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Unto the lonely place where ftands the tomb;

[dead, That awful manfion of the mould'ring XVII.

Hence let me turn, and seek th' embow'ring grove,

Nor longer tread this unfrequented road, Tho' I could draw instruction as I'd rove,

To fit me for the debt at birth I ow`d." XVIII. The debt, which letter'd learning, titled pow'r, [bloom, Wisdom, and youth, in all its lov'lieft Must pay, precisely at the stated hour, Without abatement, to th' insatiate tomb. XIX.

Too much the scene would damp the tender mufe,

Who melts in woe at the funereal ftrain; Far other profpects willingly she'd choose, The hill, the woodland, or the peaceful plain.

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XXVI.

Such wond'rous magic lies in harmony, The free with joy become to it a flaves The heavy thackled bondsman it sets free;* Makes heroes cowards, and poor cowards brave.

XXVII.

It melts to pity the steel-harden`d heart,'! Stops Grief's fad tears, and fooths, her fobbing breast;

Pain it allays, and doth sweet reft impart, Where loft was the idea of sweet ieft. XXVIII.

Thou art, that hadst thy happy birth above! All-bounteous Heav'n to crown our joys lent thee. [prove? What tranfports muft the facred fpirits Since all their language is pure harmony I XXIX.

But while I mufe, lo! Night yields up her (way, [train:

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And to the Weft hies with her vap'ry I fee, I fee with joy, the kindling day! The vermeil blushes paint the Eaft again! P. ALLEY.

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The LOVER'S FAREWEL A PASTORAL.

HOW oft have I curft in my mind

My wretched deplorable state;
No eafe nor contentment I find,
For Chloe's ftill to me ingrate..
She frowning refuses to hear

The humble request of her swain ;
My hope's intercepted with fear,
My kindneffes meet with difdain.
What fcenes of unlimited woe

What pains I for her undergo,
Her cruelty pours on my head!

When forrows encompaís my bed!
Each fhepherd that pipes on the plain

His Phillis can please and delight; Attentive the hears his foft ftrain; But Chloe poor Strephon does flight. My flame it was ardent and just;

My bofom with tenderness glow'd; My heart the fincereft, I trust,

That e'er was on mortal bestow'd.

But fince that my Chloe's unkind,
Adieu to the charms of the fair;
Some place I'll endeavour to find,

To breathe out my forrow and care.

I

No

P

No more will I frolic and rant,
But penfive I'll be as the dove;
No more fhall the mufic enchant

My foul with the raptures of love. Ye banquets of pleasure, adieu !

No more will I taste of your cheer; But in this deplorable hue

To the fhades of oblivion will steer.

Biggleswade, March 10, 1764.

Prolific mifts o'er every till`

Prefide, and fhade the diftant hill;
A tepid moisture gladdens every root,

The hufbandmen now pole and bind
The hops, and bid the tendrils shoot,

Thus guarded from the fouthern wind,
While every vegetable power
Imbibes young April's foft balfamic shower.

Mark! how each month's unwearied toil
J. SHADGETT. Succeffive cloaths, or strips the foil!
From heat to cold they traverse thro' the
fky,

Verfes on a YOUNG LADY at B

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Is of a fpirit humble, yet not mean;
Her beauty fuch as my own tafte admires,
And one a character from me requires.
Who in the elegance of breeding fhines,
And ev'ry other female charm refines :
In her these characters, fo pleasing, meet,
Softly complying, and genteely sweet;
Chearful fometimes, and courteous, tho'
fincere,
[fear:

Nor yet too prone too much to wish or
Her paffions all in Gilent currents flow,
And neither fwell too high, nor fink too
low:

Who would afford as much connubial blifs, As thought can fancy, or the heart can wish.

Let her be mine, if fuch a one there be,
And fuch a one there is, and

T%

ODE on APRIL,

woo green April, lo the fun

is the.

T. B.

That very form (which Jove put on To bear Europa from her native land)

Affumes to win the queen of showers!
A new-blown primrose decks her hand,
Her taper waift a zone of flowers.
Like a young widow the appears,
Shining thro' fhades, and beautiful in tears.

Now genial nature every feed
Opens to grace the vernal mead,
The lark now ventures up the fapphire skies,
Tho' Zephyr fhakes his madid wing,
Yet warmth awakes the embryo flies

To creep, and meet parental spring:
When lo! a fhower of drizzling rain,
Or drowns, or drives them to their nefts
again!

