Yet do not think, proud firs, that we fhall own The genius we admire is yours alone. We claim our share. Our tafte, and wisdom too, Can equal yours: fo let us have our due. We ftudy the antique! Its fimple grace Shines forth in ev'ry form, and ev'ry face! Thus Lady Candlewick, Sir John juft knighted, [bedighted Prepares for court. Like turkey-cock, With rofy gills, red plumage, pink and muflin, And fearlet petticoat, the fatin ruftling, She blazes all abroad! As if the came To fet the prefence-chamber in a flame! Loaded with dignity, and loops, and laces, The prototype of Wenus and the Graces. mountain's brow, haunt mæandring ftream, or wanton plain? Up the fteep mountain's heights with thee I go ; [ftrain; Or wake by river's brink the merry Or I will trip the laughing plain along, A simple swain 'midst hinds and virgins gay, [Long, And still will chaunt to thee the ev'ning Unwearied with the raptures of the day; And when embrac'd in fleep's foft arms I lie, [midnight ecftaly. Still flattering dreams fhall wake their Or doft thou choose to wear the fober veil Of mild philofophy, and walk unfeen, Serenely grave, along the cloifter pale, Or in the penfive grove, or shaven green ? Then will I tend thee on thy fecret way, And from thy mufing catch the patriot flame, Gentle and clear as the fun's filing ray [beam, At dawn, yet warm as his meridian When wond'ring Indians view the potent blaze, And think they fee their God, and kindle into praise. Such waft thou feen near Ifis' filver flood [mortal fage; In converse fweet with Locke, imSuch too by Cam with him whose bofom glow'd [Mufe's rage. With thy fweet raptures, and the Nor renew, By me lamented, as by me rever'd! Whene'er remembrance would the paft [view; His image mingles with the penfive Him through life's length'ning scene Imark with pride, (guide. My earliest teacher, and my latest Firft in the house of prayer, his voice impreft Celeftial precepts on my infant breaft: "The hope that refts above," my childhood taught,, [thought. And lifted first to God my ductile And when the heav'n-born Mufe's cherifh'd art [ing heart, Shed its freth pleafures on my glowFlash'd o'er my foul one fpark of purer light, [fight. New worlds unfolding to my raptur'd When firft with timid hand I touch'd the lyre, [defire, And felt the youthful poet's proud His lib'ral comment fann'd the dawning flame, [name; His plaudit footh'd me with a poet's Led by his counfels to the public shrine, He bade the trembling hope to pleate be mine; What he forgave, the critic eye forgives, [lives: And, for a while, the verfe he fanction'd When on that spot where Gallic free dom rofe, [ampled woes, And where the mourn'd her unex And without fneering, teach the reft His friendship o'er me fpread that guardian fhield, [wield; Which his fevereft virtue beft could Repelled by him, relentless flander found Her dart bereft of half its pow'r to [wound. Alas! no more to him the task belongs To foothe my forrows or redress my wrongs; No more his letter'd aid, enlightened fage! [page; Shall mark the errors of my careiefs Shall hide from public view the faulty line, And bid the merit he beftows be mine. Ah! while with fond regret, my feeble verfe [low'd hearfe, Would pour its tribute o'er his halFor him, his country twines her civic palm, [embalm; And learning's tears his honour'd name His were the lavish ftores her force fublime [from time; Thro' ev'ry paffing age has fnatch'd His, the hiftorian's wreathe, the cri tic's art, A rigid judgment but a feeling heart: His, the warm purpofe for the gen'ral weal, [tian's zeal; The chriftian's meeknefs, and the ChrifAnd his, the moral worth to which is given, [of heaven. Earth's pureft homage, and the meed Mifs W. took refuge in Switzerland during the reign of Robespierre. SONG SONG In the NEW ENTERTAINMENT of the A Lock and KEY. AIR-RALPH. Woman is like to-but stayWhat a woman is like, who can fay? There's no living with or without oneLove bites like a fly, Now an ear, now an eye, Buz, buz, always buzzing about one. As a ripe melting peach in September. And with fmiles and good humour she meet me, She is like a rich dish Of ven'son or fish, That cries from the table, "come eat