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WHEN

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HEN cruel fate decreed that we fhould part,

Against my love, I rather should have said, My judgment yielded, but my love forbade.

O may propitious winds fill all thy fails, And never blow fierce ftorms, nor adverse gales!

O may thy Palinurus fafely steer From merc'lefs rocks and shelves, to many dear!

May dire fea-fickness ne'er thy ftomach pain!

That racking ill peculiar to the main : May Guardian Angels on thy fhip attend, And let thy tedious voyage happily end? Yet, how thy gentle manners shock' will be

With the rough feamen's naufeous com pany!

Here one will jeft in dialect uncouth, While oaths and imprecations fill his mouth; There will another, in like manner, boast How he feduc'd a maid on ev'ry coaft: For, elegance of manners, speech, or mind, In fuch fociety, thou wilt not find.

Now fettled on Jamaica's torrid foil. There let my fancy view thee for a while Not when envelop'd in the ftir of trade; But, lonely, walking in the verdant glade ; Or elfe fequefter'd in fome cool retreat, To fhun the scorching fun's meridian heat. Methinks, I fee thee, while thy willing

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"And land me fafe on Scotland's wifh'dfor fhore.

What words can paint the anguish of my « Th re let me find more dear than_for

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Can they relieve thy pain? No, they regard thy cruel smart, With view relentlefs as the heart

Of her you fue in vain.

What tho' one maid your cares reject,
And with disdain your grief neglect,

Others more kind there are;
Of far more winning charms poffefs'd,
With gentleness and softness blefs'd,
And twenty times as fair!

No more then waste the chearless night,
On mountain tops by pale moon-light,
Telling to hill and dale
How cold and cruel is your Fair,
And how he drives you to despair,
As if they heard the tale!

Your lays, 'tis true, are paffing smooth,
And might fome gentle bofom footh,
Did Cupid lend his aid:
But they no more yon rocks can move,
Than you, without the aid of love,

Can win a cruel maid.

Ceafe then to figh, and waste your youth In vowing unregarded truth,

To one ungrateful Fair:
On fome more worthy object place,
Your pref'rence and your tendern fs,
Nor yield to vain despair.

Forget the girl whofe careless heart,
Feels not like thine the tender smart,
Which real love infpires;
And chufe fome more propitious dame,
Whofe gentle breaft may own thy flame,
And burn with anfw'ring fires.

But now, because one nymph is nice,
And fate has not decreed her choice,
On thee alone to fall;
Vow not for her dear fake to die,
Nor with a foolish conftancy,
For one abandon all.

Wander not mufing on her scorn,

In folitary wilds förlörn,

Complaining of thy fate,

Breathing in mournful lays thy flame, Engraving on each tree her name Whocaus'd thy wretched ftate.

No, fince the views with cold difdain.. Your dying looks, your cruel pain,

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Audicorns your proffer'd heart;

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In whose fierce train each form is feen That drives fick Reafon to infanity! I woo thee with unu ual prayer, "Grim-vifaged, comfort efs Despair:" Approach; in me a willing victim find, Who feeks thine iron fway-and calls thee kind!

Ah! hide for ever from my fight
The faithless flatterer Hope-whofe pencil,
gay,

Port: ays fome vifion of delight,
Then bids the fairy tablet fade away;
While in dire contrast, to mine eyes
Thy phantoms, yet more hideous, rife
And Memory draws, from Pleasure's wi-
Corrofives for the heart-of fatal power?
ther'd flower,

1 bid the traitor Love, adieu !

Who to this fond, believing bofom came,
A guest infidious and untrue,
With Pity's foothing voice-in Friendship's

name.

The wounds he gave, nor Time fhall cure,.
Nor Reafon teach me to endure.
And to that breaft mild Patience pleads in
vain,

Which feels the curfe—of meriting its pain.

Yet not to me, tremendous power!
Thy worst of fpirit-wounding pangs impart,
With which, in dark conviction's hour,
Thou ftrik'st the guilty unrepentant heart!
But, of illufion long the fport,

That dreary, tranquil gloom I court,
Where my paft errors I may still deplore,
And dream of long-loft happiness no more!
To thee I give this tortured breaft,
Where Hope arifes but to fofter pain;
Ah! lull its agonies to reft!

