Make then, while yet ye may, your God your friend, And learn with equal cafe to fleep or die! Nor think the Mufe, whofe fober voice ye hear, Contracts with bigot frown her fullen brow; Cafts round Religion's orb the mists of fear, Or fhades with horrors what with fimiles fhould glow. No, he would warm you with feraphic fire, Heirs as ye are of heav'n's eternal day;" Would bid you boldly to that heav'n afpire, Not fink and flumber in your cells of clay, Know, ye were form'd to range yon azure field, In yon ethereal founts of blifs to lave; Force then, fecure in Faith's protecting field, The fting from death, the viet'ry from the grave... Is this the bigot's rant? Away, ye vain, [fleep: Your hopes, your fears, in doubt, in dulnefs Go footh your fouls in fickness, grief, or pain, With the fad folace of eternal sleep. Yet will I praise you, triflers as ye are, [ereed, More than thofe preachers of your fav'rite Who proudly swell the brazen throat of War, Who form the Phalanx, bid the battle bleed; Nor with for more: who conquer, but to die. Hear, Folly, hear; and triumph in the tale: Like you, they reafon; not, like you, enjoy The breeze of bliss that fills your filken fail! On Pleafare's glittring ftream ye gayly fleens Your little courfe to cold Oblivion's thore: They dare the ftorm, and, through th’inclement **year," Stem the rough furge, and brave the torrent's roar. rife, That lift the hero from the fighting croud. Is it his grasp of empire to extend? To curb the fury of infulting foes? Ambition, ceafe: the idle conteft end: 'Tis but a kingdom thou canst win or lofe. And why must murder'd myriads lose their all, (If life be all) why Defolation lour, With familh'd frown, on this affrighted ball, That thou may'ft flame the meteor of an hour? Go wifer ye, that flutter life away, Crown with the mantling juice the goblet high Weave the light dance with festive freedom gay, And live your moment, since the next ye dic. In a book of French verses, intitled, OeuvresTM du Philofophe de Sans-fouci, and lately reprinted at Berlin by authority, under the iitle of Poefies Diverses, may be found an epiftle to Marfbal Keith, written profeffedly against the immortality of the faul, of which our readers bave feen a fpecimen {xxii. 423,]. It is to this epifile that the rest of the elegy alludes.then Yet know, vain fcèptics, know th’Almighty Mind, Shall be by all or fuffer'd not enjoy'd, b'di Our hours (and who can do it less in!) By Hecatiffa fpent in dreifing "</ Herfelf in all her airs to show, this": And grace the affembly of Soho. vlas See her whole wardrobe's pomp display'd, Of lace, of tiffue, and brocade sand) violet Ribands of more various huemet LillThan heav'nly Iris ever knew, In knots more puzzl'd and perplex?dam bra Than that which Alexander vex'd, VED To raise her head to all beholdersmak u f Distortion lurking at her back ng st. Bolfter'd and prefs'd from place to place, a Fixes more firmly in her face.vst! "Betty! without flatt'ry, tell me, pray!” Ma'am, you look charmingly to-day." Thus deck'd, the mincing mawkin walks, You'd fwear 'twas nature in the stocks, or Sure to attract the eyes of all, The jeft and pity of the ball.i W prepares, ¿T A four-hours Speech thus To hold the fte by the cars A fpeech made with fuch labour'd cafe, In oppofition to the peace; With penfion'd patriotifm ting'd, Be-flounc'd, be-furbelow'd, and fring'd With figures, metaphors, and tropes, T'express his doubts, his fears, his bopes: The stiff, ftarch'd, ftalking, flately flyle With ornaments that make us mile Reveals too plain to ev'ry eyet, så Political deformity, Faction in cv'ry feature flares, Herfelf now openly declares, Drawn from the covert of her cell, Like truth from bottom of a well Drefs'd and difguis'd with ev'ry trick Of patriotic rhetorick, Each fop, in wonder as the goes, Infers confufion to her foes. Dec. 1961. POETICAL ESSAYS. ODE for the NEW YEAR 1763. sule valpommi016'vss of Afields to the Fates their ebonicar, And frowning quits his coil evid With heart of feel, and eyes of fire, To Stygian depths retire. Unholy fhapes, and fhadows drear, The pallid family of Fear, รว And Rapine, fill by thrieks purfu'd," *II. For lo, in yonder pregnant skies Whofe prefence breathes delight! And half her shades the Night, And Jove refum'd the throne. III. [fails, And fee, to grace that milder reign, That float on Time's progreffive wing, J From Parent Worth what virtues flow! The warrior's unrelenting rage, The storms and earthquakes of their age, A monarch, Delpife, whose parental way regal art, His fhield, the laws which guard the land, His word, each Briton's eager hand, 663 His throne, each Briton's heart." W By the late Archdeacon PARNELL. Not yet printed in bis Works! Ith moral tale let ancient wifdom move, wife. Which best contriv❜d to do the nation good. By this, he cries, I'll make the people reign. With loaded boughs the fruitful OLIVE spread. Or in the calm which peaceful times