Clement's Church-yard; Mr. - to teach how to read it with a good cha Bookfelier, L-e-ft-t, and Mr. Fracter, may hear of a place by enquiring --r, Tobacconist, near in the at Meff. Strand. and bookfellers in the Strand An Englishman used to schools will be mofl agreeable: 2. Whether the writer was quite mafler of the English language. POETICAL A ELEGIAC EPISTLE from JOHN SAFE winding fhore, AFE from thefe waves that lash the Where Ganges hurries to Bengala's bay ; do's roar, The frighted veflel won her eafy way. Round Afric's fouthern cape the pilot fteer'd Thro' fires folftitial to Madeira's ille; And thrice my jovial mates exulting cheer'a Europa's hills, and Calpe's lofty pile. Now Albion, dearest Albion, to our view Rear'd her white cliffs, and fpread her helving fands: I faw her meadows wet with fhining dew; I faw her herds all pafturing o'er her lands. My glowing fancy pictur'd every blifs, Each focial Icene, all fond affection's joys, Thy tears, Sufannah, mix'd with many a kifs, The honeft tranfport of my girls, and boys. With eager hafte into the boat I fprung, (Curs'd be that step, and curs'd my luckless doom!) A crew of bloody bravoes round me clung, And drag'd me to this dungeon's hated gloom. If chance, Sufanua, to thyftreaming eyes Thefe lines fhall bring, thy woes 'twill all renew: But check, my fair, O check those heaving fighs, And think, with rapture think, that I was true. ESSAY S Adieu, remember me. If e'er we meet, ODE for the NEW YEAR. GAIN returns the circling year, A Again the feftal day, Which officers in its bright career, And calls th' harmonious band to animate her ftrain. Britain is the glowing theme And difcord feems awhile to reign, The ftorm fubfides, and they embrace again. Loofening now, and now reftraining, Yielding fomething, fomething gaining, As, tho' the feafons change, the year is ftill Preferve inviolate the public frame, the fame. C RITICKS be dumb-To night a From foft Italia's fhores an English mufe; Of love and arms the fings, the mighty two, Whole powers nniting must the world ́ subdue'; Of love and arms! in that heroic age, Nor taught in vain, the youth who dar'd afpire To the nice honours of a lover's fire, Obferv'd with dutious care each rigid rule, Each tern command of labour's patient fchool; Was early train'd to bear the fultry beams Will fhield you, ladies, from the fland'ring crew, And prove Greeks, Romans, all, must yield to you: I've read how women, many of condition, That each might take a load upon her back. They bore their loving husbands pick-a- The fame domeftic zeal has each fair fhe, For don't they bargain, when they quit their houses, ! At pleafure's call, to carry too their spouses Whereas with you, ye fair ones, fhall we fee That Roman virtue---hofpitality! The foreign artifts can your fmiles fecure, If he be finger, fidler, or frifeur; From our dull yawning fcenes fatigu'd you go, And croud to Fantoccini's puppet-show; Each on the foreign things with rapture ftares! Sweet dears!--they're more like flesh and blood than play'rs! As what we do, you modifhly condemn, So now turn'd wood and wire, we'll act like them ; Move hands and feet, nay even our tongues I speak of mortals who can fight, and feel! In peace or war, ye fair, truft only those, EPILOGUE in the Tragedy of ALMIDA. Who love the fex, and always beat their foes, Will none accept my challenge !---what difgrace To all the nibbling, scribbling, fland'ring Foreign and Domestic Intelligence. TUESDAY, JANUARY 1. UR correfpondent from Paris reKing came there to hold a bed of justice, all the members of Parliament went out of the affembly to a man, and left the King alone to enregifter his edict, and the moment the King went out at one door of the Parliament, all the members entered at the other door, and one and all entered a formal protest against the enregiftering the faid edict. By the fame correfpondent we are advifed, that orders had been fent to Court for twenty thousand troops immediately to furround the city of Paris, in order to quell, if poffible, the prefent infurgents; and that it was generally thought the military on this occation would not act offenfively against the mutineers, provided they were headed by the Parliament; fo that when this leter came from Paris, all was anarchy and confufion there. Wednesday, Jan. 2. Yefterday the Right Hon. Lord Howe went to Chatham, to hoift his flag on board the Barfleur, as Rear Admiral and Commander in Chief of the fquadron now fitting out. All the artillery companies at Woolwich have received orders to be ready to embark on a foreign expedition on two hours notice; and they accordingly held themselves in readiness. Every Spanish merchantman that is cleared out of Cadiz is infured; fo ftrong are the reports there of a fudden rupture with Great Britain. Extract of a Letter received on Monday night from Paris. "The Duke de Noailles, who is not yet abfolute Minifter, has all the precaution of Choileul, without one fpark of his ambition. He is for peace-he has repeatedly declared himself for peace with the English. With thefe fentiments, I can affure you, he entered into the head of the Cabinet of France." On Sunday night his Royal Highness the Duke of Gloucefter arrived in town, from inspecting into the