27, by adding 151 years and 99 days, brings us to the 23d of January, 19, O. S. or the 3d of February, S. for the time of its next perihelion. this fuppofition is right, it will crofs ecliptic about the 12th of Novemnext, in Taurus 17: 44. You know me too well to imagine t I offer this as any thing more than jecture. The hiftory of comets is I too imperfect to build any thing of tainty upon, and past observations limited to enable us to point out ir future appearances. ew way of procuring the ELECTRI- Everal perfons concerned in electrical n a leaf of that fort of talk com. bar continued electrified. The next day, upon examining the leaf of talk, he perceived there were fome cracks, and two fmall round holes in it; then he placed it on the bar, and preffing his finger on a part of it which was a good distance from the holes and cracks, he drew a fpark with the other hand, and felt the commotion: yet, though he placed it between the plates with all poffible attention and care, he could not fucceed in piercing the card. He then cut off the cracked part, and thereby reduced the leaf to three inches fquare, which he all round. In this condition he employgilt on both fides, leaving a bare border ed it again with fuccefs, both in the Leyden experiment, and in piercing the card. Gent. Mag. VERSES by the late ingenious but unhappy While yet his praifes, in their pride difplay'd, fense: While learned pens with bloating praise deceive, As from the mountain-rocks fresh fountains roll. 4 G Truth, Truth, too, fo ftrongly fways thy cautious It hides no virtue, though it spares no fault : LATITIA PILKINGTON. The YOUNG COQUETTE. B With Kitty, for a fparkling eye, UT few (I may fay none) could vie For blooming youth and beauty; You'll think that man fupremely blets'd, Pray hold your tongue, dear Kitty; Cries the, My dear Mifs Fanny, Improves their fenfe and reafon; Is always moft difpleafing. Though witlings vain contemn him, Whofe own words ne'er condemu him? No! no! I'll never barter My liberty of fpeech for fame, To yield that female charter. George's, Temple Bar, W. K. On the death of Lord Howe. [442.] Britannia mourns her youthful hero flain, And forrows flow thro' all her martial train: Albion with fecret pride her fon beheld, Voluptuous eafe his manly breast abhorr'd: Oft has America extoll'd his care But ceafe your forrows, Britons, weep no more; 'Tis done! brave Richard to the fight returns On Mrs HARVEY's tomb in Twickenham chinch FA Air, kind, and true; a treafure each alone, On hearing a lady unknown to the author, fing,'ad W Hene'er the firikes the vocal strings, All ear, I listen to the lay; And And as with fweeter voice the fings, Ev'a care is harmoniz'd away. Ɔn whom did lavish heav'n bestow That hand, that foul-inchanting tongue? Ah! gentle franger ! did I know, Thyself were not a theme unfung. Friend to the virtues of the fair, The mufe thy art to fame would raise : 3e Delia, then, thy nomme-de-guerre, And this my earliest song of praise. paraphrafe of the 137th pfalm; a juvenile perormance of a Suffer gentleman. Gr. Mag. ΨΑΛΜΟΥ ροζ. Παράφρασις. Ζομε θα ψαμάθες ἀμφ' Ευφρήταο ρέεθρα Δάκρυσι δεύοντες, τὰ καλείβετο πολλὰ παρειών εῖν κυρομένοις & μνησαμένοισιν ἐκείνα κατος, ἀλγίσει πάντων ἃ πολ ̓ εἴδομεν ἡμεῖς, με λύθη τὰ Σιῶνος ἐπηρατε ἴρα κάρηνα. Οὐκέτι τοι φόρμιγγες ὑπὸ μελίγηρυν ἱεῖσιν, Ενος δ ̓ ὅζοίσιν ἔπι κρεμόων ο σιωπῇ· ματα γὰρ πάντως ᾠδῆς ἐξείλετ ̓ ἔρωΐα, προς τ' ὠδινεσσιν ἐληλατο θυμὸς ἑκάτε. Αὐτὰρ δυσμενέες, Σολύμην οἳ δίαν ἔπερσαν, δ ̓ ἅγιον συἱερῷ λαὸν