DIS To EDWIN. ISTRESSING fighs muft ever rend Your Emma's faithful breaft; For health is loft, fweet peace is fled, And grief's her conftant guest. Then ceafe, dear youth, oh ceafe to ask, O'er this her humble Mufe. Which fupplicates you ftill to prove Expect nor wish then e'er to hear EMMA. RURAL FELICITY, A PASTORAL BALLAD. From the Correfpondence of Two Lovers, Inhabitants of Lyons. A new NOVEL, published by Mers. H And here I for ever could rove. Though its bottom is clear, yet the rill Delights from the rock to defcend; So I, from ambition's fteep hill, My days in the valley would end. The waves that, fo ruffled awhile, Were, glittering, dafh'd in the fun; On the bordering violets fmile, And kifs them, and murmuring run. Thus let me the fplendor and ftrife The zephyrs that curl the blue waves! Soft whifpers that teal to the heart! And echo that talks in the caves! Peace, babblers, or only repeat The filver defcent of the fprings; The vows that to Phillis I fwore; Her name upon every tree; And fooner fhall love want a dart, Than fickleness harbour with me. J. C. S. Join these, and the name you will fee very plain ANAGRAM Of a worthy, kind, honeft, and good-IF you an ufeful inftrument natur'd fwain: In hufbandry tranfpose, A term oft us'd for cut or clip, You quickly will difclofe. Another tranfpofition will A plowed field expofe; Which last if you transpose likewise, A tribe of Ifrael fhews. A CHARAD E. MY first forces many a tear from my fecond, S. O. Who finds comfort in the endearments of my whole. REBUS J. W. L-s. be fent to Paris to prefent it perfonally as a member of the holy conclive. There are but little hopes, however, of its having much weight." Warfar, Jan. 6. We have accounts from Jaffy, that the main Ruffian army under field-marfhal prince Potemkin, went into winter-quarters immediately after marching from Bender, leaving four regiments in that fortress under gen. Kretchetnickof; the rest of the infantry are quartered in Moldavia, and the cavalry in White Ruffia and the frontier places. Ratisbon, Dec. 8. THE bufinets of the nunciatures in Germany will fhortly be referred to the decifion of the diet. The archbishops are endeavouring to obtain a conclufum, declaring the permanent eftablishment of nunciatures, impowered by any jurifdiction whatever, in Germany, as contrary to the Germanic conflitution, to the treaties made with the princes and ftates of the empire, and the decrees of the council of Bafle. Lifbon, Dec. 15. The queen has eftablifhed a junto, which is charged to examine the prefent. ftate of the regular Mons, Jan. 9. The duke of Aremorders, and to send out temporal means berg, the late grand baillie of Hainault, of meliorating them. The bishop her arrived here on the ad inft. His arrival confeffor is prefident, and the junto is was announced by the ufual demonftracompofed of Meff. Juan Pereira Ramos, tions of joy, viz. the ringing of bells, Thomas Ferreira de Veiga, Mafiarenas firing of guns, &c. When he approachand Torel, and the French fathers Jo-ed the city, upwards of 4000 citizens, feph de Rocha, of the order of St. Do-attended by the burgefs guard, went minick, and Joachim de Foyos, of the out to meet him, and conducted him in congregation of the oratory. This a kind of proceffion to the flate house, junto held its first feffion the 2d inflant, where he was complimented by the in the apartment of its prefident, at the ftates and magiftrates for his fteady adpalace of Aji ja. herence to the patriotic caufe; while the people, equally grateful, though lefs eloquent, expreffed their praises by bonfires, &c. and a general illumination throughout the town at night. Warfaw, Dec. 20. The commiffion of war has received orders to pay the new-created officers their wages from the first of this month. All the regiments of infantry, are to Vienna, Jan. 11. Ever fine the 5th be divided into eight companies; the the emperor has been mending every artillery of the crown will have four-day. This fudden turn in his health is teen of them, and that of the grandduchy of Lithuania seven. The value of the revenue of the eftates, which formerly belonged to the bishoprick of Cracow, all expences deducted, including the bishop's penfion, which is 100,000 florins, is 500,000 florins. Frankfort, Jan. 3. The bishop of Fulde has forbid the marriages of foldiers in his eftates; he has alfo eftablished a bank for the relief of his fubjects. Rome, Jan. 5. His bolinefs the Pope, as fovereign pontiff, has put his name at the head of a memorial to the general affembly of France touching the rights. of the clergy, intreating that the fathers may be candidly and patiently heard before any thing decifive takes place. One of the junior cardinals is talked of to VOL. XXI. afcribed to a falutary crifis, which took place on the preceding Wednesday night, when he threw up a quantity of putrid matter, which was confidered as the principal caufe of his illness. He is now fo well, that he tranfacts bufinefs as ufual, and reads every difpatch to and from Peterburgh, Jaffy, &c. &c. Fieldmarfhal Laudohn, who was never in better health, frequently paffes hours together with the emperor; and a report is current, that, fhould circumflances require it, this fortunate and galiant veteran will take upon him the command of the army in Bohemia and Silefia, which at this moment confifts of 75,000 men. From prefent appearances, it may be prefumed the next fpring will open a dreadful scene of war, as the emperor has fent the moft preffing P orders |