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But ftill new griefs the day-ftar brings to me,、 And with increase of woe his parting ray I fee.

When rolls the fun his flaming wheel
To yield to night's returning reign,
And the vaft fhadows length'ning steal
From loftieft mountains o'er the plain;
The lab'rer takes his ruftic arms,
And, with rude fhouts or fimple fong,
Winding the various path along,
Far from his breaft all forrow charms;
'Till on his board coarfe viands fpread,
Like thofe primeval acorns lie

Which mortals honour though they fly,
And joy appears, and care is filed:
Yet joy no more my suff 'ring bosom knews

My fong, if any ask thee, tell
Where now retir'd I choofe to dwell;
In the clos'd vale where Serga fprings,
While love alone approaches nigh,
Who to my thought her image brings
For whom all human steps I fly.

Nor can the roving planets bring me fhort O

repofe.

The fhepherd, when yon orb of day Sinks like a bird into his neft, And eastern skies, in dark array, Make contraft with the crimson west, Leaving the mead, the green, the brook, Homeward his way contented holds, Drives flowly to the ev'ning folds His drowsy flock with guiding crook, And far from noife reclines fecure In cave or hut with branches wove; Thou, cruel love, doft then allure Still more my wakeful steps to rove, Pursuing her, who, like the timid hare, Stops but again to fly, and marks my reftlefs

care.

To fome calm port by tempefts blown,
The failor fweet repofe hath found,
On the hard deck his limbs are thrown,
And rugged sarments wrap him round:
Tho' Phoebus feeks the diftant main
Beyond th' Herculean columns tall,
And night's kind mantle covers all,
While men and beafts forget their pain;
My forrows ftiil encreating flow,
And each fucceeding day is past
In fad excefs of bitter woe,
As vain and fruitlefs as the last,

I ten long years have measur'd thus in grief,
Unknowing where to feek, or how to hope relief.

Since fome fmall folace thence I find,
Still let me pour the mournful train;
Lo! where the loofen'd oxen wind
From furrow'd hills wide o'er the plain;
Yet ceafe not thofe heart-rending fighs,
My heavier yoke is ne'er remov'd;
No refpite has this bofom prov'd
But day and night my tears arise!
Ah! me, ill-fated was the hour
When first I saw her matchlefs grace;
Nor time, nor art can now have pow'r
The strong impreffion to efface,

Till feiz'd by death this anxious life is o'er, Nor am I well affur'd I then fhall live no more!

VERSES WRITTEN IN JAMAICA,

IN THE DOG-DAYS.

(TO A FRIEND.)

'ER fertile vales and mountains green You bid my wand'ring eyes to ftray, And tell me each furrounding fcene Affords a fubject for my lay.

"Go, fing yon pure meand'ring stream "That thro' luxuriant valleys roves; "That now returns the noontide beam,

"Now hides within the fragrant groves.

"Did e'er your boafted native Tweed "In fuch romantic windings play? "Or found he e'er fo fair a mead

"Thro' which to fport his wanton way?

"Bleak, bare and barren Cheviot lours;

"Chill is the wind, and keen the froft, "But thefe more lofty hills of ours

"Eternal vegetation boaft.

My eye, 'tis true, this moment views
The richest fcenes e'er poets fung;
Yet unpropitious is the mufe,

My heart unfir'd, my harp unftrung.

Say, what avails the fcented grove?

Or what the verdure of the vale?
Amidst thefe beauties can we rove?
Or can we half their fweets inhale ?

Or what avails the mountain's pride

That thus attracts the longing eye? We cannot climb its beauteous fide To tafte the diftant charms we spy.

A burning fun, a fultry air,

Our nerves in liftlefs languor bind, Each active principle impair,

And ev'ry function of the mind.

In temp'rate climates reign the nine,
Where healthful bards may widely ftroll;'
There paffion breathes in ev'ry line,

And fancy kindles all the foul:

But underneath this glowing sky,
Our first felicity is ZASE;
Give me in indolence to lye,
Be you the poet if you please.

FOREIG

FOREIGN NEW S.

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BERLIN.
September 13.