garrison of Portsmouth. It is faid that the military establishment, propofed to be kept up in the Iland of Man, is to be cailed the regi ment of India. The officers are to have his Majesty's commiffions, and to be th ken from the army on half-pay. The Eat-India Company have voluntarily made offer to defray the whole expence of this proposed military establishment. His Majefty has ordered, according to annual cuftom, his bounty of 500l. to be diftributed amongst the poor of the ten parishes in Westminster. Monday their Majefties went to see the new ftatue erected to the memory of his late Royal Highness the Duke of Cumberland, in Cavendish-fquare. Friday laft a prefs gang was very bufy at Newington-butts, and having impreffed a poor countryman from his wife and children, the diftreffed woman followed her husband with lamentations, which induced many women to fally from their houses; among the Amazons was the famous Hannah Snell, who immediately demanded the captive from the Lieutenant; he refufing, and bad words enfuing, the collared and fhook him; two failors advanced to rescue their officer, whom he beat, and challenged to fight any of the gang with fifts, sticks, or quarter-ftaff, only let her be permitted to pull off her stays, gown and petticoats, and put on breeches, declaring fhe had failed more leagues than any of them; and if they were feamen, they ought to be on board, and not ineak about as kidnappers; but if you are afraid of the fea, take Brown Befs on your shoulders, and march through Germany as I have done: Ye dogs I have more wounds about me than you have fingers. By G-d, this is no falte attack; I'll have my man; and accordingly took the poor fellow from the gang, and rettored him to his wife. Thus did the long petticoats, headed by a veteran virago, overcome the thort trowfers.---Mrs. Snell has a pension of 50l. per annum left by the late Duke of Cumberland, for her many manly fervices by fea and land. The four convicts under fentence of death in Newgate were executed this morning, viz. Mark Marks, for a robbery in Whitechapel; John Jofeph Defoe and John Clark, for robbing Mr. Fordyce on the highway; and Thomas Hand, for fhooting at and wounding Mr. Holloway in the arm. Thursday : 36 Foreign and Domestic Intelligence. Thursday Jan. 3. His Grace the Duke of Bedford, befides forgiving his tenants a year's rent (as mentioned in the papers) has advanced confiderable fums of money, without intereft, to enable them to purchafe stock and implements in husbandry, which were deftroyed by the late great floods. Friday Jan. 4. We hear that at Liverpool 1000 feamen have been raised for his Majefty's fleet. The waters were fo much out by the late floods, there was no paflingfor man or horfe, for many days, between Lantrielen and Lantryhed in Glamorganfhire, SouthWales; nay, the very fine turnpike-road from Cardiff to Cowbridge, at feveral places, though raised as convex as poffible, no fort of carriage could pafs, it having rained fleet, and fnowed inceffantly for near three months past. The oldeft inhabitants in South-Wales declare, they never knew or heard from their ancestors the like before it is impoffible to afeertain the danage done, : A co belonging to Mr. Stitch, at Bromley in Kent, has had eleven calves from the 28th of April 1768 to the 4th o December 1770. The first time the calved three, fecond time two, third time one, fourth time five. Yesterday Capt. Ferguson, for the murder of his cabin boy, was executed at Execution-dock, purfuant to his fentence. He was a young man, about 26 years of age, and behaved with great penitence. After hanging the ufual time, his body was put in chains in the marshes near Blackwall. The executioner not being provided with a rope, the unhappy malefactor was detained a full hour in the prefs-yard till one could be obtained. Extract of a letter from Paris, dated Dec. 26. "The difpute between the King and the Parliament grows more and more ferious. The Monarch will be obeyed; the Parliament will not obey. Monday next is fixed for the final decision of this important matter; and the penetrating part of the world make no fcruple to fay, that they can easily fee that the bufinefs will end in nothing less than the exile of all the members, to a man; than which nothing can be more injurious to the public, as the adminiftration of justice will, in a manner, be at a stand. Madamoiselle Barre, right or wrong, is become the execration of the people, as being the inftrument of a party for rendering the Sovereign the detett tion of his fubjects." Captain Fergufon, while his ions were knocking off in the Prefs-yard yesterday, fhed tears, and faid, the unhappy affair happened that day twelvemonth, but declared he had no defign of murdering the boy. He behaved very penitently, and when he came to the place of execution he was fo affected as to be obliged to be fup. ported by two men till turned off. Saturday Jan. 5. On Thursday, about twelve o'clock, a man went into Mr. Folg ham's, a cutler, in Fetter-lane, and faid he wanted a confiderable quantity of hardware for exportation after looking over a great many cafes of knives, &c. he pitched upon a number of them, which he defired to be packed up, and on being acquainted they came to 