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BEAUTY and FASHION,

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* I give a charm you furely will spoil it: When you take it in hand, there's such mu th'ring and mangling,

'Tis fo [metamorphos'd by your fiddling and
fangling

That I feare know my own when I meet it again,
Such changelings you make, both of women and

meni.

To confirm what I fay, look at Phryne or
Phills,

I'm fure that I gave 'em good roles and lilies:
Now what hav, you done?— Let the world be
10 Beahe judge:

Why you dau 'em all over with cold cream and

That, like Thibe in Ovid one cannot come at 'em,
Unless thro' a mud-wall of paint and pomatum.
And as to your drefs, one would think you
quite mad,

From the bead to the heel 'tis al! m querade;
With your flounces and furbe.ows, facks, trol
lopees.

Now Sweeping the ground, and now up to your

kne s

Your pinking, and crimping, and chevaux de
frize,

And all the fantaftical cuts of the mode,
You look like a nedlamite ragged and proud!
Then, of late, you're fo fickle that few people

mind you;

my part, I never can tell where to find you; dret in a cap, now naked in none; Now loofe in a mob, now close in a Joan; Without handkerchief now, and now buried in Now Plain as a Quaker, now all of a puff; [ruff; Now a neat stays, now a flattern in jumps; Now Now monftrous in hoop, now trap fh and walking With your petticoats clung to your heels like a maulkin;

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For I hope, my fair lady, you do not forget,
Though you find the thread, tis I make the net
And fay what you please, it must be allow'd,
That a woman is nothing unless a-la-mode;
Neglected the lives, and no beauty avails,
For what is a fhip without rigging or fails?
Like the diamonds when rough are the charme
you bestow,

But mine is the fetting and polishing too.
Your nymphs, with their thapes, their comple
Xons, and features,

What are they without me but poor aukward
creatures?

The rout, the affembly, the playhouse will tell,
'Tis I form the beau, and I finish the belle;
'Tis by me that those beauties must all be supply'd,
Which time has withdrawn, or which you have
deny'd;

Impartial to ali, did not I lend my aid, [trade,
Boch Venus and Cupid might throw up their
And even your Ladyship die an old maid."
To a very young LADY, with a prefent of AR-

TIFICIAL FLOWERS.

EE what great Nature's rival, Art, can do!

Sand A's as bright as in their native hue &

See the fweet jafmin its pale charms disclose,
Mix'd with the blushes of the vernal rofe!
The pink, the woodbine, here will woo thy fight,
And be at once thy wonder and delight.
Yet think how poor a pleasure they fupply,
They yield no fragrance, and but cheat the eye
Emblem inftructive of the fpecious fair,
This mock creation with thy fex compare;
Like thefe frail works of Art made up
for fhow
To falte appearance they their beauties owe,
And when the finish'd compositions fhine
In paint and dress all radiant and divine,
Happy to flaunt the pageants of an hour,
What is each charmer but a painted flower?

Adorn'd by Nature's hand with every grace
With which the crowns the brightest of thy race

a hapnch heels, now low in your pumps; Near whole fair blooming check the rival rofe,

Like the cock on the tower, that thews you the
weather,

You are hardly the fame for two days together."
Thus Beauty begun, and Mifs Fathion reply'd,
Who does most for the fex? Let it fairly be
And

look round 'em will prefently fee,
They're much lefs beholden to you than to me.
I grant it, indeed, mighty favours you hoast,
But how fcanty your favours, how searce is a
toaft?

A shape, a complexion, you confer now and then,
But to one that you give, you refufe it to ten;
In one you fucceed, in another you fail,
Here your rofe is too red, there your lily's too pale;
Or fome, feature or other is always amiss:
And pray, let me know when you finish'd a piece,
But what I was obliged to correct, or touch over,
you ever would have either husband or lover?