bestow. Gay trophies won, and fame extending wide; But plenty, fafety, fcience, arts, and cafe, Minerva's fcale with greater weight fupply'd. Fierce War devours whom gentle Peace would fave; Sweet Peace reftores what angry War destroys; War made for Peace, with that rewards the brave, While Peace its pleasures from itself enjoys, Hence vanquish'd Neptune to the fea withdrew, Hence wife Minerva rul'd Athenian lands; Her Athens hence in arts and bonours grew, And still her Olives deck, pacific hands. From fables thus disclos'd, a monarch's mind May form just rules to chufe the truly great, And fubjects, weary'd with diftreffes, find Whofe kind endeavours most befreind tie fate- Whom beft Europa's patronefs it calls, Whene'er the pleas'd, her troops to conque *** s 5 ant radion k DELIA to LUCTO. »??* DEar object of a love, whofe fond excefs No fudied forms of language can exprefs, Turn, hopelets thought, from whence my for... My thought rebels, and wakens ev'ry wo: Can ought retrieve this fad reverse of fate? What notes fo fweet to this frail heart that ("Or the rapt feraph's that adores, and burns," ༈ to All gracious God, indulgently fevere, >< O may I meet my Lucio in that place, - Dec. 1762. 3 Affairs in the North. HISTORY. WE have the two following articles from Warfaw, capital of POLAND. "Oct. 18. The Emprefs of Ruthia has juft informed his Polish Majefty, that the King of Pruilia bas caufed it to be declared to her by his minister, that he could not confent to the respective evacuation of Saxony. [546]. Her Imperial Majefty adds that this first refutal would not hinder her from making fresh endeavours to procure Saxony an advantage of which it ftands in fo much need, and which, befides, might accelerate a general pacification." "Nov. 13. The new bafhaw of Chochem has fent a perfon hither to the great general of Podolia, and young Pr. Czar torinski, to assure them, that he has orders from the Porte to live in the stricteft amity, and preferve the best correspondence, with the republic. This envoy has accordingly had his audience of both these gentlemen." According to latest accounts, the court of RUSSIA was ftill at Mofcow. A confpiracy against the Emprefs has been difcovered there, in which two lieutenants and a quartermaster of the Izmayloff guards, a lieutenant of the Ingermanland regiment, and an affeffor, were concerned. The fenate condemned them all to lose their beads; but her Imperial Majefty was pleased to mitigate their punithment. Two of them were to be publicly knouted, and then fent to prifon in Camchatka; two to be sent into banishment to Jakutska; and the other one to be banish ed to his own eftates for life. It may be generally known, that from the time of the late Empress Elifabeth's afcending the throne to the prefent, the punishment of death has been in difufage throughout the empire; but the abufe which that lenity occafioned, has induced the high tribunal to give notice, that the laws which prefcribe that punishment for certain crimes, will be again put in force. A letter from Moscow of Nov. 10. runs thus. "The Grand Duke's bad ftate of health made us uneafy for some time, but he is now entirely recovered. We are assured, that during his illness her Imperial Majefty made a vow to found an hofpital, in order to obtain of Heaven the recovery of this young prince. If the vow be performed, it will be the first monument erected in Ruffia for the pre fervation of the human fpecies."Late advices bore, VOL. XXIV. 665 that neither the Baron de Breteuil from France, nor the Marquis d'Almadovar from Spain, had been admitted to an audience, nor acknowledged in the quality of public minifters, because they refused to give the title of Imperial to her Majesty. It may not be amifs to take notice on this occafion, that, on the fame account, the French minifter could not obtain an audience of the late Emperor Peter III.; an that about the very time of his being dethraned, the Rudian minister at Paris was making reprefentations on the head, and declaring he would return home if he did not receive fatisfaction; on which the French miniftry told him, that no title could give fuch dignity to a fovereign of Rutha as that of Czar. - There are accounts from Mofeow, that the Empress having been fome time ago informed that the Tartars continued in motion, and that their ob ject was not very clear, had ordered fome regiments to advance to the frontiers.On the 17th of October a fire happened at Archangel, which confumed the tarwarehouses, containing 300,000 barrels; a lofs that will be felt in more countries than Ruffia. About the beginning of December, the King of SWEDEN caufed a circular letter to be published throughout the feveral provinces of that kingdom, ordering a reduction of its forces. Repeated advices affure, that the King of DENMARK has entirely defifted from his claim to be co-administrator of the territory in Holstein belonging to the Grand Duke of Ruffia. It is added, that Pr. George of Holftein, the Grand Duke's uncle, was to go, on new-year's-day, to refide at Kiel, in quality of Stadtholder. In regard to the affairs of GERMANY the King of Prulia being arrived in Saxeny, as was taken notice of in our laft, he went to view the field of the battle fought the 29th of October [609.]