Does not the cheek that vaunts the ro- "Behold the angry waves confpire To check the barb'rous toil! While wounded nature's vengeful ire Roars round our trembling ifle! Methinks her voice re-echoes in the . wind, Etrample an bis kind.” "Man was not form'd by Heav'n to The lab'ring fhip was now a wreck, Now on the yielding fand she roam'd, Around th' exhausted crew. 'Till, from the forecastle, her William's [buffeted the ftorm. Sprang 'midft the yawning waves, and form Long on the fwelling furge fuflain'd, Brave William fought the fhore; Watch'd the white cliffs-but ne'er complain'd, Then funk-to gaze no more! Poor Nancy faw him buried by the [in a watery grave! wave, And, with her heart's true love, plung'd To DELLA CRUSCA, On reading" The SL AVES, an Elegy," written by bim in the year 1788. THOU foul-enchanting bard, who breath'dft thy ftrains, [bier, Erewhile, to decorate the mournful Where lay the fable fons of Afric's plains, [ing tear; And to their mis'ries drop'dit the pity Then bade them hope their days of woe were o'er, {learn'd to feel, That Britain's fons at length had Had taught their fotten'd bofoms to deplore [wrongs to heal! The wrongs they felt, or trive thefe The VANITY of LIFE. On ISAIAH Ixiv. 6.-We all do fade as à leaf. By the late Bishop HORNE. SEE the leaves around us falling, Dry and wither'd, to the ground; Thus to thoughtlefs mortals calling, With a fad and folemn found : "Sons of Adam once in Eden, Blighted when, like us, you fell; Hear the lecture we are reading: 'Tis alas! the truth we tell. "Virgins, much, too much prefum. ing On your boafted white and red, View us, late in beauty blooming, Number'd now among the dead. "Griping mifers, nightly waking, See the end of all your care; Fled on wings of our own making, We have left our owners hare. "Sons of honour, fed on praises, Fluttering high on fancy'd worth, Lo! the fickle air that raises, Brings us down to parent earth. "Learned fophs, in fyftems jaded, Who for new ones daily call, Ceafe, at length by us perfuaded, Ev'ry leaf muft have a fall. "Youths, tho' yet no loffes grieve you, Gay in health and manly grace; Let not clouded fkies deceive you, Summer gives to autumn place. "Venerable fires, grown hoary, Hither turn th' unwilling eye; Think amidst your falling glory, Autumn tells a winter nigh. "Yearly in our course returning, Messengers of shortest stay, Thus we preach this truth unerring, "Heaven and earth shall pass away." "On the tree of life eternal, Man, let all thy hopes be staid ; Which alone, for ever vernal, Bears a leaf that ne'ef fhall fade." FOREIGN FOREIGN NEW S. Naples, February 4. IN Naples, plots and confpiracies are faid to exift for the deftruction of the court. The government, who view with alarm the diffufion of liberty, and the deep root it has taken in the minds of the people, have reforted to measures of coercion, fo rigorous in their nature, that even the provinces participate in thofe agitations that have fo often convulfed the capital. A confpiracy at Abruzza, when being on the point of bursting into rebellion, was lately discovered by an accomplice. On his information the minifter ordered troops to attack the village, and put the inhabitants to the fword. On the approach of the military, however, the people abandoned their houses, and fled with arms in their hands to the fields and woods, where they defended themfelves against the fatellites who were fent in pursuit of them. This event has increafed the fufpicions of government, and several thoufands of individuals have been configned to dungeons to languish with other victims, who seemed to feel the allure ments of liberty. Neither age, nor rank, nor condition, can allay the anxiety and confternation of govern. ment. Lifbon, Feb. 6. On the 7th ult. we felt a fhock of an earthquake: it began about ten minutes after five in the morning, and is faid to have laftéd about 70 feconds. According to advices from Spain, &c. it was general. By the violence of the fhaking backward and forward in my bed, I was awoke, and by the cries of the people who were in the houfe with me. The inhabitants affirm it to be the most fevere felt here for many years; they alfo fled from their houfes to the fquares, &c. where they conceived themselves to be moft fecure: our bells of the houfe rung, and fuch an unpleafant clamour and confulon enfued for fome minutes VOL. XXVII. after, as I never heard before, but am happy to fay no damage was done by it in this capital, as I have yet heard of. On the 23d we felt another fhock, about the fame time in the morning as the 17th; it did not continue fo long, but fully equalled it in feverity; the inhabitants again left their houfes, and were much more alarmed than at the firft, having an idea that they were the fore-runners of a fimilar affair to that of 1755. It appears that fome of the nobility and gentry, who poffefs quintas, or country houfes, left their town refidence