Lofes difcountenanc'd, and faintly glows,
While near thy breast the lily rob'd in white,
Unpraised remains, loft in a purer light;
Secure, my DELIA, in unpractis'd years
Thy youth these truths severe, unconscious hears.
Yet let a friend prevent from future harms,
And guard from their worst enemy thy charms
By Nature favour'd, then, to Nature trust;
Know thy own pow'r, and to thyself be just
Content to her each blooming grace to owe,
Seck not in Art what Art can ne'er beflow,
Ne'er let the fyren thy fond feps mislead,
Nor ten pt them in her treach'rous paths to tread
Who by falte titles all her pow'r obtains,
And counts her beauties only by her stains
But fcorning her, and ev'ry false pretence,
Affert your genuine charms and native fenfe,
Above dilgu fe, from affectation free,
As Nature form'd you, nobly dare to be.
So fhall your riper worth each heart fubdue, krad
And beauty vindicate its rights in you, god

-Lot one • A VJ Day oflet nem que os ecclefiaftical, civil, and military, took VISH LINES.TOR Y the oaths of fidelity to her Imperial Majefty, and to her fon the Great Duke Pa as her lawful heir.”

Etters from CONSTANTINOPLE bring advice, that a terrible fire happened there in the night between the 21ft and 22d of May laft, which continued burn ing very fiercely for twenty-four hours, and reduced to afhes about 500 palaces, houfes, fhops, and other buildings. By this misfortune many people loft their Lives.

They write from Venice, that the Turkish bathaw on the ifland of Candia, the ancient Crete, having lately caufed fome ground to be thrown up at the bottom of Mount Ida, a tomb was discover. ed, fuppofed to contain the afhes of one of the Grecian commanders at the fiege of Troy; but that on digging farther, they found a lubterraneous cell, in which was a human skull, and a large roll of parchment, written in Phoenician characters, which turned out to be, The history, of the Trojan war, compiled by Dictys of Crete, who is faid to have lived before Homer, and to have been fecretary to King Idomeneus at the fiege of Troy. This work is written in that ancient manner called by the Greeks Bouftrophedn; a word literally fignifying the turning of oxen. The Phoenicians wrote their lines alter

nately from right to left, and from left to right, in that refpect fimilar to the way in which ploughmen caufe the oxen to turn in order to make their furrows; from whence that kind of writing got the denomination of Bouftrophedon.

The Emperor of RUSSIA intimated his defire to be made colonel of a Pruflian regiment of foot; and the King of Pruffia his defire to have the fame office in a Ruffian regiment of dragoons. It was accordingly given out, in orders, that the Pruffian regiment of Seyburg fhould for the future be named the Emperor's. On the 3d of June the Emperor received from bis Pruffian Majefly, the complete uniform of that regiment, made to his fize; which he put on, and, as we were told by the Paris gazette of July 9. continued to appear in it every day. - A great and fudden revolution has happened in Ruffia, of which we have the following account from the London gazette.

Peterburg, July 10. Yesterday her Imperial Majefty, the Emprefs of Ruflia, was proclaimed fole and reigning Em prefs, and fovereign of the empire, by the name of Catharine the Second; and imMediately thereupon the feveral orders,

They write from the Hague, that M Grofs, the Ruffian minifter, there, prece ved by a courier from his court, on the 28th of July, the two following piece, both dated, Petersburg, June 28. 1762 O. S.

Manifefto of the Empress Catharine II. her advancement to the throne of Ruffit. CATHARINE II. by the grace of God

Emprefs and Autocratrix of all th Ruflias, &c. &c. All the true fons d Ruflia have clearly feen the great dange in fact been expofed. First, The fundato which the whole Ruffian empire hat tions of our orthodox Greek religion have been fhaken, and its traditions expo to total ruin; fo that there was abfolute hath been established in Ruffia from the ly ground to fear that the faith, which earliest times, would be entirely chan In the fecond place, The glory which ged, and a foreign religion introduced Ruilia hath acquired at the expence of b much blood, and which was carried to the greatest height by her victorious arm has been trampled under foot by the peac lately concluded with its greatest enemy. And lastly, The domeftic regulations, which are the basis of the country's wel fare, have been totally overturned.

For thefe caufes, overcome by the e minent dangers with which our faithful fubjects were threatened, and feeing how fincere and exprefs their defires were e this head, we, putting our trust in the Almighty and his divine juftice, have a fcended the Sovereign Imperial Throne of all the Ruffias, and have received a fo lemn oath of fidelity from all our faithful fubjects.

Note fent to the foreign ministers. HER Majefty the Empress, having th

day afcended the Imperial Throne of all the Ruilas, at the unanimous detire and preling inftances of all her faithfu fubjects and true patriots of this empire, bath commanded notice thereof to be g ven to all the foreign minifters refiding at her court, with an afurance of her Jme perial Majefty's invariable refolution to live in good friendship with the fovereigns their matters.

