May 1762.

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Be these thy honours, HA FIFAX! and these The liberal mufe, that never ftain'd her page With flattery, fhall record: from each low view Each mean connection free, her praife is fame.

HIBERNIA's fenate with one voice proclaim'd
A nation's high applause; when, long opprefs'd
With wealth-confuming War their eager love
Advanc'd the princely dignity's fupport,
While HALIFAX prefided! O, belov'd
By every mufe, grace of the polifh'd court,
The peafant's guardian, then what pleasure felt
Thy liberal bofom! not the low denght
Of Fortune's added gifts, greatly declin'd;
No; 'twas the fupreme blifs that fills the breast
Of conscious Virtue, happy to behold
Her cares fuccessful in a nation's joy.

But O, ye filters of the facred spring,
To fweetelt accents tune the polish'd lay,
The music of Perfuafion! You alone
Can paint that eafy eloquence that flow'd
In Attic streams, from HALIFAX that flow'd
When all IERNE liften'd. ALBION heard,
And felt a parent's joy: No more, the cried,
No more fhall Greece the man of Athens boast,
Whofe magic periods fmooth'd the listening wave
Of rapt Ilyllus; Rome thali claim no more
The flowery palm of Eloquence alone
To grace her conful's brow: for never spoke
Himeria's viceroy words of fairer phrase,
Forgetful of Alpheus' haftening team,
When Arethufa ftopp'd her golden tide,
And call'd her nymphs, and call'd her shepherd
Swains,

To leave their sweet pipes filent. Silent lay Your pipes, HIBERNIAN hepherds. Liffey fmil'd,

And on his foft hand lean'd his dimply check, Attentive: "Once fo WHARTON (poke," he cried,

"Unhappy WHARTON! whofe young eloquence
Yet vibrates on mine ear." Whatever powers,
Whatever genii old, of vale or grove
The high inhabitants, all throng'd to hear.
Sylvanus came, and from his temples gray
His oaken chaplet flung, left haply leaf
Or interpofing bough fhould meet the found,
And bar its foft approaches to his ear.
Pan ceas'd to pipe · -a moment ceas'd for then
Safpicion grew, that Phoebus in difguife
His ancient reign invaded: down he caft,
In petulance, his reed; but feiz'd it foon
And fill'd the woods with clangor. Measures wild
The wanton fatyrs danc'd, then liftening flood
And gaz'd with uncouth joy.

But hark! wild Riots fhake the peaceful plain,
The gathering Tumult roars, and Faction opes
Her blood-requesting eye. The frighted swain
Mourns o'er his walted labours, and impiores
His country's guardian. Previous to his with
That guardian's care he found; the tumult ceas',
And Faction clos'd her blood-requesting eye.

Mean-while purfue, in Public Virtue's path,
The palm of glory: only there will bloom
Pierian laurels. Should thou deviate thence,
Perish the bloffoms of fair folding Fame!
Ev'n this poor wreath that now affects thy brow,
Would lofe its little bloom, the mufe repine,
And blush that HALIFAX had itole her praise.
INSCR IPTION.
May 11. 1762.

At Bath died

JOHN MACKINNON, from the Isle of Sky, Ag d 48.

A perfon of diflinguished merit.

Ignorant of avarice,
And the venal bribe,

He bravely preferred innocent poverty
To great riches,
Bafely to be purchased
At the expence of character,
Though nothing in view,
By the undaunted refusal,
But the feverest hardships;
A feries of which he underwent,
With Chriftian fortitude,
Influencing all his fteady conduct.
Afflicted with an obstinate lameness,
By the best advice
He ftruggled to Bath;
Where fome generous fouls,
Enamoured with Virtue under a cloud,.
And Merit in distress,
Generously infifted to fupport him
In every article of expence.
But his goodness of heart,
Inflexibly the fame,
As generously refused,
And chofe,

To enter into the hospital,
Rather than be burdensome to friends;
Where he remained till his death.
The tender care,
And affiduous attendance,
So feelingly given him,
Are paft all defcription.
VIRTUE,

Attractive of veneration,
Has honourably depofited his remains
In the burying-place of a gentleman,
By order,

And at the fight,
Of the generous proprietor;
With a monumental infcription,
Defcriptive of his character,
For the inftruétion of pofterity,
REGARDED IN LIFE;
REVERED WHEN DEAD.
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The

The NIGHTINGALE and the LARK. A fable.