. To exprefs his grateful fente of Pr. Henry's fervices, he made him a prefent, with reverfion to his Princess, of an estate of 40,000 crowns a-year, which fell to his Majesty by the death of the Margrave Charles. About the end of November, a convention for a ceflation of hoftilities between the Austrians and Pruffians, in both Saxony and Silefia, during the winter, was agreed on. In the latter country, and on its frontiers, the troops of both fides went quietly into winter-quarters. In Saxony, a part of the Pruflian troops 4 $ formed formed a chain for their greater Vecurity at all events but a large body of the had previously been put in motion, to if Dec. 6. If the 16,000 men under Gen. Kleist fhould be foon reinforced (which we find they may easily be) by the 10,000 if the Prince vade the dominions of thole princes who under Gen. Neuwied, and Bohemia, had furnithed troops to the army of the Empire, or otherwife fhewed their at tachment to the Empress Queen's caufe. As most of the Imperial and Auftrian troops were at a great distance, a gene rab alarm was immediately spread. They who had the keeping of fome Pruflian, Hanoverian, Hellian, and Brunswick ho• Stages, at Nuremberg, fent them off for Ratisbon, where the diet of the Empire fits, was a place in which it was fuppofed they would be fecure; but the magiftrates of this latter city fent a courier to meet thofe who conducted them, and let them know, that they could not be received. The hoftages were therefore fent to Augfburg. Baron Plotho, the Brandenburg minifter at the diet, informed the other minifters, "That as all his master's declarations to the estates of the Empire had produced no effect, he was now refolved to employ more effectual means to make them recall their troops from the Auftrian army; and was accordingly marching three different corps, one of which had already entered Franconia, the fecond was taking the route of Swabia, and the third would pass through Bavaria; that they would every where conduct themfelves according to the exigencies of war; but that as to the diet of the Empire, he had orders to give affurance that it should not be in the least disturbed." On the 25th of November, the deputies of Ratisbon, as well as thofe of the grand chapter, &c. repaired to Baron Plotho, to know what was to be expected with respect to that city. He told them, "That fo foon as the Pruffians appeared at the gates, and demanded hoftages for treating of contributions, they had beft comply, without waiting for extremities." The Pruffian troops actually spread them felves over all Franconia, raifing heavy contributions on the petty princes, bihopricks, abbacies, cities, and towns; Nuremberg, for inftance, was taxed at 2,500,000 crowns. Part of this was im mediately paid down; and hoftages were given for the remainder. The Pruffians alfo carried off from thence twelve fine brafs cannon, and fix waggons loaded with military ftores, betides 2000 piftols. Some of their parties alfo entered Swabia, and spread an alarm as far as Ulm and elber The three following-ar psisare from Ratisbon of Stolberg, who is ftill Dec. 13. The Emperor's commissary has just received a letter from the Prince of Stoiberg, importing, that he was ma king forced marches, not only with the army of the Empire, but with a large bo dy of Auftrian troops, who increafed dai ly, to attack the enemy which are in Franconia, and oblige them to retire." "Dec. 23. Bavaria has made its peace with Pruflia. The convention of neu trality for that circle was figned the 17th The circle of Swabia, affembled at Ulm, has taken a like resolution. It is thought that other circles will immediately follow their example." In confequence of preliminary articles of peace between G. Britain, France, &c. being figned, the Allied and French ar mies in Hele fell gradually back from one another. On the 17th of November twenty battalions and thirty fquadrons that had been of the Prince of Conde's divifion, then immediately under the Mar quis de Montegnard, feparated from the main army, and marched for the Lower Rhine. From thence a good many troops actually returned to France. Ziegen. hayn, Marburg, and Gieffen, began to be evacuated by the French on the 17th The Britifh troops, we are informed, are to march through Weftphalia, and the Dutch territories, to Williamftadt, where they will fucceflively imbark. recover The hereditary Prince of Brunswick arrived at Pr. Ferdinand's head-quarters the cth of November, perfectly ed of his wounds. A letter from War burg, of Nov. 27. faid, that the Mar quis of Granby was taken ill at that place, but not dangercully. We wer |