on account of thefe earthquakes, which I affure you were dreadful, hearing the different fixtures fall againft each other, and expecting every inftant to be fmothered in the ruins. Conflantinople, Feb. 9. A fquadron of fix or eight fail is ready to fail to bring home the Afiatic tributes, and protect the Turkish merchantmen from any accidents in confequence of the appearance of English and French fquadrons in the Archipelago. All the palaces of the foreign minifters, the houses of the principal Franks, &c. ftill remain fhut in confequence of the plague, the fymptoms of which ftill appear; between twenty and thirty bodies have been carried through Pera and the port of Adrianople, in the courfe of feveral days. French officers, engineers, &c. arrive, here almost every day. Feb. 12. The works in the arfenals and other military departments have recommenced with the greatest activity. Miniflers flatter themfelves that they will have 20 fail of the line and frigates nearly ready for fea by April. Some fay this force is to cruife in the Archipélago; others, that its deftination is of more importance, viz. to feek out and combat the Ruflian fleet. In the mean while orders have been fent to all the ports, to collect all the workmen that can be found, and to halten the con.ftruction Bb fruction of a number of veffels to be, finished in the courfe of the year. The fultan has alfo ordered the pachas of Afia and Europe to affemble their refpective troops, to be in readiness to march at the fhorteft notice. Several movements are remarked in the magazines and laboratories, and the French, above any other ftrangers, are busy in circulating the report of an approaching rupture. The fortrefs of Widdin, with fome others, is in the hands of the rebels. The rebellious pacha at that place, it is fuppofed, will be attacked before he has completed the fortifications with which he is now cccupied. The Porte, knowing he has received a great quantity of provifions from Wallachia, feem difpofed to impute the circumftance to Morufi, the prefent hofpodar, as a crime; and his depofition is already announced as certain. Several perfons are nominated to fucceed him. The Turkish ministry having felected from the numerous frangers, French, English, Poles, and Swedes, that came to offer themselves, a certain number of officers, have difcharged the reft; which has caufed frequent arrivals of merchant vessels from Marfeilles with valuable articles are a clear demonftration of the activity of commerce and manufactures on the part of France. Petersburg, Feb. 20. Ruffia has taken the alarm at the preparations carried on by the Turks, and is taking every precaution to guard against a sudden declaration of war; especially as the am. baffador has not been able to obtain a decifive answer from the Reis Effendi refpecting the armaments. The emprefs has given ftrict, orders for augmenting the number of troops in Volhinia, Podolia, and the Ukraine, where large magazines are forming for the Ruffian armies. A large body of troops have been fent to reinforce the garrifon of Ockzakow, and all the Ruffian fortreffes upon the Turkish frontiers are put in a respectable state of defence. Spire, Feb. 26. Within these few days a French general has entered into a friendly conversation at the advanced pofts, with an officer of the Auftrian huffars. The following are a few of the obfervations he made to him: bitter complaints again the miniftry," Should a new campaign take place, I, efpecially from the Polifh and French emigrants, who are totally deprived of the means of fubfiftence. Leghorn, Feb. 16. France, Spain, and Genoa, being well-flocked with corn from this port, the price has confiderably fallen. Great quantities have been exported from Naples. Peterburgh, Feb. 18. Nothing more decifive can be faid refpecting the rupture apprehended between the Ruffians and Turks, than the certainty of the fact, that this court is waiting for the uiterior declaration of the Forte, in anfwer to the laft representation on the part of the empreis. Leghorn, Feb. 20. This morning admiral Jervis put to fea with ten fail of the line, including the Tancredi and feveral frigates: their deftination remains' a fecret. We have at the fame time intelligence that the Toulon fleet had failed. The importation of a prodigicus quantity of grain into the ports of France, clpecially from Barbary and the Levant, has not only rellored plenty, but confiderably lowered, the price of that article. An Algerine frigate has taken two large Neapolitan veels, eff Co.fica, scaded with grain. The am certain that we fhall not be very fuccefsful. Our troops are in general wearied with the war; an univerfal difcontent prevails among them; the national reprefentatives keeping them from one month to another in the vain expectation of receiving their pay in fpecie. The feafon for this measure has juft been delayed to the firft of the enfuing month. If