Meridian lovelinefs, majestic grace, Stream o'er her form, and lighten in her face; fluence darf While tenfe and virtue's blended in. The look, the voice, refiftless to the heart. Not only, Wrexham, do thy circ'ling groves [loves, Boaft the fair virtues, and the ra iant There Hayman's fong, with its en chating powers, Floare through thy vales, thy manfions, and thy bowers; Her hallow'd temple there religion shows, That erit with beauteous majefly arofe In ancient days, when Gothica tailplay'd Her fanes, in airy elegance array d, Whofe na elets charms the Dorian claims efface, And, left the fum by using should decay, Committed earth to earth, and clay to clay. His wealth thus bury'd in a fecret hole, And, with his bags, his very heart and foul, To their dear tomb he daily vifits made, And at that fhrine his whole devotion paid. A needy fellow, who obferv'd his walk, And guefs'd the ghoft did near fome treasure ftalk, Came to the place; and, when he try'd the ground, The rich depofitum, rejoicing, found: He blefs'd his fortune, and his booty bore, To fpend it fafely on a foreign fhore.. The owner foon return'd to watch his EXTRACT FROM "THE PAINS OF MEMORY;" A Poem. By Mr. MERRY. DOWN in yon glade, befide that glaffy pool, [village school; There fands, and long has ftood, the Hark! the gay murm'rings of the fportive train, [the plain; Freed from reftraint, that gambol o'er Lift their fhrill voices, and their bursts of glee! Will future years recal their ecftafy? Perchance, fome one, hereafter, of the band, [land, From the brown fummit of that jutting Shall eye the well-known fpot, the selffame scene, [between; And the thin fpire that peeps those groves Shall mark the peafant plodding as before, And the trim houfe wife at the cottage. door; wind; were gone; Shall hear the paufing bell's pathetic toll, Borne on the gale, announce the parting foul [hood kind, Of fome old friend, who, to his childPrepar'd the kite, and stream'd it to the [known, Some bufy dame, for cakes and cuftards Who gave him credit when his pence [toil, Some truant ploughboy, who, neglecting Join'd him to feize the tempting orchard's spoil; Or, in defpite of peril, fpread the fnare, As through the thicket pafs'd the nightly hare; [life, Then fhall he think on all the woes of His thanklefs children, or his faithlefs wife, His fortune wafted, or his wifhes croft, His tender brother, fifter, parents, loft, Till, every object finking into fhade, He figh, and call oblivion to his aid. The buxom lafs, who late fecure from harm, [the farm; With gay importance buftled through Tended her dairy at the break of dawn, Or fed her circling poultry on the lawn; O'er the wafh'd floor the cleanly fand let fall, [the wall; And brush'd th' unfeemly cobweb from nown, Or jok'd the thrasher leaning on his flail; By vain ambition led at length to town, In queft of fortune, and suppos'd re [rake, If there, the victim of fome worthless She chance its fickly pleasures to partake, Mix'd with the pamper'd crowds whofe looks difclaim [fhame; The smile of virtue and the bluth of Will the not oft regret the chearful day, When fport and freedom hail'd th' ap proach of May, And many a rural pair beguil'd the hour, With ev'ning dance beneath the moon. light bow'r? [rove Or to her fad fate left, condemn'd to The lawless paths of defultory love, Will not her tortur'd bofom throb the ODE TO VENUS. QUEEN of the foft enchanting smile! Ever blooming, young, and gay, We, fubjects of thy fav'rite isle, To thee the grateful tribute pay. Sovereign of the human breast! Tamer of wild paffion's rage! Thou lull'it the troubled foul to reft, And ev'ry difcord canft affuage. As, after winter's ftorms, the spring Blithfome comes, to deck the year,➡ So doft thou to mortals bring Thy lightfome joys, to banish care. Without thee, this mottled life Would be all a defert drear:Ceafelefs tumult, ceafelefs ftrife, Would await the fmiling year. In vain would fpring her beauties spread O'er the mead, and glad the air: Without thee, thofe joys are dead,Light of pleasure! heavenly fair! Lambeth. J. A. FOREIGN FOREIGN NEW S. Frankfort, July 19. flexible; but general Jourdan, on the contrary, received the deputies with great politeness, and teftified his regret at being forced to have recourse to such difaftrous meafures. The capitulation did not take place; and the alarm of the inhabitants became only deeper and ant refolved to defend the city to the laft extremity, and prepared fire-engines in all parts. AFTER the archduke Charles had quitted the Lower Rhine, to proceed to the army of the Upper Rhine, after the abandonment of the pofition of Friedberg, general Wartenfleben received orders to occupy the poft of Ber-more juflly founded. The commandgen, and to maintain himself in it till the main body of the army had entirely paffed the Mein; but, fearing that he should be turned by the French, who might proceed from Friedberg to Hanau, Wartenfleben thought proper not to obey the order, and retired also beyond the Mein towards Neuifenbourg, after having thrown 4000 men into Frankfort, whole defence of it might protect his retreat. The next day, at eleven at night, the French recommenced the bombardment from three batteries, which they had between