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Meridian Loveliness, majestic grace, Stream o'er her form, and lighten in her face; fluence darf While tenfe and virtue's blended inThe look, the voice, refiit!efs to the heart.

Not only, Wrexham, do thy circ'ling groves [loves, Boalt the fair vistes, and the radiant There Hayman's fong, with its enchanting powers, Floars through thy vales, thy manfions, and thy bowers;

Her hallow'd temple there religion shows, That erit with beauteous majefly arose In ancient days, when Gothica tdiplay'd Her fanes, in airy elegance array d, Whofe na nelefs charms the Dorian Claims efface,

Cori thian fplendor, and Ionic grace; Then plied, with curious fkill, now rare[lone. ly fhown, Th' adorning chiffel, o'er the yielding But as thofe graces which alone delight With their fine torms the captivated fight, Muft not alpire to emulate the art That, while it charms the eye, pervades

the heat,

See, Gothic elegance the palm refigns, When art in intellectual greatnefs fhines. Bright as in Albion's long-diitinguith'd fanes, [reigns. Within thele holy walls, the lives, the Her faisted maid, amid the buriting [gloom,

tomb, Hears the last trumpet thrill its murky

* Mrs. Fletcher of GwernheyledGwernbeyled meaus Sunny Alders.

The two mis Apperlys.

Mrs. Parry Price, late of that neighbourhood.

The lady of fir Fofter Cunliffe, baronet.
Watkin Hayman, efq.
Wedminter.

**Sainted Maid. Mrs. Mary Middle

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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 shrine 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

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Some bufy dame, for cakes and cuftards Who gave him credit when his pence [toil,

were gone;

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 faithless wife,

His fortune wafted, or his wishes 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 secure 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

Who in the hay-time met the lufty

throng,

[long, And with her fhare of labour join'd her To the faint reapers bore the humming ale,

Or jok'd the thrasher leaning on his flail; By vain ambition led at length to town, In queft of fortune, and fuppos'd re [rake,

nown,

If there, the victim of some worthless She chance its fickly pleasures to partake, Mix'd with the pamper'd crowds whofe looks disclaim [fhame;

The fmile of virtue and the blush of Will the not oft regret the chearful day, When sport 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 [fore,

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QUEE

UEEN of the foft enchanting smile! Ever blooming, young, and gay, We, fubjects of thy fav'rite ifle, To thee the grateful tribute pay. Sovereign of the human breaft!

Tamer of wild paffion's rage! Thou lull'ft the troubled foul to reft, And ev'ry difcord canft afsuage. 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, ceafeless ftrife,
Would await the smiling year.
In vain would spring her beauties spread

Without thee, thofe joys are dead,—
O'er the mead, and glad the air:
Light of pleasure! heavenly fair!
Lambeth.

J. A.

FOREIGN

FOREIGN NEW S.

Frankfort, July 19.

AFTER the archduke Charles had

flexible; but general Jourdan, on the contrary, received the deputies with great politenefs, and teftified his regret quitted the Lower Rhine, to pro-at being forced to have recourse to fuch ceed to the army of the Upper Rhine, difafirous measures. The capitulation after the abandonment of the pofition did not take place; and the alarm of of Friedberg, general Wartenfleben re- the inhabitants became only deeper and ceived orders to occupy the poft of Ber-more juftly founded. The commandgen, and to maintain himself in it till the ant refolved to defend the city to the main body of the army had entirely laft extremity, and prepared fire-engines paffed the Mein; but, fearing that he in all parts. fhould be turned by the French, who might proceed from Friedberg to Hanau, Wartenfleben thought proper not to obey the order, and retired alfo beyond the Mein towards Neuisenbourg, after having thrown 4000 men into Frankfort, whofe 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 Echefheim and All Saints. A shower of balls destroyed the buildings that were in the direction of the batteries, and the flames burft forth in several 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 fe- environs, with 120 men without arms, cond fummons followed the first:-a in order to affift in extinguifhing the fire; fimilar refusal on the part of the com- but they were not fuffered to enter the mandant. city.

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.

At length general Wartenfleben fuffered himself 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 streets, 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 impofed on this city a con fcene. 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; ftrates 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 spare the paid by the 27th inft. and the last third city. General Wartensleben was in- by the fixth of Auguft; under pain of VOL. XXVII. 3 C

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on the 16th of July, and occupied all the important pofts which the enemy 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 magazines. The fame day he occupied Seckingen and Lauffenbourg. On the 18th he pursued the enemy, and drove. their rear guard from Waldshut. The Auftrians retreated, without ftriking a blow, towards Conftance.

Vienna, July 21. This day, the peo

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,ing, "Peace! peace!" It became neceffary to call in the aid of the military. to difperfe the crowd. Beingfang, Head-quarters of General

to our unhappy city, a day of horror and defolation. Every honeft citizen expected that his last hour was arrived. In a few words, the following affairs occurred:

The hangmen, affaffins, &c. all pro fiting of the amnelly, auned, 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. .

different parts of the city, repaired to the hotel of the baron de Thugut, cry

Jourdan, 5 Thermidor (July 22.)

The army has, this day, taken its po fition on the Werem, to the right of Cariftadt, 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 occupies, 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 against Wurtzbourg,

Frankfort, Offenback, and Afchaffenhourgh, we found abundantly fup

In the afternoon thefe infamous wretches, marching always in bands,plied with magazines. Refpecting the and vociferating against every thing good, paffed a door where fat an old man, aged 74 years, whom they alfo affaffinated. As I hear, his name was Fabrice, a painter by profeffion. In the fuburbs, the fame horrors have been committed. At Mazargues alone, 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,

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 fubfequently 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

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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, confifiing of 600 men, prifoners of war, are releafed upon their parole, not to ferve for a year against 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 obliged us to make long detours by almoft impassable 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 ammunition.

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Hanau, July 26. Every thing is prepared at Wilhelmftadt for the reception of his Pruffian 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 majefty is expected this day from Pyrmont in Caffel.

Bruffels, July 26. The fiege of the fort of Ehrenbreititein 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 houfes within have been reduced to afhes.

Nevertheless the enemy has returned this firing with fuch activity, that the befieged luffer 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 Ehrenbreitftein, 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 Bliefcafile and Momplegard, and thofe of the emigrat ed baron Baude.

The French national inftitution of arts and fciences having fent a deputa│tion 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 greateft pleasure, to a fociety of fo laudable a defcription, requesting their acceptance of one written by Diderot, in its room.

31. It is not only at Marseilles that jacobinifin has fignalifed its fury; the town of Aix has alfo been a prey to it. The ommiffary of the directory feil 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.

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General Buonaparte has fent to the directory 100 fine black hories. They arrived yesterday morning in Paris.

A decree of the directory, dated 12 Thermidor, ordains that the departments of the well, beretofore over-run by the Chouans, fhall be no longer confidered as in a ftate of fiege, but fhall participate in all the advantages of the new conflitution.

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