Ah! let me never be deceiv'd again!
But callous, in thy deep repose
Behold, in long array, the woes

Of the dread future, calm and undismay'd,
Till I may claim the hope-that shall not~

fade!

THE

Monthly Regiser

For MAY,

TURKISH WAR.
Conftantinople.

T
HE Divan have published a moft
violent manifefto against the Court
of Vienna, of which all the foreign mini
fters refiding here have received a copy.

1788.

carrying 800 officers and feamen; 6 of 90, 650; 4 of 80, 600; 11 of 74, 500; 2 of 64, 400.

248 fail of frigates, floops, and tranf ports, containing 7 battalions of foot, 2 of grenadiers, 2 of chaffeurs, I of cor aques with 1000 horfes, 7 of marines.

25 victuallers and hofpital fhips, moun ting 1194 cannons, frigates and tranf ports included, and 28,000 foldiers and feamen.

greatest diftrefs in every refpect-the troops are mutinous for want of pay, and the army is ill ferved with provifions. We have even authority to fay, that the Emprefs is fo heartily tired with the war for want of the proper necef faries to carry it on, that a negociation is now on foot for France to become the Mediator for putting an end to it.

The complaints against Puffia fince the treaty of Kainardgi, particularly the hoftile invafion of the Crimea, even at the moment when the Ruffian Minifter was preffing for the conclusion of a treaty of commerce advantageous to his court; It is difficult to judge with any precithe defection of Prince Heraclius; the fion from the foreign Gazettes, as to afylum afforded to Mauro Cordato, Hof- the ftate of the Ruffian army; but we podar of Moldavia, in manifest violatione allured, that it is in a ftate of the of the laft treaty, are the motives by which the Porte juftifies her declaration of war against that power. With regard to the House of Auftria, the Porte fets forth, that for thefe fifty years paft the has carefully cultivated peace with the Court of Vienna, notwithstanding the favourable opportunities that he might have taken advantage of to recover her former influence in Hungary, particularly in the unfortunate times which followed the death of Charles the Sixth, and during the war of 1756. The Porte then enumerates the different facrifices fhe has made; fuch as the ceffion of the Buckowina, which was demanded by force, and against all right, at an unfortunate moment; the refponfibility with regard to the Barbary powers, although the Court of Vienna had, till that time, always been herfelf in treaty with thofe regencies as free and independent ftates. In fhort, the Porte fets forth, that he hath opened her ports and her rivers to the trade of Auftria, without exacting any equivalent, and all this not from weakness, but for the love of peace. The Porte concludes her manifefto with calling all the powers of Europe to witness the juftice of her caufe, fetting forth, at the fame time, that though her prefent fituation is truly critical, yet it is not above her forces.

The following is an exact lift of the Ruffian fleet deftined for the Streights, under Admiral Greig :

26 Ships of the line, viz. 3, of 196 guns, APPND. Vol. VII.No 41.

The Germans are a kind of Pfalmfinging Soldiery, flow in attack and heavy. The Turks impetuous, irregu lat, and favage.-At the time they be fieged Vienna, the Imperialifts were worsted in every rencounter with them; and it is clear, that the relief of that city was accomplished by the Polish Horfe under the direction and Generalfhip of John Sobieski.

Vienna, April 18. The fupplement to our Gazette of the 16th of this month, contains accounts of several skirmishes, that have taken place in Tranfylvania from the 19th to the 31st of March. It thence appears, that the Turks, upon the whole, evinced extraordinary alacrity in attacking fome of our pofts, though they were repulfed with confiderable lofs on their fide, and very little on ours. In Croatia they evinced no less activity.

Vienna, April 30. On the 18th inftant, the Emperor arrived at Klerisk, a frontier fortrels oppofite to Schabatz, before which the Auftrians were drawn up preparatory to the fiege of it.