the gate of Echesheim and All Saints. A fhower of balls deftroyed the buildings that were in the direction of the batteries, and the flames burft forth in feveral parts. We should have been On the 12th, at five in the evening, buried under the ruins of the buildings, the troops fhowed themselves near the if humanity had not induced the French city. The batteries of the ramparts themselves to fufpend the bombardment. fired a few fhots, to which the befiegers The French general Kleber carried even replied from their howitzers. A fhort his generofity fo far, as to fend three time afterwards the city was fummon-fire-engines which he had taken in the ed: the commandant refufed. A fecond fummons followed the first :fimilar refusal on the part of the commandant. The bombardment commenced at two o'clock in the afternoon: feveral parts of the city were fet fire to, and many of the inhabitants were killed in their beds. environs, with 120 men without arms, in order to aflift in extinguifhing the fire; but they were not fuffered to enter the city. At length general Wartenfleben fuffered himmelf to be prevailed upon, and afked leave to furrender; and the next day, the 14th, the capitulation was figned at Bornheim, by general Brady and general Kleber. The alarm depicted on the countenances of the citizens wandering through A public notice has been given to the the ftreets, and the difpofitions of de-citizens here, that the French general in fence which the Auftrians continued to chief of the army of the Sambre and make, formed a ftriking and terrible Meufe has imposed on this city a confcene. At three o'clock the firing ceaftribution of fix millions of livres in ed, and one deputation of the magi- ready money, and two millions in kind; firates went to general Wartenfleben, to be paid at three payments; the first while another deputation proceeded to payment of one third to be made withgeneral Jourdan; the former was folicited in three days; the fecond third to be to capitulate, and the latter to fpare the paid by the 27th inft. and the laft third city. General Wartenfleben was in- by the fixth of Auguft; under pain of VOL. XXVII. 3 C in increase of the fum, and military exe cution. It was fortunate, that, during the bombardment of this city, the wind was calm, otherwife the whole city would have been deftroyed. This morning at two o'clock, we heard an extremely heavy cannonade, which continued till feven, and was di on the 16th of July, and occupied all the important pofts which the enciny had abandoned. They were well received at Haltingen, Wiel. Larrach, and other places in the Margraviate of Baden. The general pushed his advanced guard farther. On the 7th of July he arrived at Rheinfelden, where were confiderable rected against the fortrefs of Kaning-magazines. The fame day he occupied ftein, into which 600 Auftrians have thrown themfelves. Seckingen and Lauffenbourg. On the 18th he purfued the enemy, and drove. their rear guard from Waldshut. The Auftrians retreated, without ftriking a blow, towards Conftance. Mentz is now formally blockaded on all fides, and we no longer receive any intelligence from that city. It is faid the Auftrians have withdrawn the greater part of their troops from the garri-ple of this capital having affembled in fon, and fupplied their place with troops of the empire. Marfeilles, July 20. Yeflerday was, to our unhappy city, a day of horror and defolation. Every honeft citizen expected that his laft hour was arrived. `In a few words, the following affairs occurred: The hangmen, affaffins, &c. all profiting of the amnesty, armed, like the robbers they are, in bands, went into all the fections, where they cut down all who did not fly. They affaffinated eight or nine citizens, and mortally wounded about thirty. In the number of the murdered is the unhappy fon of Bourguignon, whofe father and brother were guillotined. Savon is reported to have affaffinated him, by ftabbing him in the back, as he went out of his fection, No. I. . In the afternoon thefe infamous wretches, marching always in bands, and vociferating against every thing good, paffed a door where fat an old man, aged 74 years, whom they alfo affaflinated. As I hear, his name was Fabrice, a painter by profeffion. In the fuburbs, the fame hortors have been committed. At Mazargues along, two citizens were killed and eight or ten wounded, Bafle, July 21. After the defeat of the Auftrian army under the command of generals Trobach and Klengling, and of the corps of emigrants, general Wolffe, who had fixed his head-quarters at Larrach, though fit to retreat in the greatest hage, in order to avoid being between two fires. Our troops, commanded by general Deborde, paff ed the Rhine at Huningyen and Kembs, Vienna, July 21. This day, the peo different parts of the city, repaired to the hotel of the baron de Thugut, crying, "Peace! peace!" It became necellary to call in the aid of the military. to difperfe the crowd. Being faug, Head-quarters of General Jourdan, 5 Thermidor (July, 22.). The army has, this day, taken its po fition on the Werem, to the right of Carlstadt, and to the left of Schwenfort, both fituated on the Mein. We yefterday took poffeffion of this laft place, after having