δαμάσαντες ἀρηϊ ξαν, πολλ ̓ ἀέκοντα, φίλης ἀπὸ πατρίδος αίης, δύ τε καγχαλόων, ἐπέεσσί τε κερτομίοισιν μέσσαις ἦτευν ὀδύναις καὶ πένθει ἀπλήτῳ αλπέν, Γηθοσύνης γέ κασιγνήτην τάρην τε. * Τίπτε νύν, ̓Αβραμίδαι, ἀνέω γεγένησθε φίλυμνοις τίε λύρας κατέχεσ ̓ ὧδ ̓ ὅλοι πένθιμ ̓ ἀγώνες; ἡ δ ̓ ἔβαν εὐχωλαί, ὅτε δὴ φατέ γ' ἔμμεν ἀοιδῶν έρτατοι, ὅσσοι έασιν ἐπὶ χθονὰ πολυβότειραν ; ! δ' ἀγελε, λιγυρὴν χορδῇσιν ἐγείρεῖ ἀοιδὴν πλλεβόαις κιθαρῶν, οἵας μέλψασθε ταμείας ὁ πρὶν ἐπ' εἰρήνης, πρὶν πορθῆναι πόλιν ὑμὴν, λείοντες τὸν Ἰάω· ὁδὲ φρενὰ τερπεῖ ἀκυων.” Πῶς δὲ Θεῶ γ' ἐςὶ γλυἱερὴν ἐντυνέμεν ᾠδὴν αῖαν ἐπ' ὀθνείην, θεὸς ὡς ὅταν αὐτὸς ἔθηκεν Γινες ἐν κραδίης, ἐν ἐν περικαλλει νηῷ; [ῶς τ' ᾄδειν δύναται πένθει βεβολημένος ἀνὴρ; ᾶσα μέλημα βροιῶν τὸν ἀκηδέὰ θυμὸν ἐχόντων· νάκρυα δὲ ςονα χαί τε φίλαι κακὰ τὸσσα λαχῦσιν, Οσσ' ἡμεῖς λάχομεν, θεόθεν μας ιδι δαμένιες. «Ω πατρὶς, ὦ Σολύμης ζάθεον πέδον αἶνὰ παθέσης, εἴτε σέθιν λήθωμαι, ἰδ' ἐκ θυμοῖο διαρρής, αὐτίκ ̓ ἀμερθείη κιθαρισύος ἧφι κέκαςο Δεξιτερὴ τὸ πάρος· Γλώσσην δὲ διαμπερὲς αἱροῖ Αμφασίη ἐπέων ὑπερών προσπεφυυίαν, εἴ ποτε γηθήσει κραδίη ςήθεσσι φίλοισι, Τρὶν θεὸν ἐκ δηΐων ἡμέας ὑβρεώς τε βίης τε Εύσασθαι, πάτρης πρὶν τὸ ὄμμασι τῆς τριποθήτης Πύργος φαίνεσθαι κλιμένες πάλιν, ἐρανομήκεις. Μνῆσαι Ἰδημαίων ἱερὴ Βίη ̓Αθανάτοιο, Μνῆσαι "Αναξ Σολύμης γὰρ ἐπ' αἴσῃ δακρυοέσση Καίρονίες βοόωντο, Πυρὶ σμυχοιτο κατ' ἄκρης Οβρυόεσσα Σιών, πυρὶ νῦν σμύχοιτο κατ ̓ ἄκρης. "Α δειλὴ Βαβυλών, σε κιχήσεται αἰπὺς ὄλεθρος, Καὶ τὸ κακῶν σε τάχα φρικτον νέφος ἀμφικαλύψει Ω μάκαρ, ὅσις ἀπὸ χρείος πᾶν σήσει ̓ ὀπίσσω Ημέτερον, και τοί κε παλίντιζα ἔργα τελέσσει Ω μάκαρ, ὃς νηλεῖς ἐπὶ τέκνοις χεῖρας ἰάλλων Νηπιάχοις, κάψει πολύ μαρμάρῳ ἐκριόεντι, Αὐτῶν ἐγκεφάλῳ δεύων ἐδ αἵματι γαῖαν. 531 To the author of the SCOTS MAGAZINE. HE celebrated critic Longinus, gives it as This opinion, that if the great men of anti quity were alive to explain themfelves, the feeming inconfiftencies and imperfections in their works, might be reconciled, and made appear to be great beauties. It is therefore but doing juftice to the great authors that are yet living, and a kindness to ourselves, to start our difficulties to nity of explaining themselves as much to their them; that they may at once have an opportuown advantage as they can, and of freeing us from the trouble of forming fruitless conjectures. From this confideration therefore it is, that I would ask the author of Douglas, whether he was fleeping or waking when he had the dream, which is the fubject of his poem published in your last Magazine [421.]. The molt obvious fuppofition indeed is, that he was awake; because he tells us nothing to the contrary: for though dreams be the natural and peculiar effects of fleep, yet a waking dream is no fuch prodigy. But, neverthelets, I have no difficulty to fuppofe, that he had fallen afl ep before his vifion came upon him: and, upon fuch fuppofition, I am so far from thinking his omitting to inform us of that circumftance a defect, that I rather look upon it as a piece of very great propriety; becaule, as fleep feals on us to imperceptibly, that we are not fenfible of any intermediate state betwixt fleeping and waking, but are feized upon before we are aware of it; fo it was very well judged in our author, to make the fame infenfible tranfition from waking to fleeping in his poem, that he did in his bed. If this was his intention, I confefs he has executed it fo well, that, in all the perufal, I did not fo much as think of fleep, till the dream, which concludes the whole, put