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POETRY.

An Addrefs to a SIAL.

AS thy foft wax the deep impreffion

takes,

Which G- in thy fable furface makes;
So doth my heart his image ftill retain,
Where his idea ever will remain.
Thy facred trust dear seal thou ne'er
betray'd,

His kind inftructions fafely thou con-
vey'd,

(And I thofe councils ftrictly have obey'd.)

Therefore thy form I never will deftroy, Bat ever will preferve thee from annoy. A rampant lion thy device I find,

The emblem of a noble generous mind; And fuch is his that did th' impression make,

And I will ever keep thee for his fake. To thee will impart each doubt and fear,

Untill their author doth again appear; But foon I hope to fee him and to hear, Again that voice that oft has charm'd my ear.

O may my hopes no more delusive be, Then every anxious doubt and fear will

flee.

ANNA.

Lines addreffed to a Young Lady.

N vain did bounteous Heav'n beftow,
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Thofe native charms-on Mary glow;
That open unaffected mien,

That look fo gentle and ferene.
Where chaften'd beauty beams intenfe,

Amid the fmiles of innocence;
Had not th' indulgent hand of fate,
Intent to crown her happy state;
With facred fenfe enrich'd the foul,
To dignify and guide the whole.
Senfe that will all his joys refine,
Stamp ev'ry thought and word divine.
And firm preferve AFFECTIONS tie,
E'en when her charming glow shall fly;
When all those charms that are to-day
With tranfient youth fhall fleet away.

EPITAPH on an OLD MAID.

W.

UNderneath this immoveable tombftone is laid,

The remains of a generous, wealthy old maid;

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An EPITAPH for the MONSTER. HERE fafe at laft the Monster lies, Dear girls be under no furprise, He's gone and with him all his knives, With which he threatened all your lives;

And I'm plac'd here to let you know,
What course he after death did go.
And foon arriv'd, but ftrange to tell,
He firft with fpeed went poft to Hell,
Satan admittance there refus'd him,
Kick'd his breech and foundly bruis'd
him.

From thence he ftroll'd away to Heav'n

Arrived about the hour of seven ;
Or three, or four, or five, or fix,
But which is right I cannot fix;
With pleasure he the motto read,
"Knock and it shall be opened."
Therefore without much hesitating,
He knockt aloud for to be let in.
Saint Peter came, he keeps the keys,
And fo lets in whoe'er he please.
Enquir'd the place from whence he

came,

His occupation and his name. The wicked culprit answer'd bluff, "Tis Renwick"-" hold, I've heard enough,"

The faint replied, which made him grin, "I've orders not to let you in;

And, therefore, fir, without much grudging, [ing, "Away from here I'd have you trudgLeft

"Left I"-he flaid to hear no more,
But took the path he came before.
For finding none his foul wou'd fave,
Again he ftole into his grave;
And here he lies to brave all weather,
Soul and body both together.

Since neither Heaven nor Hell wou'd take it,

With caution tread left you shou'd wake it.

W. B. R.

Then add a metal that's of general use, An lile where Bacchus oft did wine produce.

He who the gallant Trojan Hector flew, And bafely round the walls in triumpht drew ;

A liquor then join which was drank by the gods, [makes no odds. And he who 'twixt princes and flaves Join the initials with care, and there'll traitway appear,

The name of a youth I fhall ever revere.

W. B. R

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DISAPPOINTED LOVE.

IN vain I fearch each scene around, To gain release from woe,

No balm to heal my mind is found,

No blifs on earth I know.

Since Emma's falfe corroding care,

My breaft doth ever tear; Unceafing grief and grim defpair, Are ever tenants there.

The calls of pleasure (once obey'd)
Now ceafe to give delight,
The forightly dance, or mafquerade,
No more my choice invite.

No more the rich enamel'd field

Can please my tearful eye,
The pureft rills which earth can yield,
Now glide unheeded by.

But to fome grove where Philomel
Warbles her plantive lay,

And folitude and filence dwell,
Each night I bend my way.

There unobferv'd my lot bewail,
Whilft grief my breaft doth fill;
Refponfive echo tells my tale,
To each furrounding hill.
Wakefield, Nov. 17, 1790.

ARE BUS.

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peace;

What cheers the mariner when forms oppofe,

[repofe; Likewife the time in which we take A poet next who fung of Satan's fall, Man's disobedience and our future call.

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ARE BUS.

FIVE letters do compofe my name,

Forward and backward read "the fame;

In mufic's charms I'm known to dwell," Then who I am be pleas'd to tell.

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FOREIGN

Vienna, Sept. 29. EVER fince the 30th of Auguft, the new fortifications at Belgrade have been demolished. Part of our troops are ftill on the Turkish territory, which are furrounded by the Turks, who are, however, very quiet and peaceable.

In Bofnia, the enemy have attempted to make invasions in feveral places, but have been always fruftrated by the vigilance of our troops.

Franckfort, Sept. 30. On the 28th of September it was proclaimed by found of trumpet, that the election of a new chief of the empire was fixed for the 30th. At the fame time notice was given, that all foreigners fhould quit the city on the preceding evening; and the Jews were enjoined not to quit their houses.

