As thus he felt his falt'ring limbs Rufh'd forth, and flaid his fleeting And how'd to his imperfect fight The harmlefs caufe of all his woe,➡ His little lambkin, cold and stiff! Stretch'don its bed of glift'ning fnow! His heart's best chord was yet in tune, Unfnapp'd by cold feverity; Touch'd was that chord―his dim eye beam'd, Suffus'd with fenfibility. 'Tis juft, (he faid) that where thou lieft, The careless fhepherd boy fhould lie ; Thou died'ft, poor fool! for want of food! I fall, for fuffering thee to die. "But oh, my mafler!-(broken-shortWas every half-word now he spoke) – Severe has been thy conftant will, And galling fure thy heavy yoke. "But yet in all my beft,' have I Without a 'plaint my hardfhips bore; Rufus!-may all thy pangs be paft Mafter!-my fufferings are no more! "A warmer couch halt thou to prefs, Secure from cramping frolts thy fest; And could't thou beaft fo free a breast, Thou yet might'ft die a death as fweet. "My trusty dog-that wiftful look Is all that makes my poor heart heave; But hie thee home,-proclaim me dead, Forget to think-and cease to grieve." So faying, fhrunk the hapless youth, Beneath the chilling grafp of death; And, clafping poor Tray's fhaggy neck, Sigh'd gently forth his parting breath! His faithful, fond, fagacious dog Hung watchful o'er his master's clay; And many a moan the old fool made, And many a thing he ftrove to fay. He paw'd him with his hard-worn foot; He lick'd him with his fearce warm tongue; His cold nofe ftrove to catch his breath, As to his clos'd lips clofe it clung. But not a fign of lurking life Thro' all his frame he found to creep; He knew not, what it was to die, But knew his master did not fleep. For ftill had he his flumbers watch'd, Thro' many a long and difmal night; And rous'd him from his pallet hard, To meet his toil ere morning light. And well his brain remember'd yet, He never patter'd tow'rds his bed, Or lodg'd his long face on his cheek, But ftraight he stirr'd, or rais`d his head. Yes, he remember'd, and with tears, His loving mafter's kind replies, When dumbly he contriv'd to fay, "The cock has crow'd! my master, rife!" But now the paw, the scratch, the whine, To howlings chang'd, alone can tell The fufferings of initinctive love, When fruitless prov'd its fimple fpell. Great grief affail'd his untaught heart, And quickly laid its victim low! His matter's cheek, his pillow cold,Their common bed, the colder fnow! But, if thou com'ft a Sibyl's leaf. An end like thine at length fhall have; And lie there-till we both fhall ceafe To feek in vain for nature's reft. THE BOUQUET. Addreffed to Mifs S. B. HOW oft my wand'ring eyes have ftray'd, [field, With rapt'rous pleasure o'er each In Flora's lovely drefs array'd! What fragrance and delight they yield! How oft I've, longing, wifh'd to view' The varied sweets together bound! And, Oh! 'tis granted!-for, in you, The precious prize at last I've found! CANSICUS. Charlotte fireet, Rathbone-place. A refuge from, the boift'rous fky :This breait affords no happier cheer Than the rude blighting blast you fly. Cold is the atmosphere of grief, When forms affail the heaving breast. Go, then, poor exile, feek relief Ia bofoins where the heart has reft. Or fall upon th' oblivious ground, Where filent forrows buried lie: There reft is furely to be found Or what, alas! to hope have I? Where, fepulchred in peace, repose In yender field the village dead, Go, feek a fhelter among thofe Who all their mortal tears have thed. LINES SENT TO A RICH MISER, who had safled his lungs in declaiming against marriage amongst the poorer. class of people. THUS fares the hen, in farmer's yard: To live alone fhe finds it hard; I've known her weary every claw, In fearch of corn amongst the ftraw; But when, in queft of nicer food, She chucks among her chirping brood, With joy I've feen that felf-fame hen That feratch'd for one, could fcratch for ten. Thefe are the thoughts that make me willing To take my girl without a fhilling; And for the telf-fame caufe, d'ye fee, Jenny's refolv'd to marry me. FOREIGN FOREIGN NEW S. Franconia, Aug. 19. SINCE the convention between the circle of Franconia and general Ernouf has been declared null, the French have again impofed on the city and bi fhopric of Wurtzburg a contribution of five millions of livres, and a requifition of 600 horses, and a great quantity of brandy, forage, &c. for the delivery of which they have required fifteen hof tages. At Bamberg, on the 16th, the whole garrifon was drawn up in the market with loaded pieces; when notice was given that a contribution was laid on the city and bishopric, of four millions of livres; befides a requifition of 100,000 fhirts, 100,000 pair of fhoes, 50,000 pair of fpatterdalhes, 10,000 pair of. boots, and 600 horfes; for the delivery of which they arrefted twenty perfons as hoftages. On the 17th inft. general Jourdain had his head quarters at Sulzbach. The French have fent away all the artillery from Forchheim. French government do not infift upon the union of thefe countries. The following were the pofitions of the Sambre and Meufe army on the 15th. The left ftretched to Pegnitz, in the direction of