The Gazette of our city of this day contains the following advice from the head quarters of the Pruffian army, before Warfaw, of the 6th of September:

"At the very time when the Pruffian army fore Warfaw, by indefatigable exertions, and articularly by the advantages gained on the >th and 28th of laft month, had driven back e enemy to their laft redoubts before the city, and thereby facilitated the means of getting poffeffion of Warfaw itfelf, the focus of the revolutionary fpirit which has manifested itself in Poland, a violent infurrection of evil-minded and difaffected perfons, under the pretext of liberty, broke out on a fudden in South Pruffia, with fuch unexpected force and rapidity, that the greatest part of the lower nobility, at the inftigation of fame of their chiefs, rofe at the VOL. IV. October 1794.

fame time, and drew by compulfon into their party their vaffals, who found themfelves happy under the fceptre of a good and wife King, who had delivered them from their former yoke. Thefe men, provided with arms of all kinds, and even with cannon, affembled, threatened thofe who would not join them with the gibbts that every where were erected, plundered feveral towns, robbed the royal chefts, hanged the King's fervants, feized fome military commanders, burned a flour magazine, and feveral villages on the borders of Silefia, ftopped the fupplies of forare deftined for the army, committed depredations on all the high roads, and topped the communication of the potts; although they were vigorously opposed in several places, they nevertheless fucceeded in getting poffeffion of eleven veffels laden with warlike ammunition, which were coming from Graudentz by the Weixel.

"From this concurrence of circumstances, all South Pruffia, and the borders of Silefia, being in danger of falling into the poffeffion of the infurgents, and as by the lofs of the ammunition which, owing to the distance of the magazines, could not be replaced, the fire on the works of the enemy could not be kept up with the neceffary vigour, the King has refolved for the prefent to fufpend the fiege of Warfaw, and to march with his army on the 6th to Rafczin, in order to take an advantageous position, and be enabled to adopt fuch vigorous measures as circunftances may require for quelling this infurrection in the heart of South Pruffia, and to punish, in the feverest manner, its promoters and adherents. The Ruffian corps under Lieutenant General Van Ferfen has taken a position near Piaczefna.”

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tinction of rank, are in a state of requifition for the defence of this kingdom. By a royal edict, all Spanish fubjects have been enjoined to ferve by fea or land; certain privileges are to be granted to those who fhall voluntarily enter the fea fervice.

A tax is to be laid on all perfons holding of fices under government of fo much per cent. on the produce of their employments.

On the 12th inft. an English convoy of 33 merchant ships, and eight ships of war coming from Corfica, and bound to Gibraltar, and thence further Northward, paffed by Malaga. Among these ships there was one thip of the line and two frigates under French Royal colours.

monier, a vinegar-merchant, under pretext of mental derangement, the Prefident fummed up, and the Jury retired, in order to deliberate: on their return, they brought the following judg ment:

I. It appears evident, that there existed in the night between the 9th and 10th Thermidor, in the bofom of the Council General of the Commune of Paris, composed of Municipal Officers and Notables, a confpiracy tending to fhield from the fword of the law the traitors, Robef. pierre, fen. and jun. Couthon, St. Juft, Lebus, and other confpirators, to diffolve the National Convention, to re-establish Despotism and Royalty, &e.

II. That Dijon, Lemmonier, Chequoft, Marigny, Chevalier, Cuerin, Phillidor, Poiret, Domigne, Goats, Ardon, Poutain Leroux, Pellas,

A LIST OF VESSELS TAKEN BY THE Queudane, Gobelet, Deurot, Hemiot, Defhureau,

FRENCH.

The following Captures were reported to the Convention, in the fitting of September.

BROUGHT INTO L'ORIENT.

A veffel laden with flax, bound for Portugal, taken by the Refolute frigate.

An English hip, 250 tons, bound for Africa, taken by the frigate Fraternité.

An English brig, 100 tons, laden with brandy and wine, taken by the frigate Surveillante. An English brig, 180 tons, laden with oil of olives, taken by the frigate Surveillante. An English fhip, 150 tons, for Spain, laden with pitch and tar, taken by the frigate Courier.

BROUGHT INTO BREST.

An English hip 185 tons, laden with fugar, cotton and rum, taken by the Dryad. An English hip, 180 tons, laden with char. coal, copper, fkins, taken by the Agricola. An English brig, 180 tons, laden with cables, cloth, candles, &c. taken by the Trois Couleurs.

An English brig, 100 tons, for Portugal, laden with hemp, taken by the Trois Couleurs An English brig, 95 tons, for Barcelona, laden with corn, taken by the Trois Codicurs. An English brig, 150 tons, for Portugal, laden with iron and timber, taken by the Trois Couleurs.