at that time they fhould again fail in their promife, the difcontent will be ftill augmented, more efpecially as there is no longer any dif cipline, infomuch that the officer who attempts to maintain any, runs the rife of his life. The French troops are, befides, abfolutely in want of every thing, and there is great defertion in the ca valry." Paris, March 1. The garden of the Thuilleries, once planted with potatoes, when the wants of the people required this facrifice, offers now a beautiful and correct map of the 83 departments of France. It comprites too Jemappe, Savoy, and the other departments which have been conquered and united to the republic. This idea, which is moft artfully conceived to flatter the vanity of the Panfians, Parifians, is as beautifully executed. | fent quarters, and march to other places; and feveral corps, which had their winter quarters in Luxemburg and the environs of Mentz, have advanced nearer to the Mozelle. Each path marks the boundary of a department. Every mountain is reprefented by an hillock; every foreft by a thicket; and every river has its correfponding ftreamlet ! Vienna, March 4. The command of the army of Italy is given to baron Beaulieu. Rhine as principal adminiftrator; and foon afterwards to Bafle as negotiator. Perhaps this is the real place of his deftination. Thus every Parifian in his morning's walk can now review the whole of the republic, and of her conquefts. The minifter of ftate, count LehrManheim, March 2. The young re-bach, is going to the armies on the quifition men who pass through this town in parties of 30 or 40, on their road to the army of the Rhine, are guarded by detachments of Gens d'armes from one brigade to another. Thefe unhappy youths are in the moft dreadful ftate, and openly declare their repugnance to bear arms. In confequence of the complaints preferred by the central adminiftration of the department of the two Neithes, at Antwerp, who ftate, that, notwithflanding the measures which they have taken in concert with rear-admiral Van Stabel, the free navigation of the Scheldt is fill impeded by the admiralty of Zealand, the executive directory have ordered citizen Noel, minifter plenipotentiary of the French republic at the Hague, to addrefs a note on this fubject to the flates-general of the United Provinces, in order that they may give the neceflary inftructions to the different perfons in power, to put a flop to the violations of the treaty of peace and alliance concluded between the two republics, Frankfort, March 5. The operation treafury of the empire of this town contained laft month the fum of 162,200 florins; but contracts were concluded to ten times that amount. The principal fum is paid out of the treafury, and the reft remains in ar rears. It is generally believed, that notwithftanding the active preparations continued inceffantly on the part of the belligerent powers, their cabinets are very much employed in establishing a negotiation for peace. It is alfo afferted, that the northern part of Germany, by the patriotic mediation of his Pruffian majesly, will in future, during the continuance of the war, enjoy the bleffings of neutrality. The fortress of Koenigiten, in the electorate of Mentz, is rendered ftronger every day, and will have a garrifon of imperial troops. The electoral palace of Schwetzingen is getting ready for the reception of archduke Charles. His fuite and equipage confit of 62 perfons and 100 horfes. Active movements are obferved among the German troops in the neighbourhood of Kule, and orders have been given to them to hold themselves in readiness to march. A great number of young men, of the first requifition, who had plates in the different public offices, were feized on the 19th inft. by order of the commanding officer, and confined in a prifon where they are to remain until they are fent off under the efcort of national gendarmerie, to join the armies on the Rhine. If we may Ratisbon, March 6. The imperial be allowed to judge by appearances, decree of ratification of the empire, rethe return of general Jourdan to the fpecting the Roman months, concludes head-quarters at Bonn is the time with thef words; "His imperial mafixed for putting an end to the armi-jelty, as well in his own name as in that ftice. That general, it is faid, will of the country, expects from the elec bring with him a new plan of operators, princes, and itates, the most enertions for the enfuing campaign. Duffeldorff, March 4 Since Jour-felves with German firmness and coudan's return from Paris, the preparatons for war on the fide of the French increase every day. Several bodies of troops on the other bank of the Rhine have received orders to quit their pre getic efforts; that they will arm them rage, in order to arrive, under the protection of providence, at a juft and acceptable peace, which can only be delayed by the ambitious plans of conqueft of the enemy." Bb 2 Since ་ |