CONSTANCY,
FROM HORACE, LIBER I. ODE Xxii.
Pone me pigris ubi nulla campis, &c.
PLACE me on fome bleak Northern thore,

Where the wild winds inceffint roar,
Thick clouds infeft the air, and fnow
Eternal veils the mountain's brow;
Thro' all the cheerlefs waste are feen
No fields array'd in living green,
Nor whispers thro' the quivering tress
The foftly breathing vernal breeze.
No fweetly varying seasons here
Measure the quick revolving year,
Sole monarch of the gloomy plain,
Winter afferts his lasting reign.

Still Delia's charms, my hope, my joy,
Shall my enraptur'd soul employ,
And the sweet memory of her love
Shall every painful thought remove.
Place me where Phoebus, fource of day,
Too fiercely pours his noontide ray,
And the cool ftream, thro' al' th: plain,
The thirsty Traveller feeks in vain.
No foft-wing'd airs diffuse their aid,
No tree extends a grateful fhade;
And not a plant or flower is found
To cheer the eye, or deck the ground;
Tho' countless woes unite t'opprefs,
Delia shall still my foul poffefs,
Whether with painful steps I go,
Thro' Afric's fands, or Greenland's fnow.

Fancy, thy foft delufive power
Shall Delia to my fight restore,
And bid my fainting heart rejoice
In Delia's fmiles, and Delia's voice.

W. S.

LINES BY SUSANNAH *,

TO A GENTLEMAN WHO ACCUSED HER OF DISCONTINUING HER PORTIC

LABOURS.

W

HY should I feek to tune my vocal reed, Since what infpir'd it once is known no more;

For ob, how diftant are the flocks that feed On 's plain, by Wivenhoe's peaceful fhore !

And wherefore fhould I feek in fong to please,
While Fancy to the past remains so true;

Unfelt are now the fweets of rural cafe,
For ah, I've bid my fav'rite scenes adieu !

How fhone the cafement thro' the opening glade,

How gleam'd the funbeams on the diftant fane !

And e'en when Winter ftripp'd the verdant fcene,

My fancy found a thousand charms remain ; Perchance fome cottage that in Spring unseen, Now rear'd its ruftic front beyond the plain.

Oft too when led by Health's enchanting hand,

Along the wild-heath's frozen path to stray, The Gilent beauties of the glittering land

Have warm'd my fancy, and inspir'd my lay.

And tho' to gayer pleasures not unknown, To scenes more brilliant has this bofom

beat;

Yet thefe lov'd fcenes around my heart have thrown

A joy that envied not the gay or great, But oh, 'tis paft! the tranfient feafon's o'er ! Adieu, ye hours of folitude and ease→→ 'Tis part-the lovely vision charms no more, And the fweet beams of Hope for ever

cease.

Nor deems the aught to pleafing as the

past;

And ever as the penfive moment flies, Reminds my heart of joys too fweet toʻlaft:

Thy dawn unfolds its crimson veft;
Soi's brigheft beams arife

To cheer this most aufpicious day,
With every heart-enliv'ning ray
That can illume the kies.

The

The tenants of the woods awake, Their carols echo from the brake,

And charm the groves around; Nature thro' all her works looks gay, Each object various charms difplay

O'er the enamell'd ground.
Strephon and Delia join their hands
In Love's most hallow'd facred bands,
And vow eternal truth:

Delia with unaffected mien
Delights and dignifies the fcene

With innocence and youth.
Strephon beholds his lovely bride,
Of all the Nymphs her fex's pride,
For virtue and for charms;
Her merits long he figh'd to claim,
And by the most endearing name

To take her to his arms.
Bleft be your days, deferving pair!
May Heaven reward your every care
With fmiling fweet content;
May you, when all your labours done,
Enjoy your evening's parting fun,

Confcious of life well spent.
May every comfort, every joy,
That can the thoughts of man employ,
Wait on your dying bed!

Then, tho' the body feel the blow,
The sting of Death you ne'er shall know,
Nor can your joys be dead.

No, they can beam but faintly here,
Imperfect copy what you'll share

In that great World of Light,
Where Sin and Sorrow's done away,
And God fhall pour refulgent day
For ever free from Night.

Worcester, Aug. 13.

from yon grove,

When the moon is half hid o'er the hill; When nothing is heard but the whispers of Love,

And the found of the far diftant rill; How fweet, with the friend of one's bofom to stray,

Midft fcenes fuch as thefe to commune; And quitting the glitter and buftle of day,

Mend the heart, and the paffions attune. May this oft be our lot, fo wifdom divine Shall lead us a flowery way;

So our morning of life shall brilliantly shine, And its evening be cloudless and gay !

W. H.

IF

EPITAPH

On the DEATH of
JOHN AYTON THOMPSON.

in the morn of Life each winning grace, [face The converfe fweet, the mind-illumin'd The lively wit, that charm'd with early

art,

And mild Affection ftreaming from the heart; If thefe, lov'd youth, could check the hand of fate,

Thy matchlefs worth had claim'd a longer date :

But thou art bleft! while here we heave

the figh,

Thy death is virtue wafted to the sky.
Yet fill thy image fond Affection keeps,
The Sire remembers, and the Mother

weeps;

Still the friend grieves who faw thy vernal bloom,

And here, fad task, inferibes it on thy tomb.

A. MURPHY.

chofen to conceal from the public."

FRANCE.