On the night of the 23d, the approach es being made, the batteries were railed, and his Imperial Majefty arrived at the H

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camp the next morning at day-break, foon after which the batteries were opened; but the Emperor perceiving that the fide next the river was the most convenient for a general affault, a detachment of the Free-corps of Servia, and the Riflemen of the regiment of Petes waradin, were ordered to advance, rovered by the regiment of Efterhazy. This attack proved fuccefsful, the enemy being foon obliged to retire to the Citadel, when the Emperor, defirous to fpare the effufion of human blood, and touched with compaffion for the women and children, ordered the garrifon to be fummoned to furrender, which they did immediately at difcretion, and were declared prifoners of war; but, in confideration of the brave defence they had made, his Imperial Majefty permitted their wives and children to retire, with their effects, to Zwornick.

The garrifon confifted of the Aga of the Janiffaries, Mahomed, Command in Chief, and several other Agas, with fifteen other Officers, and about 800 men, horfe and foot. There were found in the fort feventeen pieces of cannon of different fizes, and twenty pair of colours.

If the Turks fhould triumph, what muft hiflorians fay of the man who mar ched to meet the late King of Pruffia, and marched back again?-who fhut up the Scheld and opened it ?-who bullied the Dutch and coaxed them?-what can they fay, but that Jofeph was a man, and a very common man too.

Courts in Europe from the year 1779, when he was elected Prefident of the Proteftant Affociations the confequen. ces of that public fituation, maintained for fo long a period the manner in which he had confiantly exerted the influence acquired by such perseverance

the notions he entertains of the difcon tents and commotions now exifting in France, and the origin to which they might be traced the calamities likely to be drawn upon the people of many go vernments by the warlike negociations of nation against nation now carrying on throughout Europe, in confequence of the Emprefs of Ruffia's breach of the peace the complaint he makes of being profecuted by the Court of Verfailles, and his defire for peace and quietness on juft and righteous grounds the reafons for the bad terms on which it has been his misfortune to ftand with all the diffe rent Minifters at St. James's from the year 1779, to the prefent hour-the ori gin of the prefecution he had experien ced from the Court of France, not being publicly known, and it having hitherto been attributed to his disapprobation of the late commercial incorporating treaty, and fome publications in a news-paper in favour of ComteCagliostro and Prince Louis de Rohan, and other Princes and Nobles who fuffer in the Baftile, and in exile.--The memorial attributes the origin of the refentment of the Cabinet of Verfailles againft him to a tranfaction relating to the United Sates of Americathe motives he affigns for feeking that repofe in Amfterdam which was denied to him in London-the conduct of the Marquis de Verac, the French Ambaflador, upon the fuppofition that Lord George Gordon was come to Amfterdam on purpose to favour the Prince of Orange's caufe in the provinces his return to England, and doing every thing that an honest man could do (as his noA fmall publication is circulating in ble relations can teftify) to be reconcil Paris, among the friends of Comte Caged in righteoufnefs to perfons in high offioftro, and the oppofing Parliaments, fices, but without effect-his being dragwhich is ftiled "The memorial which ged from retirement and privacy, where "the Right Honourable Lord George Le was fecreted and not known, to his "Gordon has written in the prifon of prefent confinement, among thieves and "Newgate, and diftributed among the murderers, in Newgate, to the great in"friends of Liberty in France, to call jury of his own health, and the difgrace "the general attention to the peculiar of his noble family. The memorial "circumftances of the prefent fituation clofes with his determination not to mur of their affairs." It lets forth, in the mur against the Almighty in his affli manner of a reinonftrance, the continu- tions, declaring the law of God to be in ed perfecution, troubles, abuse, and mif- his heart, and praying for deliverance for representation he had experienced from hirfelf and his friends. It seems to the fervants and Ecclefiaftics of different have been written foon after his confine

HOLLAND.

The Pruffian troops on the 29th of April evacuated the poft they held at Amfterdam fince the month of October, and began their march in conjunction with other troops that had been posted in the environs of that city, towards their own country.

