LONDON CHRONICLE, April 15 The following account, which is a real fact, sill ferve to fhew with what punctuality and exnefs the King of Pruffia attends to the moft minute affairs, and how open he is to application Som all perfons.

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N English lady being poffeffed of actions [fhares] in the Embden company, and having occafion to raise noney on them, repaired to Antwerp, and made application for that purpofe a director of the company established there by the King of Pruffia, for the maaging all affairs relative thereto. This perfon very willingly entered into treawith her; but the fum he offered to kend, being far fhort of what the actions would bear, and alfo infifting on forfeiture of her right in them, if not redeemed in twelve months. the broke off with him, and had recourfe to fome merchants at Antwerp, who were inclinable to treat with her on much more equitable terms. The proceeding neceffarily brought the parties before this director, for receiring his fanction, which was effential to the folidity of the agreement; and he, finding he was like to lofe the advantage te had flattered himfelf with, difputed he authenticity of the actions, and thereby threw her into fuch difcredit, as to render all attempts to raise money on them ineffectual. Upon this the lady wrote a letter by the common poft to his Majefty of Pruffia, accompanied with a memorial, complaining of the treatment fhe had received from the director; and likewife inclosed the actions themselves, in another letter to a friend at Berlin. By the return of the poft, his Majefty condescended to answer her letter; and the actions were returned authenticated; which fo restored her credit, that in a few hours all difficulties were removed relating to the tranfaction fhe had in hand; and it is more than probable, the director has felt his Majesty's refentment for his ill behaviour.

The lady's LETTER.
SIRE,

HAving had the happiness to pay my court to your Majefty during a pret ty long refidence at Berlin, and to re

ceive fuch marks of favour from their

Majefties the Queens as I fhall ever retain a grateful fenfe of, I prefume to flatter myfelf that your Majefty will not be offended at the refpectful liberty I take, in laying before you my complaints against one Van Ertborn, a director of the Embden china company, whose bad behaviour to me, as fet forth in my memorial, hath forced me to make a very long and expensive stay at this place: and as the confiderable intereft I have in that company may further subject me to his caprices, I cannot forbear laying my grievances at the foot of your Maje fty's throne; most respectfully fupplicating your Majefty, that you would be gracioufly pleased to give orders, that this director fhall not act towards me for the future as he hath done hitherto.

I hope for this favour from your Majefty's fovereign equity; and I shall never ceafe offering up my ardent prayers for the profperity of your glorious reign; having the honour to be, with the most refpectful zeal, Sire, your Majesty's most humble, moft obedient, and moft devoted fervant.

The King of Prufia's ANSWER.

MADAM,

Received the letter of the 19th inftant

which you thought proper to write me, and was not a little difpleased to hear of the bad behaviour of one of the directors of the Afiatic company of Embden towards you, of which you were forced to complain. I fhall direct your grievances to be examined, and have juft now dispatched my orders for that purpofe to Lentz, my prefident of the chamber of Eaft Friefland. You may affure yourself, the ftri&teft justice shall be done you, that the cafe will admit. God keep you in his holy protection. Patfdam, Feb. 26. FREDERICK. 1756.

Mr URBAN, Malling, Feb. 12. 1758. AS a catalepfy is one of the most ex

traordinary phænomena in the whole clafs of difeafes, your inferting the following cafe in your magazine, may be a means of rendering it agreeable, as well

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as ufeful, to the younger of your phyfical readers, and oblige your humble fervant, CHIRURGICUS.

