TO SLEEP. ful throws VEIL'D in the hue that midnight aw In grief to make my moan, A lover, forely preft with grief, Hails thee, and afks thy kind relief; O footh me in thy gentle arms, With all thy winning lovely charms; O let me in thy bleffed comforts fhare! Nor longer let me afk thy aid in vain ; With pity clofe my fwollen eyes, And flop with pleafing dreams my fighs, Difplay my fair one with a smile, And ev'ry anxious fear beguile: O ease my breaking heart of ev'ry pain! CANSICUS. "AND is he dead? - And is he dead?”" Wi' heart-fwoln grief he cry'd. "He's dead and gane!-He's dead and gane!" Sad Memory reply'd. His grief to hide, could not abide- Then up he took his wee bit book, The Mavis' Neft was there; And drapt a tender tear. And that was a' that he cou'd ca' E. S. J. Mentz, 08. 10. YESTERDAY, the imperialifts poffelfed themselves by affault of Rochufberg, and, at two in the afternoon, they entered, drums beating, into Bingen, where, they found feveral cannon and howitzers. The imperialifts have alfo beaten a republican corps, near Landau and Weiffembourg. "Head-quarters at Milan, 17th Vendemiaire, Otober 10. "Five hundred men of the garrifon of Mantua made a fortie, on the 8th, at ten o'clock of the morning, from the place, having paffed the Po at Borgo forte for the purpofe of feeking forage. In the mean time, at five in the afternoon we blockaded Mantua, and made ourselves mafters of the posts of Pradella and of Cerife. This detachment finding itself feparated from Mantua, wifhed to retreat to Florence. On its arrival at Reggio, the inhabitants were inftructed of what had happened, ran to arms, and prevented it from paffing, and obliged it to retreat into the chateau of Montecieroglo, upon the estates of the duke of Parma. The brave inhabitants of Reggio purfued them, invefted them, and made them prifoners by capitulation. In the cannonade which has taken place, the national guards of Reggio have had two men killed. They are the firft who have fhed their blood for the liberty of their country." pears that the republicans are very ftrong there. Milan, 17th Vendemiaire, O&tober 10. The enemy having been disturbed by the fire to which they were exposed between our pofts and the citadel, made a fortie, with a defign of taking fome forage; they came by the way of the citadel to Soave, and attacked the chateau of Prada, defended by the chief of battalion Dulons, at the head of three hundred men of the 69th demi-brigade. A battalion of the demi-brigade, and one piece of cannon, having arrived to reinforce the poft, the enemy having been routed and purlued to the glacis of the citadel, the republicans have made about 200 prifoners, and have killed fifty men and horfes. On the fide of the French fome men have been wounded. Among the officers who have diftinguifhed themfelves, we must mention citizen Magne, captain of the 69th demi-brigade, who has made 117 prifoners, with a fmall detachment of his demi-brigade. Turin, Sunday, October 16. On the night of Thurfday the 13th inftant, his Sardinian majefty was feized with an apoplectic fit, which for fome time deprived him of speech. The immediate application of blifters and bleeding brought his majefty to his fenfes the next morning. During this interval the facraments were adminiftered. Towards Frankfort, O. 10. It is certain the evening alarming fymptoms rethat the imperialists furround Landau, turned, and recourfe was had to a third near which place there is a continual bleeding in the foot, which not proving firing. They have advanced into Al-efficacious, the extreme unction was adface, where, in the manner of the miniftered. Frenchy they demand contributions, His majefty lay fpeechlefs, and with and take hottages for the payment of one fide wholly pallied. during the them. In the Hunfdruck, the Au-night. At five yefterday morning he ftrians threaten Kreutznách; but it ap- was pronounced to be à l'agonie, and VOL. XXVII. 3 X ic it was not imagined he could outlive the day. His majefty, however, lingered till near noon this day, when he expired, as fincerely lamented by all his fubjects as he had conftantly lived beloved and refpected by them, during a reign of upwards of twenty-three years. This melancholy event has plunged all the royal family into the deepeft affliction.. Paris, 29th Vendemiaire, October 11. We hope foon to receive the news of the furrender of Mantua, as the numerous garrison of that place is faid to be in want of provifions. Lorrach. The army is well difpofed, and in a formidable fituation. Paris, 08. 