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And yet unerring is the plan, And regular from hot to dry

The calendar of focial man! In no one track the steps appear, Yet all to one united centre fteer.

To a YOUNG LADY on ber BIRTH-DAY,
Which was the first of April.

ET others write for by-defigns,
I feek fome moral in my lines,
Which whofoever reads must bear,
Or great, or learn'd, or young, or fair ;
Permit me, then, with friendly lay.
To moralize your Aprikday.

Checquer'd your native month appears
With funny gleams, and cloudy tears;
'Tis thus the world our trust beguiles,
It frowns as tranfient as its fmiles;
Nor pain nor pleasure long will stay,
For life is but an April-day.
Health will not always laft in bloom,
But age or fickness surely come;
Are friends belov'd? why Fate muft feize
Or thefe from you, or you from these :
Forget not earnest in your play,

For youth is but an April-day.

When piety and fortune move
Your heart to try the bands of love,
As far as duty gives you power,
Guiltless enjoy the prefent hour:
Gather your rofe-buds while you may,
For love is but an April-day.
what clouds foe'er without are feen,
Oh, may they never reach within!
But virtue's ftronger fetters bind
The ftrongest tempeft of the mind:
Calm may you shed your fetting ray,
And funshine end your April-day.

FOREIGN

1

Mag.

FOREIGN AFFAIRS.

Brunfwick, March 16,
A Marriage is negotiating between his

royal highness the prince of Pruffia
and a princefs of this houfe. All the royal
family are to repair to Berlin before the
conclufion of this marriage. Preparations
are already making for the journey.

Lifton, Feb. 28. The king has published an ordinance concerning the civil and military police, by which all military men are authorized to apprehend, on the fpot, any person they fhall fee guilty of a breach of the peace, or other flagrant crime; and the fame power is given to all magistrates or civil officers, who fhall find any officer or foldier in the like cafe.

The military

are enjoined to deliver up the prifoner to the commiffary of the quarter; and civil officers are to give notice to the commandant of the corps to which the delinquent they feize may belong. The nightly patroles may also apprehend, in the like circumftances, any inhabitant whatever. Any foldier or ferjeant, that fhall refift the perfons appointed to maintain the civil police, by ufing any fire-arms against them, shall be laid in irons, tried as a rebel to the laws, an enemy to the public peace, a profaner and infringer of the military order, and as fuch condemned to death, according to the first and fecond articles of the new regulation for the army. Every foldier that shall be found in the streets of this city and Belem (excepting when he is upon duty) with fire-arms, or fword, or bayonet, stiletto, &c. fhall be likewife apprehended, fent to prifon, ftript of his uniform, and condemned to work fix years in his majefty's arfenal.

While the king was at Salvaterra, he iffued a decree, importing, that every foreign officer, who fhall come to feek service in his troops, muft not at firft expect to get a tank higher than he had in the country he

comes from.

Franckfort, March 29. The day before yefterday being fixed for the election of a King of the Romans, the Electoral ambaffadors, and the three ecclefiaftical electors in perfon, affembled about nine in the morning at the Romer. At half an hour pat ten they repaired with a numerous and April 1764.

brilliant retinue to the cathedral. After divine fervice they proceeded to the elec tion, which was unanimoutly made in favour of the archduke Jofeph. The prince emperor, being informed of it, went with de Lichtenstein, first commiffary of the and there gave his Imperial majesty's afa magnificent equipage to the cathedral, fent. elector of Mentz, who afterwards chanted The new king of the Romans was then proclaimed with a loud voice by the in the city, and under a discharge of 300 Te Deum amidst the ringing of all the bells

cannon.

The prince of Deux Ponts and the count de Mariani were then dispatched to carry the diploma of election to the archduke, preceded by twenty-four poftilions.

The

Rome, March 17. Saturday a party of
voli, on account of an infurrection there,
Corfican troops fet out from hence for Ti-
occafioned by the fcarcity of corn.
pope has given orders that four fmall loaves
Saturday, Sunday, and Monday, to each
fhall be diftributed, at his expence, every
poor perfon in the country, during the
prefent wet feafon. His holinefs has like-
nary indulgence for 1g days, to all who
wife ordered public prayers, with a ple-
fhall vifit certain churches to implore the
lamities of Italy, He hath alfo forbidden,
affiftance of Heaven against the prefent ca-
bread, meal, or any commodity, whether
under pain of death, the carrying away
on the roads, or in the towns of the Eccle-
fiaftical State.