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meafures, for quelling the infurrection in its in- country. We are, befides the Dutch, two Brifancy.

Prince Repnin has written to the King, that the ftate of things in Lithuania did not permit him to abandon thofe quarters, and march with his army towards Warsaw.

tifh, and one Heffian regiment. Our old Governor has refigned, and General Van Der Duin, brother to the officer who defended Sluys fo gallantly, is preparing for a noble defence. Hulft, Axel, Saas de Gand, and Philippine will not be evacuated till the laft extremity. No engagement has taken place near Maestricht.

The 20,000 French employed in the blockade

Extract of a letter from an officer of the 23d of Valenciennes, Condé, &c are now between

regiment in the WEST-INDIES.

"We have buried Lieutenant Colonel Lyfaght,-Captain Shaw, Enfigns Bowen and Stuart, Surgeon Gaynor, and his mate, Adamfon. Since I have begun to write, Lieutenant and Adjutant Lindfay died, 11 officers of the 23d regiment died alfo, among whom are poor Seagrave, Strickland, and M'Caufland; there is fcarce a day that there are not 7 or 8 officers buried, and the men are dying as fast as poffi

ble.

"The mortality is fo great at Port-au-Prince that no one will now venture thither; upwards of 24 officers and 700 brave soldiers have fallen victims to the malady."

The above letter mentions the death of doctor Forde, one of the most eminent phyficians of the inland.

The mortality amongst the British troops in the West Indies is great beyond all conception. By letters, received this day from that quarter, we learn that out of feventeen officers affembled on a general Court Martial, at Martinico, to try Sir Charles Gordon, nine of the number died before they could finish the trial, which obliged the Court to be diffolved -The victims to the contagion are fo numerous, that there are fcarcely men enough to bury the dead, and they are covered fo thinly with the earth, that the fentinels are known to have dropped dead on their posts they have been so overcome with the putrid effluvia.

At St. Domingo, ro less than 34 officers died in the month of July last.

The camp at Brighton is in a very fickly fituation, which attributed to the fite on which they are encamped. The late heavy rains have impregnated the clayey foil where they are fituated-and a great number of officers and men are row ill, fupposed from the damp on the ground. The Rutland militia, being nearest the fea, is most exposed to illness, and has, we understand, eleven officers and a great number of men il!.

The horses which have been lately purchased for the camp die daily, owing to their being kept in the open air, after being used to the ftable.

The camps, it is faid, are not to be broke up till after the meeting of the Parliament-and fome mention has been made of hutting the troops.

Antwerp and Mechlin, and are to march towards Maeftricht. They seem to have given up The French the project of befieging Breda. made a new requifition three days back at Antwerp, of 50,000 florins, and yesterday of 300 horfes, probably for their artillery; and at Bruffels oo men, I fuppofe to work either at the citadel of Antwerp, which they are fortifying, or at the future fiege of Maeftricht.-No credit is due to the idle report of the French evacuating the Low Countries; they niust be forced, and that by more than one battle. They have 4000 men encamped about twelve miles hence. Yesterday morning a reconnoitring party from this place pursued them to their very camp, and

killed one of their officers.

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 2.

The Dutch Mails are arrived, and have brought us the following important information.

HER V E,
September 20.

A violent cannonading was heard yesterday from the fide of Maeftricht; fevere engagements have taken place before Montenarken, and near Evenne, of which no details have yet been received. Batteries have been raised on the heights of Richelle, near Viset. The French, from the citadel of Liege, on the 14th, were feen to fend off a baloon into the air, in order to reconnoitre the position of the Auftrians. Next day they advanced in great numbers towards the river Ourte, and forced the Auftrians to cross that river.

P. S. From the head-quarters of Fouron we have just received an account of a defeat sustained on the 19th, by the Auftrian troops under General La Tour, near Sprimont and Louvegue, and that the French had croffed the Ourte and Meufe. Head-quarters will be transferred to Aix-la-Chapelle.

BERGEN-OP-ZOOM,-Sep. 20.

A malignant or jail fever reigns in this town, and the ague rages more than ufually all over the

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weiler; and Aix-la- hapelle, in confequence, must now be in the hands of the French; the latter have written to the inhabitants of Bourfheid, a fmall town near Aix-la-Chapelle, not to emigrate, or to carry of their goods. The French are constantly at the heels of the Auftrians.