20. The court of Madrid ordered, on the 5th of October, the English ambassador to quit the Spanifh territory. Letters from Cadiz inform us, that there failed from that port, on the 26th September, a fleet compofed of 19 ships of the line,, 10 frigates, 4 corvettes, befides xebecs. It is prefumed that this fquadron will go to Carthagena, to be joined by 12 other hips and 8 frigates ; and that it will go immediately to open the harbour of Toulon, and join the naval force of the republic. The army of the Sambre and Meufe, and that of the north, united, form, it is faid, a corps of 80,000 men, well dif ciplined-thanks to the firmness of ge They ftate from Italy that general Buonaparte and the commiffioners of the directory have published a proclamation, by which they declare that the duke of Modena has loft the confidence of the French republic, and that, in confequence, the people of Modena are put under its protection. The motives for this declaration are not ftated. Brigadier general Reyner gives an account of the anterior operations of the army of the Rhine and Mofelle, in a letter dated Waldftacten, Sept. 23." The retreat," fays he, "weneral Bournonville. are now effecting, in order to approach our ftrong places, by no means difpirits our foldiers. Let the army of the Sambre and Meufe but refume offenfive operations, and all will be well. The diverfion which general Deffaix was ordered to make in Franconia, towards Nuremberg, at the head of 10,000 men, was chiefly intended to prevent the archduke's army from receiving fupplies from that quarter. But this expedition was too late, as the archduke had already ordered the faid fupplies to reach him by another road than that of Nuremberg. General Deflaix has, therefore, rejoined the army." The firft report, fent in by general Bournonville, commander in chief of the army of the Sambre and Meufe, concerns the known affair near Meniz, on the 27th of September. Strafburgh, 23d Vendemiaire, 08. 16. The general in chief, Moreau, is arrived here to night; he comes from Fribourg. He has paffed with the divifions commanded by general St. Cyr, which have forced their way through the valley of Enfer, and beaten the enemy, over whom they have obtained very important fuccefles. We are affured that the directory have abandoned their pretenfions upon the confcience of the pope, and they confent that he fhall remain the head of a government, but not of a religi aus affociation. There is no doubt now but that peace with the court of Rome will be fhortly concluded. If we believe letters from Venice, 13,000 Croats are marching from Carinthia to reinforce the army of Wurmfet. We are affured that Buonaparte demands reinforcements. The treaty of peace with the king of Naples was ratified by the council of five hundred on the 16th of October. Hamburgh, Oct. 21. The ministers of the German princes who lately returned to Ratifion, have defired that the deliberations of the diet be refumed. The general is this moment at Kehl. The elector palatine has appointed The polition of prince Charles is conf-prince Frederic of Ylenburg, tempoderably worse, and he proposes to night rary governor-general of the territories to return to Fribourg. of Bavaria and the upper palatinate. We are affured that general Deffaix occupies the back of the mountains; that general Ferino is befide the foreft towas, and that head quarters are at Ratifban, 08. 21. On the 17th, the first fitting of the diet took place, when a letter of thanks and congratulation was propofed to the emperor, for the glorious glorious progrefs of his arms, and the happy effects which that event produced in the empire. The French have now been three months in poffeflion of the Brifgaw. Generals Labonde, Ferinot, Mangot, and Tipolme, who fucceffively had the command there, obferved the strictest difcipline, and the inhabitants fpeak much in their praise; but the cafe is different with the countries adjacent to Bafle, subject to the command of general Tuncq. They have fuffered feverely from the depredations and acts of violence committed and tolerated by that Vendéan general. He has been cashiered, and a letter from the minifter at war to M. Bacher, dated Auguft 25 ftates, that the arbitrary orders of general Tuncq fhall doubtlefs be the last of which the inhabitants of the conquered countries fhall have to complain. Vienna, O. 22. The reigning prince of Efterhazy, who has 90,000 fubjects in Hungary and Sclavonia, has prefented a corps of 1800 huffars, ready equipped, to the emperor, to be maintained at the prince's expenfe during the war. Frankfort, O. 22. We have juft received intelligence that general Moreau has given battle to general Petrafch, who had established himself between Offenburg and Friburgh, and cut off the communication between Kehl and the French army. The advantage was with the republicans, who are faid to have taken all the baggage and the artillery of general Petrafch. This engagement must have happened on the 20th. However, at the departure of the meffenger, the archduke's head-quarters were fill at Offenburgh, but Moreau's army was advancing towards Kehl. Letters from Augsburgh, of the 18th, anwounce that general Buonaparte caufed to be arrelted at Modena the privy counsellors Fefti, Prati, Hippoliti and Leperoni, who were conducted to the prifons of Milan. Paris, Oct. 23. Lord Malmesbury, minifter plenipotentiary from the cabinet of St. James's, made his entry into Paris. He had a very numerous and brilliant attendance. He has with him four fecretaries of embally, one of whom is the brother of lord Gower, and the other Mr. Ellis. Two of these arrived the day before at Paris. Hamburgh, Nov. 1. From Nice, we learn that the French general Gaurier had arrived there with a detachment of troope, and had fuperfeded general Cafabianca in the command of the coaft.It seems that the