On the day of election the citizen companies, and the garrifon, occupied their pofts in the avenues to the townhoufe, the other public places, and the gates of the city.

At nine o'clock the electoral college affembled at the town-houfe, from whence they repaired on horfe-back, with the elector of Mayence at their head, to the great church of St. Barthelemy.

After mafs and Veni Creator were performed, the auguft college entered the hall of election.

Towards three o'clock in the afternoon a difcharge of 100 cannons announced that all the Tuffrages were united in favour of his majefly Leopold II king of Hugary and Bohemia.

After the publication of the election, the electoral college returned to the town-house, from whence their electoral highneffes and the ambasadors went to their hotels.

Towards five o'clock the count de Pappenheim, hereditary marshal of the empire, departed with two couriers for Afchaffenbourg, to carry the agreeable news to his Imperial and Apoftolic majefty.

The elector of Cologne took the fame route on the evening of the election, and was followed next morning by the electors of Mayence and of Treves. VOL. XXI.

NEWS.

On the 1st of October, prince Charles of Mecklenbourg arrived at Afchaffenbourg, preceded by thirty poftilions, difpatched by the electoral college with the diploma for the new chief of the empire.

Upon the 4th of October, king Leopold made his public entry into Francfort, accompanied by his confort, by the archdukes Francis and Ferdinand, with the princeffes of Naples, whom they have married, the archdukes Charles, Alexander Leopold, and Jofeph; the laft of whom fet off from Vienna on the 25th of September; and, laltly, by their Sicilian majefties, and all their court.

Rome, Oct. 2.

The pope fent a brief to the king of France, in which his holinels faid, that having read the decree of the National Affembly which gives the people leave to chufe their own bifhops, he muft declare that this would entirely detach the church of France from the holy fee. To this the king of France has replied, that he could not avoid giving the above decree of the National Affembly his royal fanction, and that he hoped his holiness would find means of fatisfying his confcience without the feparation of the church of France.

Vienna, 08. 4. Congrefs of the IIlyrian nation at Temefwar has refolved to adopt for the bafis of its grievances and wishes, the charters granted them by king Leopold the Firft, on the 16th of April, 1690, and the 20th of Auguft, 1691. The congrefs alfo came to a refolution, on the 16th of Septemher, to request his majefty to feparate the Bannat from Hungary.

The chief cities of the kingdom of Hungary have addreffed memorials to the king, requefting that they may he authorifed by him to fend deputies (chofen by themselves) to the Hungarian diet as the motive for this request, they urge the neceffity of being properly reprefented, and by deputies fpecially charged to difcufs their interefts.

Madrid, 08. 4. The Spanish frigate in which M. Salmon, the conful-general of Spain to the ftates of Morocco, went with prefents to the new emperor 4 I of

of Morocco, after having continued for many days off Tangiers, is at laft returned to Cadiz. On board of her many Spaniards, who were settled among the Moors, came paffengers, who had just reafon to dread the inhuman cruelty of the Moors. Hoftilities are already commenced. Two Moorish chebecs, captured by his majesty's fhips, are carried into Cadiz, and two others to Algeziras.

Naples, O. 5. The eruption in Mount Vefuvius ftill continues, but its violence is fomewhat abated. As the feveral lavas which have taken their course down the flanks of the volcano, for three weeks paft, have proceeded from its crater, they have feldom been able to reach the vineyards, and have as yet done but little damage. The afhes have fallen in great abundance, even at Naples, and must confiderably affect the vintage of this year. After the dreadful eruptions of 1767 and 1779, the prefent is the moft formidable that has happened.

Marfeilles, 08. 6. About ten o'clock yefterday morning, during a violent itorm of rain, the lightning fell many times in Marfeilles, and its environs, and has left fatal marks of its fury. The first burft was upon the fort of Notre Dame de la Garde; it calcined one of the port-holes, thattered to pieces a maft on which a fail was hoifted as a fignal for hips, and killed a fentinel and two invalids. The fecond troke fell on the plain of St. Michael, on the houfe of M. Rivar, an eminent phyfician, who was at that moment fitting in the veftibule with his wife. No lives were loft by this ftroke, but a third was more fatal: it fell upon a villa, a quarter of a league from the town; where the company, confifting of a great many ladies, who, frightened by the dreadful appearance of the storm, all crowded together with their domeftics into one room. The lady of the houfe, in reaching to fhut down a window, was ftruck dead. The light ning ftruck her head and breaft; her riding-habit was pierced in holes like a fieve, and her tucker, the forepart of her Thift, and the half of her drawers, were confumed. Of fome keys which he had in her pocket, not the leaft veftige remained, though her watch was not at all affected. Some

more of the company were hurt, one of them with the lofs of her fight and hearing.

Berlin, Oct. 9. A courier is just arrived from count Lufi with the news of a convention of armftice having been figned, on the 19th ultimo, by the prince of Cobourg and the grand vizir, under his mediation and guarantee, as Pruffian plenipotentiary.

