, nor myfett, nor any of our people, have ever yet walked on the Spaniards ground, nor will we. I am but a boy yet, I hope to live to be a Warrior. The Governor's Anfwer. I take you by the hand, and am rejoiced to fee you. Your people and our people have always been brethren. It is a long time fince any of your people have been in Charles Town; and now you are come, we are glad. to fee you, and hope the path will always be ftrait between us. I am glad that you and the Chickefawe are one people; they are great warriors, and our friends. I am forry the Creeks have killed your people. If the Creeks fhould make war upon us, our beloved men from the North will fend us a mighty army, and drive them from their country. I thank you for your offer to fight our battles for us; but cannot think of fuffering your men to be killed for us, and we fit ftill. No: If we want you, we will fend for you, and give you powder and bullets, and good guns, and then we will go forth and fight together. Brother Spokahomo, I rejice to hear the good talk from the great warrior your fa cheep 434 Remarkable Intelligence from Ireland. ther, and for fending you to me. I hope the path will ever be ftrait between us as Jong as the trees grow upon the ground, and the waters continue to run in the rivers. I am glad you come as a man, and not as a fnake in the grass. I receive you as a man, and believe what you fay, that you will fand by us, and act like a man and a Warrior. Brothers, I hope you will take care of yourselves when you are going home, and not go by the Creeks country. I with you a good journey, and safe home again. Haw poor and infipid to the talks in former times! IRELAND. Some farther particulars relative to the trial of Mr. Fitzgerald and his accomplices. (See p. 346.) The concourfe of people which croaded to Caßlebar to hear the trial was fo great, that the judges, on opening their com miflion, were alarmed left the court-houfe floor fhould give way, and the whole company be involved in its ruins. This alarm Ipreading, the people took fright, and, all crouding to get out, the confufion was paft defcription. The judges, with their officers, and as many of the counsellors as were near, got into the jury-room; and as for the rest they got out as well as they could till the alarm ceafed. In the mean time the prifon ers in the Dock, had they not been ironed, might have escaped, for nobody remained to look after them. As foon as the alarm was over, the bufinefs of the affize went on; which, being only to open the court with the ufual forms, was foon over, and the court adjourned. On the fecond day's proceeding, April 18, the chief baron ordered the feveral prifoners charged with the murder to be brought up and arraigned; among whom were George Robert Fitzgerald, Timothy Brecknock, Andrew Creagh, James Foy, William and John Fulton, John Chapman, and Walter Kelley. Mr. Fitzgerald being firft called, Mr. Stanley faid, his client, Mr. Fitzgerald, was ia fuch a state of mind and body, that it was not fafe for him to be brought into court, as his life would thereby be endangered. He therefore prayed, that the trial might be put off till next affizes. And further prayed, that his lordship, out of his humanity, would be pleafed to go down to the gaol to take his affidavit, as he [Mr. Stanley] believed it was a frequent practice on fimilar occafions in the city of Dublin. Added to this, Mr. Ulick Burke ftated, that Mr. Fitzgerald laboured under a cutaneous diforder, that made it unsafe for him to get out of bed.. On the other hand, Dr. Boyd declared that Mr. Fitzgerald might be brought up with fafety in his bed. 7 The court then adjourned for half an hour, in which time Mr. Fitzgerald was brought into court in his bed, where he was arraigned as being prefent, aiding, and abetting, and affifting in the murder of Patriek Randal Macdonnel, Efq; as were Timothy Brecknock, Andrew Creagh, James Foy, William and John Fulton, John Chapman, and Walter Kelley for the fame offence. When Mr. Brecknock was called to plead, he faid there did not appear to be any conftat of a true bill against him: that in that cafe the prefumption of the law was, that the bill was ignored, and claimed as his right to have a fight of the true bill. The C. B. directed the clerk of the crown to proceed; and the bill ending, “againft the form of the ftatute," Mr. Brecknock afked what ftatute? to which the court anfwered that he was now premature. When the question how will you be ❝ tried?" was put to him, and the clerk of the crown defited him, as ufual, to answeɛ "by God and my country," Mr. Brecknock faid, I thould choose to be tried by God, and not by your country. After being repeatedly urged to anfwer in the ufual manner, the C. B. informed him, that if he did not anfwer in the ufual manner, he muft proceed according to law, to confider him as mute, and país fentence on him accordingly. Mr. Brecknock faid it was impoffible to be tried by God and the country, they were diftin&t propofitions; but being again urged by the C. B. he made the ufual answer. Brecknock was formerly an English folli citor; but for many years the friend and companion of Mr. Fitzgerald. He made a molt deplorable figure, dreffed in a dirty white coat, his hair grizzled, and his beard of confiderable length, frouzy, and quite grey. When Mr. Fitzgerald was arraigned, he produced an affidavit purpofely for poftponing his trial; which the Attorney General faid it was not his with to prefs forward; but thought it his duty to inform him, that it would certainly come on long before the next affizes. The C. B. thought it very right in the Attorney General to acquaint Mr. Fitzge rald that he must be speedily tried. The peace of the country required it. Human nature will be human nature fill; and where crimes like his are perpetrated, it is impoffible not to feel refentment. The Attorney General declared, that Go vernment had ordered him to prosecute the gentlemen that had wounded Mr. Fitzgerald in prifon with the fame rigour as Mr. Fitz gerald himself. Mr. Fitzgerald has fince petitioned, the Lord Lieutenant to be tried in the court of King's Bench, Dublin, and not by a special commiffion at Caftlebar. The petition fets forth, that the prejudices of the county are |