Mildly inflict, fubmiffive I endure.
EPILOGUE to the new Tragedy of KING
HENRY THE SEDOND: or, the Fall of
Rofamond. Written by GEORGE COL.
MAN,Efq. Spoken by Mifs BAR SANTI.
REAT and fair Ladies! Lords gal-
lant and mighty!
Behold a female-fresh from Otaheite.
Stretch to the fouthern ocean your idea,
And view in me the Princess OBEREA.
Full three long hours I've fat with
fmother'd rage.

TR Y.

To fee a Queen maj fically fwagter.
A bowl in this hand, and in this a dagger
To tab or poifon (cruel inclination!)
A 'maid who gave a husband confolation..
Ah, Ladies! no fuch Queen at OгA-

Love there has rofes-without thorns to"
fright ye;
Frolick our days, and to complete our joy,
A COTERIE's form'd; 'is call'd the AK-

Where love is free and general as the air,
And ev'ry Beau gallants with ev'ry Fair;
No ceremonies bind; no rule controuls
But Love, the only tyrant of our fouls!

But pleasure's foreign to thefe northern
climes,

And love, I hear, unknown in thefe duli times:

Never was maiden in these days caught, tripping,

Never was wife on pleafure's ice found flipping:

True to their Lords, to gallantry ne'er

And with her graces heightens beauty's charms, Hear a frail fifter on your pity call, To hear the nonienie of your tragic ftage; And lave fair RosAMOND a fecond fall.

POETRY.

Even rage, and tumult, trial too fevere, Skill'd to appeale, or with good sense to bear.

With brilliant fancy grac'd, her reafon

And wishes all, even as her theme, to
fhine,

In charms refiftlefs, fhall I fay divine?
From this bright model your perfections

For know, to imitate, is fometimes
praife:

By her example ftudy and improve;
And, with defert, affure yourselves of

The maid, who, with inceflant ardour,
-reads

Wild legendary tales of brainfick deeds,
Atchiev'd in any regions of romance;
And fuch, as flimfy, modern dreams cn-

With her, may, juftly, ignorance despise,
And be, at once, both amiable and wife.
If beauteous, learn, from her, not to be
vain ;

Nor yet invidious, if you are but plain;
And that effential blifs would you receive,
The foul muft, rather than the body,

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Warfaw, November 29.1

HE Auftrians have begun to fend away the magazines which they had formed in this kingdom. We are afraid that tranquility will not fo foon be established in this unhappy kingdom as was hoped for; there reign a great divifion between the miniftry and the delegation; and it is faid that the project of ettablishing a permanent council is entirely rejected.

Conftantinople, Nov. 17. The 12th of this month a Tartar arrived from the Grand Vizir's army, who was charged with a verbal account, that a corps of our troops, commanded by Apri Pacha and Chaous Pachi, amounting to about 40,000 men, who were going to attack the Ruflians in their reintrenchments at Bazargick, in or der to diflodge them from thence, and force them to repafs the Danube, and by that means prevent their taking up their winter quarters on this fide of that river, had the misfortune not only to fee their intentions entirely defeated, but were moftly cut to pieces by the Ruffians, who made 10,000 of them prisoners.

made prisoners, or killed in the late a tions, that the utmost might be tried to prevent the Ruffians from taking Varna.

At an affembly of the chiefs of the Janiffaries, it was refolved that 60,000 nien were to be raised immediately, to whom the Grand Signior has granted a pay of 13afpres per diem.

Madrid, Dec. 13. A few days ago we received the melancholy account of the deftruction of the town of Guatima's by an earthquake. The earthquakes have generally been felt there every fpring and autumn, but the first shocks of this did not come on till June, the frequent repetitions of which alarmed the inhabitants, so that they removed themselves and their effects in time; the public edifices, churches, convents, &c. could not withfand the violence of these repeated fhocks; however, there have not been many lives loft, though the damage is otherwile very confiderable.

Paris, Jan. 3. A few days ago the following extraordinary accident happened at St. Denys. A dragoon and the drum-major of his regiment went to an This courier adds, that two Turkish inn there, and after dining and drinking commanders were among the flain; and together, the people of the house were that thofe who escaped the enemy's fword, alarmed with the report of piftols from fled to the Grand Vizir, and threatened the room they were in, and upon going openly to revolt against him, if he did not up ftairs found them both dead upon the immediately march in person against the floor, each with a pistol in his kand. On Ruffians, and redeem their captive com- the table was a piece of fix livres, and rades; that the Grand Vizir, fearing they fome papers, which proved to be the will fhould keep their promife, had marched of thefe two unfortunate young fellows at the head of his whole army to attack the preamble of which was, that as their the enemy, who, notwithstanding the in- lives were a burthen to them, they feriority of their forces, after a bloody thought they had a right to them away; battle entirely defeated the Ottoman army; and the rest contained a fhort difpofition that the Grand Vizir was faid to be dau- of the little they had; and the dragoon geroufly wounded; and that the enemy particularly bequeathed his fword to a after this victory marched against Varna, comrade, his intimate friend. The wild most of the inhabitants of which place, was written by the dragoon, and figned by fearing they fhould be pillaged by the both of them; and it appears by many Coffacks, had filed with the most valuable circumstances, that they were young fellows of good education and capacity. part of their effc&s. The dragoon was 20 years of age, and the drummer 25, both fine fellows, and univerfatly beloved.