me in mind of it. But as my conjectures, how ingenious foever they may be, will not, cannot be 10 fatisfactory, as if the author would explain himfelf, it is therefore hoped, that, upon your publishing this letter, he will oblige the public with a folution of this queftion; or if he decline to do fo, that his filence may be conftrued as an acquiefcence in the ingenuity and jufinefs of my animadverfion, upon the fuppofition of his having fallen afleep previous to his dream. How reafonable foever the grudge may be, which authors entertain at critics in general; yet, as beauties that are not underfood, never fail to pals for abfurdities and imperfections, a judicious and candid critic, whole province it is to deliver them from there difadvantages, is of incftimable value; not to mention that authors have often owed a great many beauties to this clafs of mortais, which they themselves never thought of. I do not by all this mean to infinuate, that the author of Douglas owes the propriety I have pointed out in his poem to my invention; but I humbly conceive, the merit of difcovering it may be entirely afcribed to the perfpicacity of Tours, &c. Leith, Sept. 28. [420.] 4 G 2 WILL. [P. S.] [P. S.] ODE for his Majefty's birthday, 1758. By William Whitehead, Efq; Poet-Laureat. ARGUMENT. About the year 963, Ottoberto, of the family of Efte, palled from Italy into Germany with the Emperor Otho the Great. Azo, bis defcendent in the next century, by a marriage with the daugh ter of Welfus Count Altdorf, inherited the dominions of that family in Suabia. Weltus, a fon of that marriage, in the year 1061, received the dukedom of Bavaria from the Emperor HenTy IV. The defcendents of Welfus became afterwards poffefed of thofe duchies which lie between the Elbe and the Wefer, (Brunfwick, Wol fenbuttle, Lunenburg, Zell, Hanover, &c.); and in the year 1714, George I. Duke and Elector of Hanover, fucceeded to the throne of Great Britain Nor warring winds, nor wintry feas Shall ftop the progrefs Fate decrees: For lo! Britannia calls, to happier coafts And vales more verdant far than foft Atefte boath! V. J But now each Briton's glowing tongue The shortness of a Nestor's age! On a YOUNG LADY buried at Long Backy in Northamptonfire. Irgin lamented much! about whole life Contending heav'n and earth belê equal ftrife! Each lov'd thee! but, whate'er thy parents boat, Heav'n, which was pleas'd to take thee, lovd thee moft. Epitaph on a SCOLDING WIFE He finds, repofe at laft, and fo de L Ere refts my wife; poor Phillis! let her is. century. He united in bis own perfom the herafitary dominions of five families. His claims ap Italy bindered him from joining with the Expert Frederic 1. in his third attack upon the Pope, theng he had affifted him in the two former. For och he was stripped of his dominions by that Empor and he died in 1895, possessed only of these duches which lie between the Elbe and the Wefer. From this Henry, and a fifter or daughter Henry II of England, his present Mojesty is &really defcended. HISTORY. LL accounts agree, that the TURKS continue to make great like preparations. Some fay, that re is a scheme on foot for reducing rebellious Arabs, and other vagads of Afia. Others tell us, that the rtars dependent on the Porte having med a conspiracy against their kan, it prince, with the few fubjects who nained faithful to him, finding him fincapable of quelling the rebels, reed to Bender, from whence he fent e of his principal officers to Conftanople, to claim the protection and aftance