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of humilation fuited to the ill health he, suffered from being purfued from place to place, and lifted from prifon to prifon in the depth of winter. The novelty and furprize of a printed publication from Newgate circulating in Paris, naturally excites the curiofity of the French readSeveral copies are in the hands of Lord George's friends in London, and one was fent to the Attorney General for the information of his Majefty's Council. Paris. On the 18th April died George Le Clerk, Count de Buffon, Lord of Mootbart, Marquis of Rougemont, Vif count of Quincy, Intendant of the King's gardens, and cabinets of natural hillory, member of the French Academy of Sciences: Fellow of the Royal Society of London, and of the Royal and Literary Societies of Berlin, Peterburgh, Bologna, Florence, Edinburgh, Philadel. phia, Dijon, &c. He was one of the moft elegant writers in France, in point of ftyle; a man of uncommon genius, and furprising eloquence: the most aftonishing interpreter of nature, that perhaps ever exifted. He might have faid, Je ne dois qu' a moi feul route ma renominee. Pofterity will certainly place him amongst the greatest inen that have adorned Louis the XIVth's age. He was buried at St Medard.

ment in Newgate, as it breathes a fpirit. It would be a ftrarge conftitution indeed to reduce the King's will and authority to an equality with the opinion of one of his officers! Such a form of Government would introduce as many different ways of thinking, as there fhould be different deliberations in the divers Courts of juice in a kingdom. I must certain ly, gentlemen, prevent fuch a misfortune befalling the nation. The 19th of November every thing was tranfacted in a legal way. The deliberation was compleat, fince all your opinions were heard. The votes were not told because I was prefent, and the majority of voices muft never be apparent, when it has not a right to preponderate. Whenever I come to hold a fitting in my Parliament, on a fubject of adminiftration or legiflation, there must be an Arret, and it is his majefty that ordered it to be pronounced. The arrets or refolutions of my Parlicment were therefore highly reprchenfible, and I order you again never to publifh any thing of the kind for the future. It is not my intention to alter your regifter books or your refolutions, but to rectify them, and expunge an error, which I am willing to impute to an unguarded moment of fuprife, or to a peremptory illufion. How many laws may you find extremely ufeful and falutary to the nation, and which are daily approved of by your judgments that are entirely derived from the Monarch's authority, who had them registered, not only without any regard to the majority of voices, but even against that majority, and in fpite of the reluctance and refiftance of all the Par liaments? These are the principles that ought to regulate your conduct; and I fhall never fuffer them to be, in the fmalleft degree, infringed.

Tofome new and fpirited remonftrances published by the the Parliament of Paris, his Majefty fent the following answer on the 19th of April:

"I have read your cemonftrances, and it is my with to anfwer them with fuch precifion, that you may no longer doubt of my intentions, nor again at tempt to thwart them. It was quite unneceffary to speak to me of the prefcription of regiftering, or the liberty of fuffrages. When I come to my Parliament, it is with a view to be prefent at the debates naturally refulting from examining the law I purpofe to enact; and to determine upon having it registered after a proper difcuffion, which may throw new lights upon the matter in queflion. This is what I did the 19th of November laft: I heard every member's opinion, but when I am not prefent at your deliberations, then the majority alone can acquaint me with the refult of them. When I am prefent, I am the only proper judge; for if the majority of voices in my courts were to force my will, monarchy would than become an ariftocracy, quite contrary to the rights and interefts of the nation, and to thofe of fovereignty.

21. The recalling of the Duke of Orleans, who has been here laft Wednefday, diffufed an undefcribable joy a mong every clafs of individuals. His firft vifit, after his return, was to his Majefly at Verfailles. Not the leaft disturbance

in the ftreets adjacent to the Palais Royal has happened. Proper care had been taken, perhaps, for maintaining order; or, the people tired with unfuccesful expectations two or three times, gave no credit to the report of his Highnefs being recalled.

The Parliament of Paris may be faid to be annihilated, as its functions are abridged, and fome of them transferred to a Court which had, many years fince. fallen into difufe, but is now revived and re-cftablished. At his bed of justice, held

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