Pon the 5th of December laft, J. W.

go in his head, attended with pain, nau. fea, and vomiting; all which fymptoms, the following day, greatly abated; but as a heavinefs in his head ftill continued, he loft fome blood, and soon afterwards, the ftupor increafing to a great degree, was bliftered on the back. In the morning of the next day, which was the eighth, he was feized with a catalepfy. When I came to him, he was in an erect posture, and as immoveable as a ftatue, without any fense or motion; his breath entirely uninterrupted, and his limbs moveable, but continued in the fame pofition in which you placed them. Some time after the commencement of the paroxyfm, there was fuch a violent palpitation of the heart, that it might be heard to the most distant part of the room in which he was, and which was pretty large. But notwithstanding the palpitation, the pulfe appeared very little accelerated; the colour of his face was extremely florid, and his jaws fo contracted, as to render it impoffible to open them, which I feveral times attempt ed. I thrust the point of an incifion. knife feveral times under his nails, which he appeared wholly infenfible of, and which had no other effect than caufing two or three drops of blood to appear. Neither did he seem in the leaft affected with the violent noifes which I caused to be purposely made. Some of the Sp. Sal. Ammon. I two or three times injected up his nofe, which was ineffectual. After trying in vain to excite him by almost every thing that I could devife, fuch as violent noife, pain of different forts, and the ftrongest volatile falts and fpirits, I had recourfe to caufing an hemorrhage from the nofe, which, after flowing with a thick grumous blood for the fpace of two or three minutes, had the good effect to recover the patient from the fit, after having been in it near four hours. Upon coming to himself, he fighed greatly, flared wildly about, and expreffed

the utmoft confufion and furprise, and complained of great pain in that part of his back where the veficatory had been applied, in the tops of his fingers where wounded with the incifion-knife, and in

volatile fpirits, and wounded to procure an hæmorrhage. In the evening I gave him an emollient clyfter, and adminiftered ten grains of mufk, and the fame quantity of factitious cinnabar. Next morning I gave him another bolus, and continued it every morning and night fucceffively, till I had reafon to judge him out of danger, and thought it proper to give him the following electuary.

R Cort. Peruv. 3i. Pulv. e Rad. Serp. V. 3iifs. Syr. Rofar. Solutiv. q. f. which after continuing for about a week, he was pretty well recovered, and now continues very well, except now and then a tremulous motion of the nerves. Gent. Mag.

Mr URBAN, Briftol, Feb. 24 1758. AS I was an eye-witness to the follow

ing uncommon operation, lately performed by Mr Thomas Davies, furgeon at Bristol, as also to the fuccefs of it, I flatter myself, that a juft account of it may be agreeable and inftructive to many practitioners.-Yours, &c. J. W. Enjamin Barker, feaman, of his Ma

jefty's fhip Prince Edward, aged upwards of forty, was wounded with a musket-ball in the articulation on the fore part of the right fhoulder. Twelve days after, being fent to the hofpital, the wound was immediately enlarged, in hopes of finding the ball, or other extraneous bodies; though none could be then found. In a few days several fragments of the head of the os humeri were extracted; and in less than a month, the discharge abated, and was of a good colour and confiftence, which determi ned the furgeon to incarn and cicatrize. Some time after, the patient complain ed of a violent pain in the back part of the shoulder. Upon examination, there was perceived a tendency to fuppuration; which was forwarded as fast as poffible; and at the proper time a large incifion was made, whereby a great

quantity

Happy, with thee, through flow'ry fields I'll stray,
Or wafte in pleafing toils the fummer-day;
Your fnowy flock to freshest pasture lead,
Or by the breezy shore or verdant mead
Irriguous, where the purple violets glow,
The strawberries ripen, and the roses blow;
There foft reclin'd, and banish'd ev'ry care,
I'll fing, or wreath with flow'rs thy beauteous hair.

Now all around me breathes the blushing year, Prideful the trees their flourish'd branches rear, From fragrant blooms the grateful odours rise, And rip'ning harvest glads the shepherds eyes; All nature (miles, the hill, the flow'ry field, Love, only love, no kind return can yield. Come, charming maid, for thee my bower is crown'd

With rofes, balmy woodbine breathes around;
O'er the green turf my spotless wool is caft,
And choiceft fruits afford a rich repast;
Belides, while rival nymphs my favour woo
With gifts, their gifts are all referv'd for you.
Even blooming maids have fu'd my love to gain,
And am'rous nymphs prefer their gifts in vain;
With me their charms no kind acceptance boast,
In thine alone all other charms are lost.