Steffelftein and Zellitz: the centre to the brook which has its fource in the environs of Zalinstadt, and falls into the Pegnitz above Herfpruch; the right wing was in front of Altorf, on the road to Neumark. The letter, containing the above details, announces that general Moreau has informed general Jourdan of his having, on the 13th, beat the archduke, and forced him to abandon his pofition at Donawerth. General Ferion, on the right bank of the Danube, has been extremely fuccessful. Nuremberg, Aug. 20. There was, the day before yefterday, an action in the environs of Sulzbach. We are ignorant of the refult; but it appears to have been very ferious; for, fince yellerday, more than 200 waggons of wounded have arrived here. It is faid that the Auftrians drew the French into a valley, where they were expofed to a tremendous fire of grape fhot; the imperial cavalry charged them seven times. Frontiers of Suabia, August 19. On the 13th, an action took place between the republicans and the corps of the prince of Condé, which was very bloody, and ended to the disadvantage. We have juft received accounts that of the Condéan troops. Five hundred yesterday afternoon, at three o'clock, wounded royalifts were conveyed to the French, after a heavy cannonade, the vicinity of Augsbourg. The troops entered the town of Amberg. of the prince of Condé have now joined the corps of general Frolich. Yefterday evening we completed the payment of the first part of our contriCologne, Auguft 19. M. Poiffant,bution of two and an half millions of commillary of the directory, has received difpatches, ordering him to fufpend all measures relative both to the organifation of the conquered countries and to the reforms of the clergy. It is evident that this order is an infallible fign of an approaching peace; at the fame time it is a proof that the VOL. XXVII. livres. The greatest order and trans quillity prevail in this city; and it is only by the march of the troops and the requifitions, that we know the country to be the theatre of war. This city is likewife to furnish a requifition of 10,000 pair of boots, 50,000 pair of shoes, 50,000 pair of patterdalhes, 50,000 3 I fhirts, fhirts, and 300 horfes, at four several times of delivery. The French have likewife taken all the artillery from the arfenal. Paris, Aug. 20. It is abfolutely true that negotiations are opened between France, Auftria, and the empire, for the purpose of effecting a general peace with all the powers of the continent. It is alfo certain that the conditions of this peace are to be dictated by the French republic, and that they are fuch as will take from our enemies the power of difturbing us for a long time. The king of Pruffia plays a great part in the negotiations of the princes of the empire with France. It is be who has detached them one by one from the interefts of the house of Auftria. This was the object of his journey, and his conferences at Pyrmont, whence we now learn that Frederic William is returned to Berlin. Every circumftance feems to lead the way to a speedy and neceffary peace; but a long time muft elapfe before Europe, torn and divided by revolutionary forms and their confequences, can refume an attitude of tranquillity. The directory has juft now ordered the caftle of Ruelle, near Paris, to be furrounded. It is there that the terrorifts were collected and trained. It was to have been the central point of a movement which has been for fome time in preparation. We fhould not wonder if Drouet were, again, to be found, by accident, in this affemblage. Hague, Aug. 20. Our fleet is fill in the Texel, blocked up by the English fleet. The other hips of war which are in the Meufe and the Vlie, are, however, endeavouring to join the Texel fleet, by taking advantage of fuch winds as blow off the coaft, and force the English to ftand off. It was by this means that the Mars man of war made the Texel, and we hope that the fquadron which is lying at Helvoetflays will Ikewife be able to reach the Texel. The military events in Germany are highly interefting to our country; and it is now the general opinion here, that, at the conclufion of a general peace, the ftadtholder will be indemnified by fome continental dominions, for his giving up the ftadtholderate. Stutgard, Aug. 20. Donawerth is now in the poffeffion of the French; and the Auftrians have retreated over the Danube and the Lech. General Fro lich is retiring over the Iler to Landf berg. The French, on their advancing to Bregenz, and the Voralberg, took 18 pieces of cannon, a great quantity of baggage, and large ftores of falt and meal. The peasants of the Voralberg, as well as thofe of the Tyrol had taken arms, and joined the Auftrians against the French; but the greater part of them have dispersed. Feldkirch is now in the poffeffion of the French: they have likewife made themselves mafters of the pafs of Fufmer in the Tyrol. General Wolf has taken a pofition in Bavaria from Weilheim to Portenkirch, to cover Tyrol on that fide. Vienna, Aug. 20. The difafters in Italy have rendered it neceffary to carry on the recruiting here in a more vigo Paris, Aug. 22. A confpiracy was rous manner