AI X-L A-CHAPELLE,

September, 22.

It is unfortunately but too true, that the Auftrians have experienced a defeat on the River Ourte. There is conftantly paffing here, baggage coming from the country of Limbourg. The whole of the left wing of the Auftrian army has been cut to pieces.

General La Tour arrived on the 18th at feven

in the evening at Herve, and at ten the Camp from the Chartreufe Convent at Liege began moving, and the troops encamped near Herve.

On the 19th, this army established themfelves between Herve and Battice; but in the night, abandoned again their pofition, and retreated. The victorious French followed their enemies

close to their heels.

On the 20th and yesterday, we heard a formidable cannonading, and a large fire was feen from our high Towers.

Maeftricht is completely invefted by the French. The Auftrians are faid to have thrown feven battalions of troops into it, before they abandoned it.

FLUSHING,

September 28.

The three English regiments which have lately been encamped on this island with two other regiments from Guernsey, viz. the 78th, 79th, 8oth, 84th and 85th failed from hence on Wecinesday last, to join the Duke of York's army. The wind however being against them, the tranfports are still only a few miles from this place.

Orders have been given for the immediate

evacuation of Hulft and Sas de Gand. Lieutenant Motley of the navy, arrived here exprefs on Wednesday, with a requifition to the Burgomafter to prefs all the fishing boats in the harbour, for the purpofe of bringing away the troops

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which are ftationed at both thefe towns. two garrifons confift of upwards of 1900 men, all Hanoverians. No boats have as yet been procured, and it appears that under the prefent circumstances, the leaft delay may be produc→ tive of difagreeable confequences.

The British troops now in garrison at Bergen

op-Zoom have alfo received orders to leave that place as foon as poffible, and to join the army. They are to be replaced by Dutch troops.

The Republican Tallien has nearly fallen a vie tim to the hand of an affaffin in Paris. It is thought that Parrere has een the fecret means of this booly attempt, in revenge for Tallien's having hitherto denounced him as a Robesperian. The parties of all the mifereants in Paris at prefentrun high, and another deluge of blood it is expected will be the event.

Our advices from Conftantinople inform us, that a part of the Ottoman Empire has lately been vifited by an earthquake.

On the 3d of July three towns were swallowed up between Angora and Efdrum, in Natolia, formerly known by the name of Afia Minor, fituated fomething more than 200 miles S E. of Conftantinople, viz. Tchogram, which confifted of about 50co honfes; Amafia, the capital of the government of that name, which was ftill more extenfive and populous, and which is famed as the birth-place of Strabo; and Engtem, which contained between 3 and 4000

houses.

The population of these three is estimated at 100,000 fouls; and befides thefe, a number of villages, in the fame territory, were likewife deftroyed, fcarcely a tenth part of the inhabitants having escaped the dreadful catastrophe.

Private letters from Duffeldorf fay, that from the 14th to the 22d of September, General Clairfayt's army loft more than 11,000 men, in killed and wounded-bendes a great number taken prifoners;-ahove 100 pieces of cannon, and all the ammunition and baggage of the left wing. On the 24th, the French were still continuing to purfue and attack the Auftrians wherever they could overtake them, with the evident intention of driving across the Rhine all whom they could not destroy or make prisoners.

A letter from an officer in the Auftrian army, dated on the retreat between Aix la-Chapelle and Juliers, Sept. 20, fays," The 18th has been a fatal day for us: The French have cut pieces of cannon, one General (Otto) a number our left wing all to pieces, taken twenty-five of officers, and all the camp equipage -We do not know the lofs of our officers, yet, but it is very confiderable.-The infantry came up to our very guns, and the cavalry fought most defperately indeed, and were fo numerous it was impoffible to withstand them.

"God knows what will become of us, they follow us up as fast as we retreat: I wish we may be able to get over the Rhine. Maeftricht will certainly fall in a few days. The British army is alfo forced back over the Meufe: I fear much for the army, and all Holland. The Emperor's regiment of horfe is entirely cut to pieces. of 900 men; Latour, and the huffars also have Murray's regiment of infantry hast lost upwards loft much. In fact, we do not yet know our

lofs."

The Imperial Contingent of Saltzbourg, conthe late action near Liege, except 15 men, who fifting of 1500 men, were all cut to pieces in are now at Juliers.

HAGUE,

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