(f) The fued-for peace to Gualior's fall is due,
And Gualior's capture long was Haftings' view.
History shall tell how clos'd the scene of blood,
When, to a world oppos'd Britannia stood;
No conqueft Gallia claims on India's coast,
No fplendid triumphs can the Belgian boast.
(g) For millions wafted, and a navy lost.
The keen Maratta, and the fierce Myfore,
Their league diffolve, and give the contest o'er.

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(f) The feparate peace with Madajee Scindia was entirely owing to the capture of Gualior, and to the fubfequent operations of a detachment formed by Mr. Haftings for the exprefs purpofe of drawing Scindia from Guzzerat, to the defence of his own dominions, and as a certain means of effecting a general peace.

(g) The war in India has coft France at leaft feven millions fterling, and at the clofe of it we were in poffeffion of all the French and Dutch fettlements on the continent of India, and were behieging their forces in Cuddalore when intelligence of the peace in Europe was received at Madras. Our fleet confifted of feventeen fail of the line, in complete repair; the French of thirteen, many of which could not fwim to Europe, and the whole unfit for further fervice; for the very different manner in which we clofed the war in India, when compared with our loffes and misfortunes in the other quarters of the globe, we refer our readers to the much admired fpeeches of the present Lord Chancellor and Lord Walfingham, when Mr. Fox's India Bill was de. bated in the House of Lords,

And

And peace reftor'd, e'en party owns, tho' late, (b)
That Haftings' firmness has preferv'd the state.
Succeeding ages this great truth shall know,
A truth recorded by a generous foe, (i)

That

(b) We can all remember how much the Directors were divided at one period in their opinion of Mr. Haftings, and what stress Mr. Fox and Mr. Burke invariably laid upon this circumstance, that thirteen directors were of opinion he ought to be recalled in 1783, though ten of the fame body, and 428 proprietors, molt Arenuously fupported him. Many of the thirteen who voted his recal in 1783, were in the Direction this year, and cordially joined their brethren in an unanimous vote of thanks for his long, faithful and important fervices-This conduct is not less honourable to them than to Mr. Haftings. Mr. Dundas, in the month of May 1782, propofed a refolution to the laft House of Commons for the recal of Mr. Haftings, but he never upon any occafion defcended to perfonalities; on the contrary, he invariably fpoke of Mr. Haflings with respect, though he erroneously conceived that Mr. Haflings had forfeited the confidence of the native Princes of India, and that his recal was neceffary as a meafure preparatory to peace: happily for the exiftence of the British Empire in India, this impolitic vote was refifted; peace was concluded by Mr. Haftings; and Mr. Dundas, the head of the Board of Controul, and the Minifter for India, gave his full approbation to a vote of thanks tranfmitted last year to Mr. Haftings.

(i) Monfieur Law, late Governor of Pondicherry, in a memoir addreffed to the French minifter a few years ago, fays, “In an evil hour for France the English East India Company ap "pointed

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That England's genius, in a luckless hour
For Gallic schemes, gave Haftings fov'reign pow'r.

SKETCHES OF THE CHARACTERS OF THE RIGHT HONORABLE CHARLES JAMES FOX, AND THE

RIGHT

HONORABLE EDMUND RURKE, DELI

NEATED IN VERSE.

Oratione Grandes, Nitidi, Venufti.

JOHNSON..

CURST be the man, who in thefe dubious times.
To fordid intereft prostitutes his chimes,
And meanly ftooping to its bafe controul
Confines the fallies of a free born foul.
As curft be he, whom fear or cenfure moves
To hide his judgment of the man he loves..

"pointed Mr. Haftings Governor of Bengal;" and Monfieurs Suffrcin, in a letter to Mr. Hastings, relative to his treatment of English prifoners, fays, that he withes to explain the motives of his conduct to one, "of whom all the world speaks well;" and futely a compliment of this kind was never paid with more justice to any individual than to Mr. Haftings.-Throughout India, and Europe, the character of no man is more generally known, or more universally respected.

Say

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Say, fince the tide of Calumny runs high,
And black'ning tempefts rend the louring sky,
Shall I ignobly linger on the ftrand,

Nor dare to push my little bark from land;
But fhrink with horror from the ftrife they wage,
Nor brave the elements contentious rage?

Say, fhall the clamors of the fland'ring crew
Reprefs my feelings, and their warmth subdue ?
Parish fuch thoughts. Be mine with honeft aim,
(Not seeking profit, and not courting fame,
No dupe of party, and no flave of pow'r,
No fawning minion of the prefent hour,)
To trace with steady, but with cautious hand
Two glorious chieftains of the patriot-band,
T'expose them fairly to their country's view,
And give to merit, what is merit's due:
Yet, think not meanly with infidious veil,
I e'er will strive their failings to conceal;
No tints of mine fhall lend their fav'ring aid
To throw them backward in an artful shade,
But o'er my verfe, fince freeborn namės prefide,
Free be my verse, and dauntless truth my guide.

As in illuftrious Cofmo's princely dome,
Thy boaft, oh Florence! and thy envy Rome,
Th' admiring ftranger fees in order plac'd,
The nobleft monuments of ancient taste;

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To ev'ry different object he surveys,

He gives the tribute of a general praise;
But when at length his eyes enraptur'd view

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That faireft form which ever artist drew,

He fixes there his wonder, juft no more
He cenfures all that he had prais❜d before,
And with true tranfport feels his bosom fill,
Whene'er he views this boast of ancient skill;
Whither he frequent turns his ftraining fight,
With fresher wonder, and with new delight.
So do thy merits, Fox, tranfcendent rise,
And from thy rivals gain the glorious prize,
Who fway'd by truth, muft own thy jufter claim
To public favor, and to deathlefs fame.-

If strongest sense to manly vigor join'd,
Can chain th' attention, and convince the mind?
If language nervous, eloquent and clear
The foul can captivate, and charm the ear?
If diction (rapid as the torrent's force

'Whelming the mounds that seem to oppofe its course) Which bows all hearers to its pow'rful will,

Can raise our wonder at the speaker's skill?
If pointed elegance, and claffic wit

Can gain th' applause of those their cenfures hit?

The Statue of the Venus de Medici.