frontiers are infested with numerous angs of robbers, that lay the country under contribution. The new general having ordered a cordon to be formed, a part of the nztional guards were to be ready for marching at the fhorteft notice. Paris, Nov. 3. A letter from Toulon announces that the Spanish fleet, confilling of 29 fail, 25 of which are fhips of war, has paffed Toulon, steering caftward. Another letter from Barcelona, of the the 20th of Vendemiaire, flates that the English fquadron of seven fail of the line and two frigates were feen off the Cape de Gates, and that the Spanish fleet was in purfuit of them. General Jourdan is at Paris. The military council of the Temple is at length diffolved. They have paffed judgment on all the confpirators of Grenelle. The laft who appeared before them were ordered aloft all for tranfportation. There were denounced in the lat fecret council feven general officers of the Rhine and Mofelle, charged with having contributed to the diforders of that army. It appears from the report made by the minifter of war to the directory, that the reforms and economies introduced into his department had reduced the expenfes to forty millions per month. Porto Ferrajo is, it is faid, to he a bandoned as well as Corfica. The Englifh thus abandon the Mediterranean, and proceed, we hear, against the Spanish colonies. Lord Malmesbury and his fuite were three days ago at the theatre de la Rue Feydeau. The day before yesterday he went to fee the pictures in the Louvre;-It is not true that the Spanish amballador lives with his lordship at the hotel Grange Bateliere. The marquis del Campo lives in the grand hotel of the Tuilleries, Rue St. Honoré, 3 X 2 HOME HOME NE W S. Dover, October 18. LORD Malmesbury, with his attendants, failed this morning at half paft ten for Calais, where it is proba ble, from the ftate of the weather, that he would arrive in the courfe of the afternoon. His lordship was dispatched with the best wishes, and three times three cheers from the pier. The em bargo in the French ports feems ftill to be in force. No veffel has now arrived for the last ten days from Calais, or any other part of France. was the mails to and from Yarmouth and Cuxhaven, as the veffels at prefent em ployed on that ftation are found too fmall to encounter the very boisterous feas of the north, in the winter. 25. This morning the king, accompanied by the prince of Wales, duke of York, prince Erneft, general Lake, his majefty's aides-de-camp,general officers, and a numerous affemblage of fpectators, reviewed, on Wimbledon Common, the royal regiment of Oxford Blues, commanded by the duke of Richmond, who gave the word of command; the corps, who have merited the reward of their country from their services in Germany, went through their evolutions with that veteran fpirit which has gained them the refpect of their love great fatisfaction. When the review was over, the duke of York in his eurricle followed his majefty to the queen's houfe, and had a long interview. At two o'clock, the queen, and three elder princeffes, entered the prince's chambers, St. James's; the duke of Clarence, prince Erneft, the foreign envoys, and several of the cabinet minifters, the fheriffs of London, the gentlemen who were prefent with the king on Wednesday, with a small circle of female nobility, attended on this occafion. 19. This evening, about half paft feven o'clock, as col. Congreve, of the royal artillery at Portsmouth, returning to that place in a poft-chaife, accompanied by his fon, the carriage was flopped on Fair Hill by three foot-reign and officers: their manœuvres gave pads, two of whom came to the doors, while the other flood by the horfes heads. Col. Congreve's fon immediately discharged a piftol at the fellow who came to his fide of the chaife, and which, it is fuppofed, wounded him, as he lodged the contents of his piftol entirely in the door pannel of the chaife, and did not appear again. The poftboy was defending himself at this time with a broad fword against the man who flopped him, and who, after firing his piftol without effect, drew a cutlaf's and was making furioufly at him when col. Congreve feizing the opportunity, discharged a pistol, the ball of which, in all probability, took place, as he made off, though, at the fame moment, the third robber returned to the chaife, and attempted to discharge a pistol clofe to the colonel's breaft, which fortunately only flafhed in the pan, and he then retreated. The fellow who attacked the poft-boy is fuppofed to have oeen very much cut, as the fword of the latter was very bloody. 20. Four new packet-boats for the Poft Office department are nearly fi pished in the river, deftined to convey The gentlemen, confifting of general Simcoe, &c. were the fame as those who were prefented to the king on the preceding day, in addition to whom, were Mrs. King, the American minifer's lady, introduced to the queen by lady Grenville; her drefs was white and filver, tastefully worked in bunches of rofes, hyacinths, and pomegranates; and her attire received additional fplendour by the elegance and beauty of her perfon. Meffrs. Langflone, and Staines paid their refpects to her majefty, for the |