SONNE T. By THOMAS DERMODY. Written in the Fifteenth Year of his Age. I Fill the bowl, I tafte the nectar'd lip: Still intervenes yon fcowling spectre, Care: [witching fair; Vain the hot vintage, vain the Athwart each blifs he glides in fhadowy fweep, Dashes with gall the feftal draught fin cere, [tear! And, in love's dimple drops a killing Where fhall I fhun his baneful glare malign ? Lo! proud philofophy, demurely cold, [fickly gold, Lo! wealth pale-withering o'er his Alternate 66 cry to lay this fiend be mine !" While, 'mid their vaunts, his fhafts avengeful glide, Wound the fear front, and check the learned pride. Majeftic nymph of lion-bofom, bound In faith's ftrong panoply, attend my pray'r, [around, Shed thy bright glance of graceful forn For, as the louring files of darkness fly, Rapid, before the fun's illuftrious eye, So fhrinks from Fortitude that craven Care! FOREIGN Bagdad, (in Turkish Perfia) 08. 29. EVERY thing announces confiderable changes in Perfia, which must have confiderable influence upon the balance of power in Afia, and will in a special manner affect the interests of all the European powers, but moft that of the Turkish empire. Aga Mahmet Kan, an eunuch, has twice defeated the young prince Loff Ali Kan, and made himself | maller of Chiras, with all the treafure of the grandees at that place. The prince has retreated to Kierman, with the wreck of his army, from whence he has fent to claim the affillance of Ruffia, This power, it feems, has formed the design of seizing upon fome of the provinces, as an indemnification for its trouble. A Chan of Maferandan, a partifan of the prince Loff Ali Chan, having marched to Ghilan with fome troops, was joined by 1500 Ruffians from Aftrakan, and afterwards feized upon Becht, the capital of Ghilan. NEW S. at that period.-General Urrutia, after having repofed from his fatigues at St. Pedro d'Arena, has entered into this capital amidst the applauses of a numerous populace. Banks of the Rhine, Dec. 20. From the 13th not a day has elapfed in which fome action has not taken place between the French and the Auftrians. That which took place near Helmftein, on the Hunfdruck, has been chiefly fatal to the latter; they were completely beat, and had a great number killed and wounded. The French, on this occafion, pillaged the town of Layen, but were at laft completely driven out of it. We are informed, that the baggage and park of artillery of the army of Jourdan have been already fent into the territory of Liege. Coblentz, Dec. 25. As neither oxen nor other cattle are to be obtained in the neighbourhood, for the fupply of the French troops on the Huntdruck, 1400 peafants are employed weekly to procure provifions from the distance of 6 or 7 leagues. We alfo learn from Teftes, the capital of Georgia, that prince Heraclius was in daily expectation of two Ruffian regiments, in order to penetrate, with the Georgian troops, into the provinces of Chervan and Aderbelan. Prince Heraclius is the mere creature of the Ruffians, who feems glad of any pretext for making an irruption into Perlia. Mentz, Dec. 27. Since the confer-new-intended works. ence between the French and Auftrian generals at Heinweiler, near Kern, in which the ceffation of arms was con certed, all sur troops that had advanced towards the Molelle, are ordered to fall back. The paffes which lead to the pofition of the French on the Hunfdruck are now fortified in the firongeft manner. Upper Rhine, Dec. 26. Mentz is to be ftill further fortified; the circle of the Upper Rhine is to furnish from five to fix thousand men, to work upon the Madrid, Dec. 17. A royal order has been iflued, fignifying that the French merchants, obliged to leave their fettlements at the commencement of the late rupture, are to receive a full indemnini. cation for the lofs of their effects, &c. VOL. XXVII. They write from Heidelberg, that the Auftrians took, on the 19th inftant, one hundred belis, which they had taken from the churches in the Palatinate, and were conveying away. The town of Spires has not a fingle bell left to ring to church with. Heidelberg, Dec. 26. On the 16th, the imperial general, Lauer, declared to M. de Vinningen, prefident