of the Sultan; and that his Subne Highness immediately dispatched ders to the governors of the provinces areft Tartary, to affemble as many oops as they could, in order to restore e kan to his authority. Mean while is ftill the general opinion, that a rup. ure between the Porte and Ruffia is ear, unless a reconciliation between the atter and his Prussian Majesty be foon wrought about. ཝཱ cording to private advices from thence, the court seems to be in a great ferment in regard to the present state of affairs, which fome attribute to the report that Count Schuwalow, who commanded the wing of the army which fuffered so much in the battle of Zorndorf, has made of that affair. Others believe that the certainty they have of the Turks marching a great army into Crim Tartary, under pretence of putting an end to the troubles there, is the real caufe. It is not impoffible that the temper which appears among the Polish nobility may have fome influence. In the mean time they write from Vienna of Oct. 8. that letters to the Emprefs-Queen from the Emprefs of Ruffia gave full affurances, that whatever may happen, fhe will perfift inviolably in her refolution to affift her allies; that fhe will redouble her efforts against the common enemy, till he be obliged to fubfcribe to a peace according to the firft plan; that the had reiterated her orders to Gen. Fermor to continue his operations in fuch a manner, as to act in concert with the Auftrian and Swedish generals; and that nothing might be wanting in regard to the force neceffary for obtaining this end, fhe had ordered 50,000 recruits to be railed in her dominions. Advices from Petersburg bear, that their army under Gen, Fermor will be reinforced with 40,000 men before the end of the current year, and that part of the troops for that purpose are actually on their march. From the fame place we have information, that the Empress has of late betrayed an extraordinary animofity against the King of Pruffia, and is exceedingly nettled at the Pruffians affecting to bestow the epithet of barbarians on her troops, and accusing them of horrid cruelties in all the relations published at Berlin. Probably her Inperial Majefty is not well pleased, if the has heard of another epithet which they tell us his Pruffian Majefty fometimes beftows upon her foldiers, namely, fuselknegt, which we are informed may be literally tranflated gun-flaves; meaning, that they are not masters of their mu Ackets, but their mulkets of them. There The diet of POLAND met on the 2d of October, according to the univerfalia flued for that purpofe. All the previous dietines of Polish Pruffia had feparated without doing any business, so that there could be no deputies from thence. On the day of affembling, the marshal of the preceding diet prefided in the chamber of nuncios as ufual; but great debates arifing, the election of a new marfhal was put off till next day; when, after many warm difputes, M. Marachoufki was chofen, and took the oaths; after which the diet adjourned. There was afterwards very warm reasoning about the march of the Ruffian troops through the republic's territories. At length M: Podoriki, one of the deputies from the palatinate of Volhinia, stopped the activity of the diet by a proteft, and then abfconded. In confequence of this they broke up on the 11th in great diforder, without doing any business; as has been the cafe for many years paft. Letters from PETERSBURG, dated Sept. 15. confirm the departure of the Turkish amballador in difguft. are |