Thele difagreeable accounts have been confirmed by other expreffes which arrived the 13th and and 14th initant, and have thrown the Grand Signor and the Divan into the greatest confternation.

The Divan affembled immediately on the arrival of thefe acconnts, and orders were fent for the fame number of troops to march to the any as have been either

Stockholm, Dec. 24. The Count de Hopken, who fome years ago refigned the dignity of fenator, and had retired from public affairs, has been recalled by the King, in confequence of the following letter;

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"I call you at the head of my fenate, rations, had not the elements themfelves to ferve me as a counsellor and conductor. put an invincible obitacle to the profecu If I knew a man in my kingdom of more tion of them; for at that very time a feunderflanding and virtue than yourself, I vere cold fet in alternately with fnow and would leave you to enjoy your retirement; fain, which lath made the rivers overflow but when the Almighty bettows great ta- a great part of the country, and thus not lents upon any perfon, he like wile defigns only cut off all communication with the that they fhall be employed for the public oppofite fhore, but also obstructed our in good. I have now done my duty; do tercourfe with the interior parts of the yours. I was willing to demonstrate to country on this (de the Danube. The first my country, and to all Europe, that I confequence of this was the difficulty of with for no other fplendor on my throne providing our different corps with necef but that of virtue. in cafe you perlift in faries in a country fo abfolutely deftitule not acquiefcing with my requell, and that of forage; they were therefore obliged to of my people, I declare you refponible repafs the Danube, after having demolishfor it to the nation and to pofterity." ed feveral magazines and forts that might have been of advantage to the enemy. Se veral thoufand of Turkish and Chriftian families, who were difpofed to fettle on this fide of the Danube, were brought over, as alfo a prodigious number of cattle of all forts. After thefe and feveral other advantages over the enemy, our troops now enter their winter quarters, with the certainty of remaining undisturb ed, and in a perfect fecurity, from the enemy being disabled to establish themfelves upon the Danube."

Conftantinople, Dec. 13. Our letters from Syria bring no account of the happy fuccefs of our arms. The Pacha of Damafcus, who commands our army there, hath been entirely beaten by Ali Cheick, fon of Cheick Dahar, and his defeat has been followed by the taking of Baruth.

Advices from the Archipelago informs us, that the Ruffian fleet hath again begun to vifit all neutral hips, and carry off fuch merchandize as belong to the fubjects of the Porte.

Extract of a letter from Marshal Count Romanżow, dated Dec. 9.

"After the deleat of the enemy near Karaffow, on the 28th of October, our troops advanced to Bafargie, which they took, together with 18 pieces of cannon, and a great quantity of provision. Upon the intelligence of Varna's being but poorly defended, General Ungern fent a fmall part of his corps thither, which, contrary to expectation found the town weli fortified, a trong gaurifon in it, fupported by armed inhabitants of the environs, and by a fleet. Our troops, however, made a bold affault on the 11th of November; but finding it impoffible to force the retrenchments, they retreated with the lofs of 11 men, in fuch good Order that the enemy dared not come out to follow them. This difappointment would not have retarded our further ope

Petersburg, Jan. 1. We have juft received authentic advice from Jaffy which affures us, that the rebels are entirely dri ven out of the Crimea; that Ockzakow, at the mouth of the Nieper, is the only place of confequence in their poffeffion; and that the Ruffian general in the Crimea is preparing to attack them there, he having taken fuch juft precautions that it will be impoflible for the Turkish commander Crim. Dewlet Guery to form any conjnnċtion with them; it is therefore probable that the Crimea will foon be under the dominions of the Ruffians.

Oftend, Jan. 19. The diftemper among the horned cattle, and the flaughter of the infected, full continue, in different parts of this province and neighbourhood; and to this mode of prevention the committee hitherto feem refolved to adhere.

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JAN. 1. Letter from Algiers, dated Oct. 30, by vellerday's mail from France, fays, "The English frigate the Alarm of 6 guns, Capt. Stot, catt anchor there the 14th, and ad delivered letters to the conful of his nation, in which

he demands, that the beats and chaloupes belonging to English flops thall have the power of retaining Chrich flaves who have escaped, as well as the fhips; that they should reftore five Panugueze. who had eight years fince been taken out of an

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