I burn, I burn, as woodland fhades confume,
Conceive deftruction, and affist their doom.
O when wilt thou thy killing (corn forego!
When will thy breaft an equal paffion know!
Storms cease to blufter, and the feas to roar,
Ev'n raging tempefts give their fury o'er;
Wou'd heav'n, you too were mutable as these,
And could be foften'd like relenting feas;
But deaf as rocks beat by the founding main,
You frown unmov'd, regardless of my pain.
Ye conscious echoes! vocal through the dale,
To Delia loud proclaim my mournful tale.
On all your wings, ye fanning zephyrs! bear
And breathe my forrows round the cruel fair;
Her virgin-pride my tender verfe fhall move,
And foft compaffion touch her foul with love.
Ah hapless fwain! thy Delia is not kind,
But ftern and ruthlefs as the winter-wind.
She Colin and his proffer'd love difdains,
And Colin vainly to the rocks complains.
No figh, no tear, her cruel fcorn difarms;
She claims thy life the victim of her charms.

I go, I go! compell'd by proud disdain,
Kind death is near to rid me of my pain;
Where o'er the flood projects the rocky steep,
And hoarfe below is roll'd the grumbling deep,
From its proud height my wretched weight I'll
throw,

And reft in death from love's tormenting wo.
Adieu my flocks, adieu ye groves and plains,
Now ceafe ye woods, no more refound my ftrains.
Edinburgh.
R-- C---

A SOLEMN OD E.
- at E-

Addreffed to Mifs

While ogling, fporting, futt'ring, fhining,
Amid the bowing tribe, you roam,
Unbounded conquests still designing,
Still planning worlds of joy to come;
While you, the charm of ev'ry eye,
The lovely theme of ev'ry tongue,
Infpire around the tender figh,

Or wake sweet Flatt'ry's firen-fong;
While fops with lavish raptures court thee,

And ev'ry blooming charm adore; Think, Delia, think what shall comfort thee, When thefe bright charms shall bloom no

more;

When all thy lilies fhall decline,

And all thy roses cease to glow;
When ev'n these eyes fhall cease to shine,
And wrinkles mark that polish'd brow.
Laugh not, thou pretty, trifling creature;
Like thee once poor Lucinda fhone,
With fnowy face and glowing feature;
Lo, in her fate beware thy own.
Lucinda fhone at balls and plays,
Lucinda only fought to shine,
On all alike diffus'd her rays;

(Just, Delia, like these eyes of thine).
Now fee those bloomy beauties fading,
At the rough wintry blast of age;
Behold the hoary tempeft fpreading,

On ev'ry flow'r exhausts its rage. Loft is that grace, that air so sprightly,

Which once could wake the tender flame; Thofe eyes that fhone, erewhile, fo brightly, Now caft a trembling clouded beam. Where now, ah! where, that courtly train, Lucinda's fighing slaves before? Now in her turn the fighs in vain,

Flatter'd, admir'd, and lov'd no more. Not one, the conqueft of her charms,

To chear the lonely hour remains, To cherish Age, in Friendship's arms,

To share her pleafsures, and her pairs; With more than guardian angels care,

To raise her drooping fick'ning frame,
Now pour to heav'n the tender pray'r,

Now whisper each endearing name;
And when the parting hour draws nigh,
To lay her head upon his breast,
To clofe, with trembling hand, her eye,
And footh her dying foul to rest.
Old age, my Delia, comes apace:

Scorn the wild ardors fops pretend;
Believe me, woman's truest praise,
Is to fecure a cordial friend,
Then, while improving ev'ry feature
With all the various toils of art,
O learn the graces of good-nature,
Improve the virtues of the heart.
Believe me, Folly foon destroys

The magic charm of Beauty's eyes;
Soon droop the unfupported joys,

And foon the fair inchantment flies.

Goo

Good Senfe alone, and Virtue's charms,
Can fix the heart which Beauty fires,
And Friendship still the bofom warms,
When Love's short fleeting blaze expires:
True elegance, and taste refin'd,

The temper fteady, mild, ferene,
The feeling foul, th' enlighten'd mind,
Preferve entire the happy scene...
Endow'd with thefe, Old Age defy,
And to fome friendly bolom fly;
Happy, one worthy breast to fire,
And on that bofom to expire.
Aberdeen, April 29. 1758.