The foreign minifters fhall foon have. notice of the day when they may have her honour to pay their court, and prefent their complimen

July 1762,
Affairs in Ruffia
compliments of congratulation to her Im
perial Majefty.

The fubfequents accounts of this ex traordinary affair run thus.

The late Emperor is now faid not to have been on good terms with his Em prefs for two or three years paft. The Emprets's only brother, the reigning Prince of Anhalt Zerbit, aged 28, is a general and colonel of a regiment in the Auftrian fervice. Her mother refided on the family-eftate, which is furrounded by the King of Pruilia's dominions. It is faid, that this Princefs hath been, during the prefent war, a warm friend to the houfe of Auftria. The King of Pruflia having difcovered that the fent, from time to time, all the intelligence the could proeure to his enemies, laid her country under contribution; but the contributions not being paid when the late Empress died, his Majefty gave them up."

Petersburg, July 12. At the beginning of the ceremonies which brought about the revolution in lefs than half a day, to prevent all commotion or trouble, her Imperial Majefty thought it proper to fecure the perion of Pr. George of Hoiftein. The Emperor had been for feveral days at his palace of Oranjebaum, and the Emprefs at Peterthoff, another villa. On the 9th, at fix in the morning, her Majefty, carelessly habited, went in a common chariot, and paffed with all hafte to Petersburg. On her arrival there, the went directly to the palace, and addrefled her felf to the guards, begged them to fupport her in her enterprite. They allembled with the greatest expedition. The. other regiments, to whoin alfo the fame request had been made, formed likewile; and there forces being united in corps, proclained the Empress Catharine, fovereign and fole miftrefs of all the Rulias, declaring the Emperor Peter III. degra

ded from the throne.

After this proclamation, during which the gates of the city were fhut, the new Emprefs gave out some orders, and then went to the church of Kafan, where the affifted at divine fervice. Afterwards the received the oath of allegiance from all the grandees of the empire, afluring them, that the affumed the reins of government for the good of the country.

Some proper precautions having been taken, the Emprefs, drefled in the unt form of the guards, with a blue riband over it, mounted on horseback, and put herfelf at the head of a body of about

ro,000 men, followed by a train of artillery. With thefe the marched directly to Oranjebaum; but when the arrived there the Emperor was gone.

He had left that palace in order to go to Peterhoff, where he intended to dine? and arriving at the latter, was furprised not to find the Empress there. Being told, that the had fet out very early that morning for Petertburg, he dispatched fe veral couriers, one after another, to know the reafon; but these were all arrested.

At length fome grenadiers, disguited like pealants, found means to escape, and inform the Emperor of what had palled in the city. Defirous of faving himlels by flight, he imbarked on board a yacht, in order to pass over to Cronstadt; but was prevented from arriving there, though. we know not precifely how. He then turning to Oranjebaum. There, for his found himself under the neceility of refecurity, he caused the pealants in the neighbourhood to be aflembled, and intrenchments to be made.

While thefe things were doing, the Emprefs kept continually advancing; and when he was got not far from Peterhoff fent the Emperor word, that all refiftance being abfolutely to no purpose, he would do well to fubmit, and thereby prevent the greatest evils. The purport of this

eflage being known, the Hoftein troope in a panic threw down their arms; and the Emperor, then, judging all was loft delivered up his fworc, and stepping inhe furrendered himself. to a carriage, went to Peterfhof, where

Some perion pretend to know, that on his way thither be fpake not one word. Others aure, that he only defired his life and his poiellions in Germany. Be that night be pured, renouncing his throne, and his guard fe erely ordered not to give as it will, he was immediately flut up, the leaft antwer to any queftions he might put to them.

"Hague, Aug. 4. There is certain advice of the death of the Emperor of Ruf fia Peter III. eight days after he had been deprived of his throne. On which occas on the reigning Empress published the following manifefto.