Paris, Oober 18.

THE Pruffians having evacuated Longwy,

and delivered up the town with the artillery and ftores to General Valence, who commands the French troops in that quarter, France is therefore entirely free from its invaders.

Letter from General Cuftine.
Edelsheim, 02. 16.

Citizen Prefident,

"1 Have just learned from one of my correfpondents, a man of profound addrefs and intrigue, that 19.000 Ruffians are upon the point of entering Germany, to fupport the Caufe of the Emigrants and Sovereigns. He ftates farther, that on the fuppofition of France being too powerful for her enemies, the Rumans are to be followed by a numerous army, for the purpofe of feizing Silefia, as an indemnification for the Emperor. Such are the vaft deigns of the romantic Northern Severeign.

"I have long known them: they tend all to humble the House of Brandenburgh. I difcovered this from Prince Potemkin and Jofeph 11. I acquainted the King of Pruffia

of it on his acceffion to the throne. He will remember, I doubt not, a converfation I had with him in the gallery of Charlottenburg, a few days after his coronation. But he has preferred the counfel of weak men to the meafures which at that time I proposed to him, and which my fon has repeated fince.

"Let the notoriety of this intelligence, which I know is certain, inform him of the fate which threatens him.

"Affure the Convention of my earnest defire to propagate the glory of the French

He protefted against the late decree for punishing the two battalions denounced by the Generals Chazot and Dumourier; and affirmed, that the proces-verbal of the MuInicipality of Rhetel, which had been taken away by the Minifter at War, would prove that the four prifoners maffacred by them, were not Pruffian Deferters, but French Emigrants, who were fpies, and who, perhaps, came in order to confpire with the Generals.

The proces-verbal of the Municipality of Rhetel was then read, by which it appeared,

that the four prisoners acknowledged, that they were Frenchmen; but that they burned with the most ardent patriotifm, and were come in order to affift their countrymen to defend the Republic.'

Marat now reafcended the tribunal, and obferved, that he did not mean to justify the two accufed battalions.

"Citizens, cried a Deputy, Marat tells you that he does not mean to justify the two accufed battalions; and yet, but yesterday he voted two civic crowns for them, in the fociety of the Jacobins."

The Convention, after teftifying their difapprobation of the conduct of a Member who is a difgrace to France, proceeded to the order of the day.

General Anfelme informed the Affembly, that the people of Nice demanded Commitioners from the Republic, in order that they might organize a Government fimilar to that of France.

Ост. 21. The Commiffioners to the United Armies, in a letter dated Vaudoncourt, informed the Convention, that just as they were leaving Verdun, the Procureur Syndic brought them a number of papers, left in the house of his fon, where Monfieur lodged. "In these papers," fay the Commiffioners, "you will find proofs of the plots formed against the State, and the names of the principal traitors. The packet containing this correspondence confifts of more than 300 letters, which we have numbered. We send you also a number of other letters, found on the Emigrants by one of our battalions of volunteers. We remark from them, that the Emigrants defpair of their caufe. They feem to be convinced that the whole earth affords no asylum for guilt, and are compelled to admit that they are univerfally execrated."

Of the armies the Commiffioners fay,"Our cannon are funk fo deep in the mud that they are almost covered, and in this dreadful country our foldiers are without clothes, without shoes, and yet are never heard to

than 200 horses, and the roads are covered with the miferable victims of the ambition of Kings. Many deferters come in to us; they begin to believe the decree which grants each of them a pention, and that it will be executed."

Letter from General Cuftine to General Biron.

"I Am going to fet out immediately at the head of the whole army, to proceed against Mentz. It is now eight in the evening. I fhall march the whole night. The multiplicity of my occupations prevents my giving you farther details."

OCT. 26. Last night a courier arrived from the army of the Rhine; and this morning a letter from General Cuftine was read in the Convention, announcing that he had taken poffeffion of Mentz on the 21ft inft. His army confifted of 22,000 men, and the garrifon, compofed, according to fome accounts, of 600c, furrendered prifoners of war, with. out firing a fhot; they rather received the French as friends and deliverers.-The artillery fired a royal falute of welcome. Cuftine found in the place 100 pieces of cannon, with large magazines of ftores and provisions. His letter marks the lively acclamations and the cordial testimonies of friendship with which he was received by all ranks of people remaining in the city.

Tuesday morning at nine o'clock, nine of the Emigrants, lately brought up to Paris, were executed in the Place de Greve. They all met death with decent courage. Two of the unfortunate Gentlemen were brothers; they embraced one another on the fcaffold, and fhed a parting tear.

Ост. 28. The vigour of M. Cuftine's operations is univerfally applauded. He marched fixty-fix miles in two days, and immediately afterwards was upon the point of taking Mentz by storm, if its garrison, confifting of 6,000 men, had not surrendered. The French give fecurity for the fafety of perfons and property to all the inhabitants, who, it is well known, are fufficiently pleased with their vifit, and would not permit the Commander to prolong his resistance. The Elector, who is also Archbishop, had fied fome time before.

Advice is received, that General Custine had taken the town of Frankfort on the Maine, and had laid the Magistrates under the contribution of two millions of florins (90,000l. fterling). This fine is imposed for their conduct in favour of the Emigrants.

In the fitting of the National Convention yesterday, after a Decree had paffed against a ci-devant Count, a Member represented that it was improper to punish such persons and leave the King unnoticed. He moved Dddz that