Aleppo, Jan. 17. Private advices fay, that
Kerim Kan, being gone from Ispahan to
Tauris, in order to caufe himself to be crown-
half of the city out of refentment to the in-
ed there king of Perfia, has destroyed near
habitants; that he has alfo caufed 4 princes
or lords of that country to be arrested, who
were conducted prifoners to Ispahan; but
that the troops attached to thofe lords fent
their chiefs, and on refufal mutinied, and
him a deputation, demanding the liberty of
marched to Ifpahan, of which they poffeffed
difficult for Kerim Kan to drive them out
themfelves. It is thought that it will be very
feffion; and if this news be true,
of that city, of which they are still in pof-
may be plunged again in new troubles.
Peifia
Ff

DO.

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DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE.

MONDAY, April 2. 1Nformation having been given, that feveral of his majefty's fubjects have been for a confiderable time, and are now detained in France as hostages for the payment of ranfom bills, which have not yet been fatisfied; notice was given in the gazette of laft Saturday, that in cafe fuch ranfom bills are not forthwith difcharged, profecutions will be commenced in his majesty's court of admiralty against all mafters, owners, and others, unjustly refusing or neglecting to pay the fums of money flipulated for the releafe of thofe unfortunate perfons who have fuffered fo long an imprifonment.

On Saturday the new ftatue of the king at the Royal Exchange was expofed to public view; it confifts of the finest white marble, with a truncheon in his hand, and a laurel wreath around his head.

WEDNESDAY, April 4.

They write from Italy, that fome curious gold repeating watches having been prefented by his royal highnefs the duke of York to several ladies of quality, in the courts which his highnefs vifited, the fafhion of wearing English watches has of late almost univerfally prevailed among the ladies, which has confiderably augmented the demand for this British manufacture in the fe parts; and we are informed orders, to a large amount, are come over in the last packet.

Eaf-India Houfe. By the company's fhip royal George, which arrived at Spithead from Bengal on the rft inf. the court of directors have received letters from that preûdency to the following purport: that the difputes be tween the company's fervants there, and the reigning Nabob, Coffim Aly Cawn, had been produ&ive of fuch animofities and jealoufies on the part of the latter, that it was judged highly neceffary to ufe every means to allay them. For this purpose Meff. Amyatt and Hay, two gentlemen of the council, were deputed to wait upon the Naboh, with inftructions to endeavour to adjust the difference in an amicable manner. They accordingly arrived at Morg. heer, the place of his refidence, on the

12th of May, and had many conferences with him, in which he evidently fhewed a great averfeness to an accommodation upan the terms offered to him. About this time, a fupply of 500 stand of arms, going to Patna, was topped by the Nabob's officers, and other acts of hoftility were.committed; and affairs being come to an extremity, a war with Coffim Aly was unavoidable. Meff. Amyatt and Hay were recalled, and measures were taken at the prefidency, to carry it on in the most effectual manner. Mr. Amyatt having taken leave of the nabob the 24th of June, and received the ufual paffports, he fet out in boats for Calcutta, accompanied with Meff. Amphlett, Wellafton, and Hutchinson; lieutenants Jones, Gordon, and Cooper; and doctor Crooke (Meff. Hay and Guliton remaining with the nabob as hoftages). As the boats were paffing the city of Moorfhedabad, they were attacked on the 3d of July by a number of troops, affembled for that purpose, on both fides the river, and fome of the gentlemen were killed in the boats. Mr. Amyatt immediately landed with a few feapoys, which he forbid to fire, and endeavoured to make the enemy's troops understand that he was furnished with the nabob's passports, and had no defign of committing any hoftilities; but the enemy's horfe advancing, fome of the feapoys fired, notwithstanding Mr. Amyatt's orders; and a general confusion enfuing, that gentleman, and most of the small party who were with him, were cut to pieces.

By the faid letters it further appears, that Mr. Ellis and his council at Patna having, with the approbation of Capt. Carstairs, agreed to attack that city early in the morning of the 25th of June, it was accordingly executed and carried; that they were in entire poffeffion of the city for four hours, the Moorish governor and most of his people having fled as far as Futwa; that he there came to a refolution to return and attempt to regain the city, and having got in at the Water-fide Gate of the fort, he fucceeded in difpofffing our troops, owing to the feapoys and Europeans being mostly difperfed in plundering. That upon their retiring into the factory, on account of the difpiritednela

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