of the Palatine government, and M. de Perglafy, the chamber prefident, that he N had had received orders from the emperor | to feize upon the general treafury of Manheim, as well as the feveral others in the Palatinate; that it was done partly with a view of reftoring the fortifications, partly to raise new works on the other fide of the Rhine, and partly to provide neceffaries for Manheim. Both the prefidents formally protefted againft fuch proceedings; the general, however, remained inflexible in his duty. On the following day, an imperial counfellor of revifion arrived to take poffeffion of them. Time will fhew what confequences this ftep will be productive of. Manheim, Dec. 26. A letter from Deux Ponts, dated the 238, ftated, that the French were preparing to quit that city and its environs. It is prefumed that this movement has been oc cafioned by the arrival of the Auftrians near Treves, and that the divifion of general St. Cyr is proceeding towards Saar-Louis. Bonn, Dec. 29. Whether the headquarters will continue here during the winter, or be removed farther towards the Maefe, is as yet uncertain. At Cologne the French have arrefted a number of the clergy as honages; they having imposed a contribution of 100 carolines on each of the monafteries, &c. &c. and one of ico rix-dollars on each order of the regular clergy, the poorer claffes of mendicants only excepted. Vienna, Dec. 30. There has been much agitation respecting the foundation of the new univerfity; but it has been finally fettled, that the edifice hall be built out of the city. Genoa, Dec. 30. The French have entirely evacuated Piedmont. The corps which was advanced to Ceva, and had for two days blockaded that fortrefs, has abandoned the enterprise, at the appearance of the united Sardinian troops, under the command of prince Carignan, and generals Argenteau and Latour this corps of the army occupies at prefent all the country before Ceva, to the extreme frontier which joins to our territory. Kreutznách, Dec. 31. The fufpen fion of arms is now finally fettled.Field-marthal Clerfaye fets out to-mor row for Vienna; and the troops go int 6 winter quarters.-The heavy cavalry is to commence its march on the 2d of next month, and the infantry is to follow without delay. Spire, Jan. 2. The day before yefterday a French officer, with a bandage over his eyes, was introduced to the Auftrian general Otto, where he ftayed an hour. The horse he had rode upon was conducted by a trumpeter and an huffar on his return, and the officer having the bandage taken from his eyes, was conducted back again in the general's chaife, accompanied by an Auftrian officer of rank. From the civilities mutually fhewn on this occafion, it was conjectured that the French officer had brought fome aufpicious intelligence, and that negotiations for peace were actually on foot. Ehrenbreitfein, Jan. 2. The French are hard at work upon batteries at two places hetween Capellen and Oberwerth. They are alfo uncovering the abbey at the latter place; the fine new church was likewife unroofed. The principal light-houfe at Cruxhaven was blown down by the violence of the wind on the night between the 2d and 3d inftant. A veffel from Lon don, as an inftance of quick failing, had arrived there from London in forty. eight hours. Franckfort, Jan. 2. The armistice has not yet been formally published in the armies, neither will it be, till the ratifications arrive from the emperor and the French government. All is quiet at prefent, as hoftilities are quite at an end between the advanced polts of the enemy, and the armies of Jourdan and Pichegru. The French general Kleber, is at Strasbourg, where he has taken the command. A number of the troops of Heffe Darmitadt, on their return from Ofnaburgh, are faid to have been taken into the pay of the emperor. The head quarters of the imperialifts are likely to continue all the winter between Kreutznach and Mentz. Count Erbach commands the army of the em. pire pro tempore. Hague, Jan. 2. A rupture between the provinces, and a feparation of the federative union, had nearly occurred on the 29th, when, upon the decifive conclufion fefpecting the choice of a national |