THE
HE Nightingale once fung with wondrous

skill:

The plain approv'd; the trees and ev'ry leaf Due filence kept, and ev'n Aurora's felf Hung lift'n ng to her notes; for Philomel Could bring immortals down from Heav'n: And In honour of the goddess her fweet notes [now, Higher and higher ftill fhe rais'd, and all Her graces doubled. When the ceas'd, the Lark Bespoke her thus: "Your pipe is sweet; indeed, Sweeter than ours; and you with justice claim The preference And yet your merit's small. Some weeks. fome few short weeks, alone, you fing In all the year.". Alas! the fault you find," Reply'd the Nightingale," affects not me, But Nature; for, whenever the commands,

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I fing well-pleas'd; when the commands me not, I ftrive no more. Her laws direct my fong." Authors, mark this! in Nature's fpite

Who write and write!

EPIGRAM

On an English failor's playing on a fiddle, fitting on one of the cannon which his brother-failors | were dragging to the batteries before Fort-Regal in Martinico. [158.]

Quand,

au milieu du frayeur
Le bon monfieur le governeur
Voyoit du loin, à Martinique,
Le matelot brave, quoiqu' hérétique,
Pendant que toutes les troupes courûrent,
Ou bleffés en derrière mourûrent,
Ces paroles échapperent du bouche
Du grand Monfeigneur de la Touche:
"Morbleu! affis fur un canon

"S'i joue, comme ça, au violon,
"Il faut, ma for! que toute la France
"S'enfuit, comme nous, avec la danfe."

To a LADY PAINTED.
EN fay you're hand fome, and fay true;
But then the painter 'tis they praise,—not

MEN

you.

Snatched from an undeferving world, Here remains all that is mortai of

cestors:

Eloquent as Ulyffes,

Valiant as Hector,

Handfome as Achilles,

Tall as Xerxes,

And difinterested as Diomede. To his Country the fimeft patriot, To his Family the most indulgent parent, To his Lady the tendereft of husbands, To his Acquaintance the fincerest friend; Univerfal in his erudition, Accomplished by travel,

Mature in judgment, and of exquifite taste;
Great without pride,

Learned without oftentation,
Witty without rancour,

And elegant without affectation;

Steady to his trust,
Charitable to the poor,
Comp fionate to his enemies,
Aflable to his inferiors;
An enemy to diffimulation.

Nature was equally bountiful to him,
Both in perfen and understanding;
For he had,

With the wifdem of Solomon,
The fimplicity of a shepherd,
An openness of heart,

And manly becoming countenance,

Which to fully conflitutes the character of

A

BRITON.

Ob. An. Mun.

Vos valete et plaudite,

and most defervedly celebrated Lady,

Without one blemish in her form, With every perfection in her mind: Elegant as the hand of Excellence could polif nature,

No painter could do juftice to the charms of her face,

No sculptor to the gracefulness of her limbs.
She beamed upon the world,
The ornament of her own fex,

The admiration of ours.

In the discharge of domeftical duties indefatigable;
Regard for her childrens welfare,
Respect for her husband', happiness,
And reverence to religion,
Divided her daily hours:
Amiable in her deportment;
Unaffected in her manners;
A tranger to envy;

Good-nature her conftant companion; Mistress of every heart at her first appearance, Yet he took no delight to be univerfally admired; Her tale for drefs was only to be equalled by the manner of her wearing it:

Proficient in Harmony;

An adept in the Belles Lettres; Patronefs of the Arts and Sciences; Diftinguished in every court of Europe, As a perfect pattern of true politeness. She left this cumbrous load of life, On-on-aged

May 1762.

HISTORY.