50l. odd, prefented a bill on Hankey and Co. for 641. which he indorfed with the name of J. Johnfon. Mr. Folgham having been impofed on by a fharper with a forged draft fome time ago, fufpected the fraud, and inviting the man into his parlour, amused him while he dispatched a fervant to Mr. Hankey's bank, where the note was found to be forged; on this two of the banker's clerks repaired to Mr. Folgham's, where they feized the man, fand carried him before the Lord-Mayor. On his examination he faid he received the note in payment from a Jew, but owned his name was not Johnson, but Coan, and faid he was mate of an Eat Indiaman, upon which he was committed to New gate. Monday Jan. 7. Lord Chief Justice Wilmot has afked leave to refign. The Honourable Lord Commiffioner Bathurst will be appointed, in a very fhort time, Lord Keeper of the Great Seal. Mr. Moreton, Chief Juftice of Chester will be appointed a puifne judge in the court of Common-Pleas, in the room of Judge Bathurft. And Mr. De Grey will be appointed Extract of a letter from Vienna dated "Laft night at twelve a courier fet out for Berlin, with the secret treaty figned yesterday, being a guaranty treaty of conceffions between his Imperial Majcity and the King of Pruffia. The information you thall receive, as just given me by the Secretaire Intime. This Emperor gives us the towns of Oftend and Bruges · to the King, where a Royal Pruflan Eat-India Company is to be cftablished, and garvifoned by fourteen thousand Pruffans. The King engages to march with feventy thousand infantry and twenty thousand cavaly into Alface, to re-unite for over that ancient province to the domi Foreign and Domestic Intelligence. nions or the house of Auftria, and to re- We hear that her Grace the Dutchefs of Northumberland has ordered 300l. to be diftributed among the poor of the ten parishes of the upper and lower liberties of Weitininiter. Saturday morning at feven o'clock died, at Kentington, where he went but on Friday, the Right Hon. Lady Shelburne, Lady of the pretent Lord. Her Ladyfhip was the daughter of John Earl of Granville, and was married the 3d of Feb. 1765 A few days paft, a man being purfued by a prefs-gang ran for refuge into a clock-maker's in White-chapel, and took fhelter in an empty clock caie. The officer and men entered the houfe, and after fearching for fome time gave him up as lf; but one of the tars looking by acci dent towards the cvfe, difcovered of part the man's face through the glafs, and asked the clock maker what that was, pointing to the calc? The regulator of time replied, a clock;"- A clock! (an wered the failor,) It is a dd ugly dial plate, let us look at the guts of it; and accordingly opened it, and conveyed the poor fellow on board the tender. Saturday a matter of a ship was brought 37 before the Right Hon. the Lord-Mayor, charged with felling his apprentice as a flave to a rope-maker at Nantucket. In the courfe of the examination his Lordhip being governor of the London Workhoufe, recollected that the mafter had applied for feveral apprentices, and had them, but affured him that he should never have any more. His Lordship was however, under a neceffity of difcharging him for want of evidence. The father produced a letter written by his fon with a itick (for he could not procure a pen) informing him of the above tranfaction. : Sunday morning a gentleman was found fpecchiefs, and with very little figns of life, in Princes-ftreet, Drury-lane he had a wound of four inches in length in his throat, his pockets were empty, and nothing of any value about him but a cafe of inftruments, from whence it is conjectured, he is a furgeon. Wednesday Jan. 9. At the election of the sixteen Peers of Scotland, on Wednefday laft, in the room of the late Duke of Argyll, the Earl of Stair was declared elected, when the Peers prefent were in number 28, of whom 17 voted for the Earl of Broadalbane, 11 for the Earl of Stair. Friday Jan 11. Yesterday an Officer of the Navy came by order of the Lords of the Admiralty, to Guildhall, to defire Sir Robert Kite, who was the fitting Alderman, to back the preis-warrants, but Sir Robert refufed it; he afterwards went to the Lord-Mayor, who likewife refuted. There is a report of a bickering between a great lady and her fon, on the fubject of a peace or war, and that another lady, aunt to the latter, (who does not stand very well with the former) has taken the occafion to wait upon him in private, and remonftrate with him on the impropriety of his not affuming the dignity of his own character, but having recourfe to other perfons, by no means qualified to advise him in matters relative to the state. A letter from Paris, dated Jan. 3, fays that nothing is yet fixed on relpecting the appointment of a prime-minuter. The king feems utterly at a los on whom to make a choice, or the head of what party to elpoufe. One day he intimates one intention--the next, he refcinds his retolution and the third, feems in a doubtful perplexity (as apperrs by fome expreffions not altogether unfavourable towards the illuftrious exile Choiteut) whether or no the former minifter fhall refume his poft. Those about the person of his Majefty affirm, that, for certain, the king never feemed fo undetermined and in |