PHILO.

An ODE, by the Rev. Mr CHICKEN, Chaplain of the Monmouth, on her beating the Foudroyant, Feb. 28. 1758. [215]

SLEWIS fat in regal state,

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The monarch, infolently great,
Accosts his crouching flaves;

* Yon ftubborn ifle at last must bend,
For now my Foudroyant I fend,

The terror of the waves.

When once he bursts in dreadful roar,
And vomits death from fhore to shore,
My glory to maintain,
Repenting Britons then will fee
Their folly, to contend with me
The empire of the main."

He fpake. Th' obedient fails were spread,
And Neptune rear'd his awful head,

To view the glorious fight;
The Tritons and the Nereids came,
And floated round the high-built frame,
With wonder and delight.

When NEPTUNE thus the gods addrefs'd: "The fight is noble, 'tis confefs'd,

The ftructure we admire;
But yet this monstrous pile fhall meet,
With one small ship from Britain's fleet,
And ftrike to British fire."

As from his lips the fentence flew,
Behold, his fav'rite fails in view,
And fignal made to chafe;
Swift as Camilla o'er the plain,

The Monmouth skimm'd along the main,
Unrivall❜d in the race.

Close to her mighty foe the came,
Refoly'd to fink, or gain a name,
Which Envy might admire;
Devouring guns tumultuous found,
Destructive flaughter flam'd around,
And feas appear'd in fire.

When lo! the godlike Gard'ner fell,
Whole worth the muse attempts to tell,
But finds her efforts vain;
Some other bard must fing his praife,
And bold as Fancy's thought must raise
The fadly mournful strain,
"Carket, who well his place fupply'd,
The mangling bolts of death defy'd,
Which furious round him rag'd;
• Fußt lieutenant of the Monmouth.

While Hammick † points his guns with care,
Nor fends one faithlefs shot in air,
But skilfully engag'd.

Baron and Winzar's | conduct show'd,
Their hearts with untam'd courage glow'd,
And manly rage display'd;
Whilft ev'ry feaman firmly stood,
"Midft heaps of limbs and streams of blood,
Undaunted, undismay'd.

Austin and Campbell + next, the mufe
Through fiery deluges pursues,
Serenely calm and great;

With theirs the youthful Prefton's name,
Must shine inroll'd in lists of fame,

Above the reach of fate.

Hark! how Deftruction's tempests blow,
And drive to deep defpair the foe,
Who trembling fly afunder;
The Foudroyant her horror ceas'd,
And whilst the Monmouth's fire increas'd,
Loft all her power to thunder.
Now, haughty LEWIS, ceafe to boast,
The mighty Foudroyant is loft,

And must be thine no more;
No gafconade will now avail,
Behold he trims the new-drefs'd fail,
To deck Britannia's shore.

If e'er again his voice be heard,
With British thunderbolts prepar'd,
And on thy coafts appears,

His dreadful tongue fuch founds will send,
As all the neighb'ring rocks will rend,

And shake all France with fears.

+ Second lieutenant of the Monmouth, who com、.

manded the lower

deck.

gun
Third lieutenant of ditto.
Fourth lieutenant of ditto.
** Captain of marines.
tt Lieutenant of foldiers.
#Lieutenant of marines.

The EXTENT of COOKERY.
From Dodley's collection.

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-Aliufque et idem.

Hen Tom to Cambridge firft was fent,
A plain brown bob he wore;

Read much, and look'd as though he meant
To be a fop no more.

See him to Lincoln's-inn repair,
His refolution flag;

He cherishes a length of hair,

And tucks it in a bag.

Nor Coke nor Salkeld he regards,

But gets into the house;
And foon a judge's rank rewards
His pliant votes and bows.
Adieu ye bobs! ye bags give place!
Full-bottoms come instead!
Good L-d! to fee the various ways
Of dreffing—a calf's-head.