driven away the enemy. General Bernadotte occopies, in detached parties, all the country fituated on the right bank of the Mein, as far as Mitelbourg, and fecures our communication with Frankfort. This body will join the army the moment of our marching againft Wurtzbourg. Frankfort, Offenback, and Afchaffenbourgh, we found abundantly fupplied with magazines. Refpecting the amunition and artillery found in Frankfort,-there were about one hundred and fixty mortar-pieces, chiefly brafs, and about fifteen hundred thousand mufquetcartridges of our own bore. At Zemmenden, twelve boats were intercepted, laden with bombs. Between fifteen hundred and two thousand deferters have come over to us fince we paffed the Lahn. No action has taken place subfequently to the capture of Frankfort. The light troops of the enemy have always, after the exchange of a few piftol fhots, retreated at our approach. Paris, July 22. From Switzerland we learn, by advices dated the 9th of July, that the princes of the empire have demanded a peace of Barthelemi, as thofe of Italy did of Buonaparte. A depu deputation from the city of Stutgard is arrived there, headed by the duke of Wirtemburg's minifter. Head-quarters at Frankfort, 4th Thermidor (July 22.) The fort of Koenigftein, which kept the Pruffian troops before it for four months when we occupied it in 1793, has capitulated. The garrifon, confifting of 600 men, prifoners of war, are released upon their parole, not to ferve for a year againft us or our allies. We found in the fort twenty pieces of cannon, three mortars, artillery, ftores and provifions for fix months. This fort, fituated at the entrance of a defile of the mountains of Weteravia, rendered our communications very difficult, and ob liged us to make long detours by almost impaffable roads; its poffeffion is very important to us. Army of the Sambre, Schwenfort, 8 Thermidor (July 25.) This morning the troops in the fer vice of the republic took poffeffion of the city and citadel of Wurtzbourg. The garrifon confifted of the militia of the country. We found here confiderable magazines, about two hundred pieces of cannon, and a great quantity of ammu nition. Hanau, July 26. Every thing is prepared at Wilhelmftadt for the reception of his Prufiian majefty, where a congrefs will be held of the princes of the circles of the Rhine, Franconia, and other flates; and negotiations for peace fet on foot under the mediation of his Pruffian majefty. All foreigners and fugitives are therefore ordered to leave the town within three days. His Pruffan majefly is expected this day from Pyrmont in Caffel. Bruffels, July 26. The fiege of the fort of Ehrenbreittlein has commenced with the greateft vigour. The bombardment of Thal, in front of this place, has been carried on with fuch violence, that the greatest part of the magazines and houses within have been reduced to ⚫ afhes. Nevertheless the enemy has returned this ring with fuch activity, that the befieged fuffer very confiderably. Seven batteries are directed against Ehrenbreitflein; thefe batteries are compofed of fixty pieces of cannon, which fire without interruption; befides this, an enormous quantity of mortars of a large calibre are employed night and day to bombard this rock, one of the strongest places in Europe. As there have been placed fome batteries on the left bank of the Rhine to attack Ehrenbreitstein, and as the hefieged direct their fire particularly on this point, the inhabitants of Coblentz dread a renewal of thofe horrid fcenes which took place laft year. In confequence of this, an arrangement has taken place between the French and Auftrian generals, by which it is agreed to ceale all firing on this town. Paris, July 27. The directory are taking fuch meatures in the conquered provinces of Germany, as by no means indicate that intention of giving them up upon the conclufion of the peace; among thefe is the farming of the faltworks, in the counties of Bliefcattle and Momplegard, and thofe of the emigrated baron Baude. The French national inflitution of arts and fciences having fent a deputation to prince Henry of Pruffia, to request a manufcript of Greffet's, fuppofed to have been in his poffeffion,-the prince's anfwer affured them that if it had been in his collection, he would have parted with it, with the greatest pleasure, to a fociety of fo laudable a defcription, requefting their acceptance of one written by Diderot, in its room. 31. It is not only at Marfeiiles that jacobinifin has fignalifed its fury; the town of Aix has also been a prey to it. Thorommillary of the directory fell the firfl victim. Aug. 3. Our armies continue to march into the heart of Germany, and terror is in their van. They are fait approaching to Vienna. Orders have been given to fortify that capital. We fhall foon be there, to ask the emperor whether he will confent to ask for peace. General Buonaparte has fent to the directory 100 fine black hores. They arrived yesterday morning in Paris. A decree of the directory, dated ra Thermidor, ordains that the depart-" ments of the weft, heretofore over-run by the Chouans, shall be no longer ronfidered as in a fate of fiege, but fball participate in all the advantages of the new conflitution. |