Atharine II by the grace of God, Em

preis and Autocratrix of all the Ruf fias, greeting. The feventh day after our accelion to the throne of all the Rullias, we received information, that the late Emperor Peter III. by the means of a bloody accident in bis hinder parts, com

monly

monly called piles to which he had been formerly fubject, was fallen into a moft violent griping cholic. That, therefore, we might not be wanting in Chriftian duty, nor difobedient to the holy commandment by which we are obliged to preferve the life of our neighbour, we in mediately ordered, that he should be furnished with every thing that might be judged neceflary to prevent the dangerous confequences or that accident, and to re ftore his health by the fuccours of medicine. But, to our great regret and affiction, we learned yesterday evening, that, by the permillion of the Almighty, the late Emperor departed this life. We have therefore ordered his body to be transported to the monaftery of Newfky, in order to its being buried there. At the fame time, with our Imperial and motherly voice, we exhort our faithful fubjects, to forget and forgive what is past, to pay the last duties to his body, and to pray to God fincerely for the peace of his foul; befeeching them, however, at the fame time, to confider this unexpected and fudden death as a special effect of the divine providence, whofe decrees prepare for us, for our throne, and for our country, things only known to his holy will. Done at St Petersburg, July 7. O. S.

"Advices from Petersburg, of July 12. mention, that among those who were principally concerned in the late revolution, were the Count de Rafomowiky, Hetman of the Coflacks; Glebow, the Attorney-General; Orlow, a Major in the Guards; Teplow, a native of Holftein, and a gentleman of the bedchamber; and fome others whom the Emperor had turned out of their places. The Emprefs has ordered fore perfons, who were in favour in the late reign, to be taken into cuftody; particularly the Senator Count Woronzow, brother to the Chancellor; Gudowitz, Adjutant-General, the fame whom the Emperor fent to the King of Pruflia immediately on the death of the late Emprefs; Gen. Melgunow; Wolkow, Secretary of the Cabinet; and the Countefs of Woronzow. Some others are alio taken into cuftody; but their names are not known. According to other advices, what greatly contributed to this revolu. tion, was the offence taken by the guards and other Rullian regiments, at the partiality fhewn by the Emperor to his German troops."

[Another tranflation renders it," by an hemorrhoidal accident."]

"Other reports fay, that the Emperor had given to understand, that before he fet out to put himself at the head of h army in Germany, he would confine the Emprefs; that the fenate met on the 9th, and, after a formal debate, agreed to de pole the Emperor; that Count Rafomor fky, formerly Hetman or Grand General of the Cofacks, was the perion who ter zed the En peror. Prince George of H ftein-Gottorp, who, on the firit alarm endeavoured to make fome refiftance the head of his regin ent, received a larg cut in the head with a fabre, and was ta ken prifoner."

"The prefent Emprefs of Rulia is a bout thirty-three years of age, of a fim fize and fhape; her complexion charming her eyes bright and fignificant; her man ner of addrefs full of dignity, yet ealy and engaging, owing chiefly to a moft excel lent understanding, and lively imagin tion, which fhines in every feature, an excites the admiration of all who behold her. There is a commanding (weetnes in her voice, exprellive of great benevo lence, which fixes the attention, and w the heart; and it is with wonder that sta is fometimes feen talking with almost e very foreign minifter, in his own language. Her Majefty excels in every accompli ment that adds grace and beauty to ore fex, and is acquainted with most of the! fciences that are useful and ornamental in the other."

As to affairs in GERMANY, the follow ing particular detail of the lois in the ac tion near Caflel, on the 24th of June. [327.] was published in the London ga zette of July 13.

Grebenftine, June 28. Lift of the French prifoners taken in the affis of the 24th inftant. [328] Officers of the different regiments Royal grenadiers of Rochalambert of L'Efpinafle

Grenadiers of France

161

635 208

135

=July 1962. Lifts of the lofs in the action hear Grebenstein.

Wilhelmtbol, June 30. The following is a lift of the Killed, Wounded, and Ming of the Allied army, in the action of the 24th inftant. [378.]

BRITISH INFANTRY. Grenadier Guards. Killed: 8 rank and file. Wounded: 2 non-commiffioned officers, 25 rank and file. Miffing: 37 rank and file.

ift batt of Guards. Killed: Lt-Col, Townthend, I non-com. off. 7 rank and file. Wound"ed Capt. Middleton, 28 rank and file. MifOng Enf. Madan, I non-com. off. 30 rank and -file.list

and batt, of Guards. Wounded : 11 rank and Gle. Miffing: 12 rank and file.