[The postponed affairs are now inferted.] WIth respect to RUSSIA, we give four articles, the first of them from London, thus: "Various realous have been affigned for the fudden and furprifing change in the politics of the court of Ruflia; and, among others, it is faid, that a defign was laid, by the French and fome malecontents, to fet afide the fucceffion of the prefent Emperor; which laft account has been fully confirmed by fome authentic advices lately received from Petersburg, importing, that, about two hours before the late Empreis's death, the fent for the [then] Grand Duke; and ordering every perfon to depart the room, informed him, there was a confpiracy to aflaflinate him the moment after her deceate; that the herfelf had confented to it; but that he now advised him to repair immediately to Mr Keith the English minifter's houie, as the best place of fafety; which he accordingly did. This accounts for the great marks of civility fhewn by the Emperor to that mi. nifter."

The fecond is from Petersburg, of Feb. 26. in these terms. "The Emperor being informed, that at feveral courts of Europe, his minifters, and thofe of other powers, as well as the perfons in their retinue, are exempted from the cuftomhouse-duties, has declared, in return, that the minifters of the potentates in friendship or alliance with this empire, both actual and future, fhall enjoy the fame privilege from the moment of their entering Ruffia: The immunity of am. bafladors fhall extend to 4000 rubles; that of envoys-extraordinary and minifters-plenipotentiary, to 2000; and that of refidents, and perfons charged with ftate-affairs, to 500. And if minifters in a public character here will exhibit at the customhouse an exact account of the fums they have paid on their arrival in the empire, they fhall be reimbursed the fame. It is well known, that the Rulian minifters at divers European courts are not fo far indulged in this refpect."

The other two, allo from Petersburg, and published in the London gazette, are as follows.—“ April 6. The Duke de Biron appeared on Sunday last in the drawing-room, with the blue riband of Rullia, with which the Emperor had been pleafed to inveft him in his private apartment just before. The old Duke was

265 accompanied by the two princes his fons, and his Imperial Majefty thewed great dif tinction to the whole family, particularly to the Duke.-Field-Marthal Munich arrived here the 4th inftant, in perfect health, from the place of his exile." The Duke de Biron, formerly Duke of Courland, was exiled by the Princess Anne, who fucceeded him as Regent for her fon, the infant emperor John III. in' 1740 [iii. 91.]; and M. Munich, by Elifabeth, the Czarina laft deceased, in 1741 [iv. 90.].

"May 8. On Wednesday laft, the treaty of peace between the Emperor of Ruflia and his Pruffian Majefty, was figned by the Chancellor and Baron Goltze, plenipotentiaries named by the two courts for that purpose."

As to SWEDEN, the articles of importance run thus.

"Stockholm, March 19. Yesterday the ftates, in a fuli aflembly, unanimouf ly refolved, that the Prince-Royal fhould take his feat as often as he pleased, in the fenate and the different colleges, after making confetlion of his faith, receiving the facrament, and taking the oath."

"Stockholm, March 19. The private committee of the diet and fenate, in confideration of the great lofes fuftained by the war carried on against the houfe of Brandenburg, have requested his Majefty to make peace with the King of Prussia, on the best terms he is able."

"Hamburg, April 20. We have received advice, that a ceflation of arms for two months was tigned the 7th instant, at Ribnitz, in the duchy of MecklenburgSchwerin, by the Prince of Wurtemberg on the part of his Prulian Majesty, and by Lt Gen. Ehrenfchwerdt on that of the King of Sweden. A feparate convention was likewife agreed upon the fame day, at Ribbitz, for the free intercourse of commerce both by fea and land, which was figned by the Pruffian lieutenantcolonel L'Houme de Combiere, and by the Swedish adjutant general De Gre venhagen, and the first auditor Eischer." Lond, gaz

"Stockholm, March 23. Laft Saturday a motion was made in the chamber of Nobles, that the fecret committee fhould be authorised to inquire immediately, at what time, by whom, and for what ufes, fuch large fums have been negotiated by the government; but the confideration of this affair was poftponed.-Yefterday the motion in the houte of Nobles, for in

quiring

quiring into the large fums negotiated by the government, paffed in the affirmative, 440 to 431. The majority were the court-party, which now appears to have a manifeft fuperiority in the diet."