Oftend, O. 12. On the 28th ult. fo early as the hour of five o'clock in the morning, a moft vigorous attack on both fides commenced; the patriots, under general Koehler, carried into the field this day a force of 12,000 men, and were fo fuccessful in the forenoon as to take 12 pieces of cannon (12 pounders), and drove the Auftrians back about twelve miles.

The patriots purfued with uncommon fuccefs and regularity till the hour of five in the afternoon, when they were decoyed by the retreat of the Austrians into fome covered works, when a dreadful flaughter took place on the patriots, who were, hy this unexpected piece of generalfhip thrown into the utmost confufion and irregularity; they had 2000 killed and wounded, and the commander, Koehler, was very near being cut off.

The Auftrians loft 700, with 270 prifoners, and the lofs of their cannon.

Madrid, 08. 8 Advices have been received here, fince thofe of the 14th inftant, containing further particulars of the terrible calamities produced by the earthquake, which happened at Óran, on the night of the 8th inftant. By thefe it appears that twenty fucceffive fhocks were felt at fhort intervals. The whole city is deftroyed, and a great part of the inhabitants and of the garrifon are bu ried under the ruins. Almost all the forts which cover that place and its diftrict are open or destroyed, fo as not to be in a fituation to refifi an attack. The interior part of the garrifon is in ruins in many places, and the confiderable number of peole who were wounded and not actually killed by this difafter remained without affiftance.

Frankfort, 08. 30. The landgrave of Heffe Caffel has at laft manifefted his defire of becoming an elector, by addreffing a memoiral to the electoral college, requesting their recommendation to the emperor for his obtaining this dignity.

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Kilkenny, O. 6. SATURDAY, the invalids and outpenfioners again assembled at the foot-barracks, and were formed into a regiment, confifting of eight companies, each company containing three ferjeants, four corporals, and 60 privates. They were all newly cloathed and appointed, and now do duty here as part of the garrison.

Plymouth, O. 7. Laft night, at feven o'clock, a moft terrible fire broke out in the flax dreffing-room and failcloth manufactory of Mr. Jardine, merchant, which raged for two hours with incredible fury.

Very fortunately timely affiftance was rendered, or the confequences would have been dreadful indeed, not only to -the other parts of this valuable manufactory, but to thofe houfes which lay contiguous to the buildings.

The firemen belonging to the Sun Fire-Office, under Mr. T. Squire, agent for that office, were confpicuoufly ferviceable; but the moft fortunate circumftance was the falling in of the building, which for a moment appeared like the blowing up of gunpowder, and made a dreadful crafh.

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grateful to the geographer, and replete with curious and entertaining matter to the virtuofo.

The Dutch are now faid to have fhewn uncommon activity in their naval department within the last three months, for that, according to the last letters from Amfterdam, fhould a continuance of preparation be neceffary, the Dutch fleet by fpring will amount to twentytwo fail of the line, from 40 guns to 74.

13. His majefty has been pleased to appoint lieutenant-general fir Robert Boyd, K. B. to be governor of Gibraltar, and major-general fir Henry Calder, bart. to be lieutenant governor.

15. Advice was received at the India-houfe, by the Fox whaler, from St. Helena, that the company's fhip London, capt. Eaftebrooke, had arrived at that ifland the 9th of Auguft; fhe failed from Bombay on the 22d of April, but did not leave the Malabar coaft till the 6th of May; from whence the brings the unpleafing intelligence that Tippoo Sultan had taken Cranganore, a place belonging to our ally, the rajah of Travancore, but that every preparation was making on our part to refift the enemy; for which purpose a detachment from the Bombay army, under the command of colonel Hartley, was encamped on an ifland near Cochin, and a detachment from the Madras army, under the command of general Mufgrave, had march

The officers and privates of the marines, as well as colonel Rolle, and the ⚫ officers and privates of the South Devon militia, were very active in their exertions on this melancholy occafion, and indeed every good fubject lent a hand to ftop the ravages of this deftructive ele-ed from Trichinopoly into the heart of

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Tippoo's country; the latter's force confifted of a large body of horse, several regiments of infantry, and a confider

Edinburgh, O. 9. Major Houghton, a gentleman of approved ability, has lately fet out on his travels, under pa-able detachment of artillery with eighty tronage of the African affociation, for pieces of ordnance, and near three promoting difcoveries in the interior months provifions. It was fuppofed that parts of Africa; he will vifit nations and this army would fhortly be followed by countries at prefent entirely unknown, general Meadows with the main body of and where no European has ever yet fet the troops. foot. From his fpirit of enterprize, and familiarity with many of the nations bordering on the western coaft of Africa, there is every profpect of his fucceeding in this hazardous undertaking. On the major's return information may be expected of the utmolt importance to the commercial intereft of this country,

The Mahrattas had joined our forces, and the Nizam of the Decan was daily expected to follow the example. Tippoo had exercifed the moft wanton and exceffive cruelties during his march.

25. Mr. Long arrived in town from Paris. He brought letters with him from his excellency earl Gower, his majey's 41 a ambafador

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