3d batt. of Guards. Killed: 11 rank and file. Wounded:17 rank and file. Miffing: 17 rank and file.

Welsh's Grenadiers. Killed : 3 rank and file. Wounded: 1 non com. off. 40 rank and file. Miffing: 3 rank and file.

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Maxwell's Grenadiers. Wounded: rank and file. Miffing: Lieut Power and Irwin, 3 non com. off. 55 rank and file.

Hodg fon's regiment. Killed Lieut. Robin fon, 1 non-com off. Wounded: It rank and file.s

off.

Barrington's regiment. Wounded: 1 non-com.

Keith's Highlanders. Killed: I non-com. off. 8 rank and file. Wounded: 8 rank and file. Milling 15 rank and file.

Campbell's Highlanders. Killed : 5 rank and file, Wounded: 10 rank and file. Miffing: 32 rank and file.

Frafer's Chaleurs. Killed: 1 rank and file. Wounded: 1 non-com. off. 11 rank and file.

Artillery. Killed: Lieut. Cock, 2 rank and fileol Wounded': 2 non com. off. 3 rank and file. Miffing: 1 hon-com. off. 13 rank and file. Loft: 2 pieces of cannon, 3 ammunitionwaggonso 11344

BRITISH CAVALRY. Horfe-guards, Blue. Killed; I rank and file, hofes, Wounded: 5 rank and file, 2 horses. Elliot's Horfe. Killed: 2 rank and file. 2 holes. Wounded: 3 rank and file, 11 horses. Loft, horse.

HANOVERTAN INFANTRY. Zaftrow. Wounded: I rank and file.. Wangenheim, Killed: non.com. off. 2 rank and file, Miffing: Capt. de Wense, 3 rank and file.

Reden. Killed: 2 rank and file, Wound. ed3 tank and file. Miffing: 3 rank and file. Rhoeden. Killed: 1 non-com. off. 1 rank and file. Wounded: Lieut. Bachelly, I rank and file.

Lachevallerie. Wounded; non-com. off. Ablefeld. Killed: I non-com. off. 1 rank and le Wounded: 8 rank and file. Miffing: 2 rank and file.

LAKÒM XXIV.

581

En Artillery, Wounded tank and fitelron
Scaumb Lippert Kifled 1067/rankyands file.
Wounded non.com. off. 2 rank and file
HANOVERIAN CAVALRY
Garde du Corps. Wounded: rank and file.
Veltheim. Killed; 12 hores., Wounded:
I rank and file.

Bremer. Killed: I rank and file, & hores.
Wounded: 4 horses.

Behr. Killed: 2 horfes. Loft: i horfe Sprengel. Killed: 4 horfes. Wounded: 1 rank and file, 2 hores.

Eftorff. Killed: Cornet Hornbracht, 9 horfes. Wounded : 2 rank and file, 4 hores. Miffing: 7 rank and file. Loft 2 3 horses.

BRUNSWICK INFANTRY,
Regiment du corps. Killed: 3 rank and file,
Chaffeurs. Wounded; 1 rank and file.

HESSIAN CAVALRY

Prince Frederick. Killed: 1 non com. off. 2 rank and file, 7 horfes. Wounded: 1 noncom. off. 3 rank and file, 6 horses. Miffing: 12 rank and file. Loft: 12 horses.

Hereditary Prince. Killed: 4 horfes. Wounded: 2 non com. off. 1 rank and file. Miffing: 6 rank and file. Loft: 6 horse.

Einfzedel. Killed: 1 rank and file, 3 horses. Wounded: 3 rank and file, 4 horses. Miffing: 1 rank and file. Loft: 1 horfe

LIGHT TROOPS.
Brunfwick bufars. No lofs.

Bauer Hufars. Killed: 1 non com. off. 22 rank and file, 46 horfes. Wounded: 2 non. com. off. 19 rank and file, 20 horfes. Miffing: 53 rank and file. Loft: 59 hores.

Hanoverian Chaffeurs. Killed: 2 non-com. off. 5 rank and file, 40 horfes. Wounded: 4 non-com. off, 30 rank and file, 15 borfes. Mifling: 28 rank and file. Loft: 26 horfes

A B S TRAC T.
K. W. M. Tot.

British Troops.
Officers

Non-com. off.
Kark and file

Foreign Troops.
Officers
Non-com, off.
Rank and file