"Hamburg, May 25. The treaty of peace between their Pruffian and Swedish Majefties was figned here the 22d inftant, by M. de Hecht, minifter-plenipotentiary on the part of the King of Prullia, and by M. de Olthoff, on that of the King of Sweden." Lond. gaz.

The King of DENMARK feems cautioufly to avoid every thing that might look like an act of hoftility. His troops, in their late march, fetched a compafs of four German leagues, to avoid touching the territory of Ruffian Holstein. According to late accounts, the headquarters of those troops, commanded by the Count de St Germain, were at Morie, about half a German mile from Lubeck, Several advices bear, that the differences fubfifting between his Danish Majefty and the Emperor of Ruflia are in the way of being adjusted, under the mediation of G. Britain and Pruffia.

In GERMANY and its neighbourhood there have been fome military operations; but, according to late advices, none of them of very general confequence. The hereditary Prince of Brunswick advanced from Munster in Weftphalia, and, on the 19th of April, made himself master of Arentberg, after about fix hours firing; the garriíon, to the number of 9 officers, and 231 private men, furrendering themfelves at difcretion, with 26 pieces of cannon. The French near that place, upon advice of the expedition, marched in order to fave it; but were too late. After railing a number of recruits in the duchy of Weftphalia, and the county de la Mark, the Allies repaffed the Roer; and the French returned to their former quarters. They write from Duffeldorp, of May 9. thus. The hereditary Prince of Brunfwick, being determined to raise the contributions he had demanded of the duchy of Berg, marched near twenty leagues in two days, and thereby appeared at Elberfeld when he was leaft expected. The corps of Conflans, and the other troops that were there, retreated with great precipitation, though not without fome lofs. From Elberfeld his Serene Highness advanced to Solinguen, and from thence, having fulfilled the object he had in view, by taking hostages for the payment of the contributions, retired

The

without any lois. On this movement, the Prince de Cone aflembled fuch troops as were nearest at hand, and marched to Medman; but on advice that the hereditary Prince was retired, he tent back the troops to the garrifons from whence they had been drawn." Lond, gaz. Allied troops have also gained fome advantages over the French on the frontiers of Hanover. The Prince de Soubile arrived at Francfort on the Mayne the 16th of April, to command the French army intended to penetrate through Heffe into Hanover, and foon after let out for Caffel; and the Prince of Condé at Duileldorp the 25th, in order to direct his operations toward the fame e- ! lectorate through Weftphalia. On the 10 12th of May, Marthal d'Eftrees arrived at Caffel, to act in concert with the Prince de Soubile. According to late advices the armies on either fide were taking the field.

In confequence of the ceffation of hoftilities between the Swedes and Pruffians, the Prince of Wurtemberg left Roîtock, capital of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, about the 20th of April, with all the troops under his command, except 500 which remained there as a garrison. He has joined his Pruthian Majefty in Silefia with a part of them, confifting of fix battalions) of foot, and one regiment of dragoons. Whither the rest of them went, we have not yet diftinctly learned.

In Saxony, Prince Henry of Prussia asfembled his army the 6th of May. The London gazette has given us the following accounts of fome advantages gained

over the Auftrians fince.

"Hague, May 21. We are informed from Saxony, that Pr. Henry had opened the campaign there, having croiled the Mulda in three columns, at Rolswin, Dobein, and Leifnig, and furprised the left wing of the Auftrians, and made Gen. Zeitwitz, 12 officers, and 1500 men prifoners of war, taking three pieces of cannon. His R. Highness was advancing to Freyberg; and the army of the Empire was retiring with precipitation."

"Hague, May 25. The account of Pr. Henry of Pruffia's expedition against the Austrians is fully confirmed, with this further addition, that his R. Highness had made himself mafter of Freyberg, where he found a confiderable magazine; and that the Auftrians had retired to Dippoldfwalda."

"Hague, May 28. Accounts are just ar