than ever. Men will not difcovered at Rome on the 7th ult. in only he raised according to the ufual which no less than 1500 perfons were confcription, but the gentry are requir-affociated for the purpose of overturning ed to lend their coachmen, footmen, and domeftic fervants to the army. No foreigners are exempted but Hungarians, Ruffians, and Pruffians. The prince of Kaunitz, and other of the nobles, have given diftinguished examples of patriotifm. The former, among others, has promifed ten creutzers a day to all his fervants who fhall enter as volunteers, and to receive them again into his fervice after the war. Some commotions took place in Leghorn when the news arrived of the firft advantages of Wurmfer; but they were foon quelled. the government, and introducing jacobinifm. The principal leaders were Barbieri, clerk to the regiment of the blues, and Tognoli, a native of Bologna, who had ferved as deputy com miffary in the French army of the Pyrenees. The major of the blues difcovered the confpiracy, by means of two ferjeants of his corps, who con trived to take away the plans which Barbieri had drawn out. The confpirators had refolved to imprison the principal persons at Rome, and feize on the caftle. They were both fent to prison the fame day. Anfachy Anfpach, Aug. 22. The free imperial cities of Windfheim and Weiffenburgh have demanded protection of the king of Pruffià, offering to fubject themselves to his majesty's government, in confequence of a refolution of the magiftrates and burghers. His ferene highnefs the prince of Hohenlohe Kirchberg, in the service of the house of Auftria, died at the moment when he was to take upon him the command of the army, which count Wartenfleben was to have quitted. His ferene highnefs the duke of Birkenfeldt, count Palatine of the Rhine, after having retired from Landshut to Ingolstadt, went to Anfpach with his confort and family. Hague, Aug. 23. In the memorial which the Portuguese minifter, M. Pinto, delivered, on the 13th inftant, to M. Gildemeester, our conful at Lisbon, to notify that the embargo on the Dutch ships in the harbours of Portugal had been taken off, her Portuguefe majefty expresses her with to preferve peace and amity with the Batavian republic, and that no further occafion of difpute may arife between the two ftates. Paris, Aug. 25. From Angers we learn, that general Hoche is arrived there, and that he is employed in establifhing peace in the western departments. The directory has appointed a citizen of the name of Jacob, as chargé d'affaires to Turin.-As foon as an ambaffador is appointed, Jacob will be first fecretary of legation. The failing of the two Spanish fquadrons is an event which as naturally as forcibly rivets the attention of all the political world. One of them proceeds upon an expedition to America. The other is to cruise on the ocean. This laft, commanded by Don Juan de Langara, who has under him the vice admiral Don Jofeph Garcia, confifts of ten men of war of the line, exclufive of fmaller hips. Amongst these are, the S. Trinidad, mounting 136 guns; Mexicano, 112; S. Nicolas and Neptuno, 80; S. Telmo, Firme, Oriente, Ariante, Terribile and Gloriofo, 74; the frigates Guadalupe, of 36 guns; and Catalina, of 34; the corveties Atrevida and Elena, carrying 22 guns; Defcubierta, 40, and Pio, 18, together with two brigantines, l'Atocha of 22 guns, and Tartaro, of 18. The American fquadron, commanded by the marquis del Socorro, whose vice admiral is Don Jofeph Quevedo, amounts to the fume number; and of thefe are Principe de Afturias, carrying 112 guns; San Carlos, 94; San Vincente, 80; Bahama, Soberano, Pelayo, Conquistador, Arrogante, Gallardo, and S. Damafo, all of 74; the frigates, Flora and Ceres, of 40 guns; Elena, 36; Diana, Cecilia, and Tetis, of 34. Letters from Germany mention that the pretender is at prefent at Amberg. We are affured that the Auftrians have offered to evacuate Manheim and Philipfbourg, on condition that these places are treated as neutral. French require the ceffion of each of them until the conclufion of a peace. The The army of the Sambre and Meufe is advancing upon Ratisbon; never was a march more obftinately difputed. The elector of Saxony, dreading the approach of our troops, has determined to negotiate. He has fent three deputies to the armies, to conclude an armiftice. Army of Italy, Head-quarters, Milan, August 26. "The divifion of general Sahuguet has blockaded Mantua. "On the 24th, at three o'clock in the morning, we attacked the bridge of Governolo and Borgoforte, in order to force the garrifon to retire within the walls. "After a fpirited cannonade, general Sahuguet in perfon crofled the bridge of Governolo, whilft general Dallemayne took Borgoforte.-The enemy loft 500 men killed, wounded, and taken prisoners. "The 12th demi-brigade, and citizen Lahos, have diftinguished themselves greatly. "Our fall gallies have left Pefchiera, from whence they took ten large boats and two pieces of cannon belonging to the enemy. "Every thing here has the molt fatisfactory appearance. "I am informed that general Wurmfer is recalled, and replaced by general De Vins. (Signed) |