Poetical ESSAYS for NOVEMBER, 1761. doom) CONNAL and CRIMORA: A ELEGY. Full many a chief (fuch was their hapless- Taken from the Fragments of Scotch Perfy. SEE, with what scorn yon cloud-afpiring hill [neath; Eyes the black whirlwind revelling beHow the fogs gather, where yon mazy rill, Securely glides along the mofs-grown heath. Oft, where yon cyprefs, whistling to the wind, [dead, Points out the filent mansions of the Flits the pale fpectre, while the muting hind Recoils aftonifh'd, trembling, and difmay'd. Who can defcribe their boafted ancestry ;, Or, from its channels, trace the diftant fource? [ply, Say, who may Connal's weighty poft fupe Alike in virtue, fame, and warlike force? Thus the flout oak, on whofe expanded boughs [in vain, The winds difcharge their bluft'ring rage Expires beneath the woodman's labour'd blows, And fhades, a stately ruin, all the plain." Here million's groan'd, drown'd in the - brazen breath, [fpear Of louder clarions; here the fhivering Glar'd horrible, there rag'd refiftlefs death, And eccho'd thro? the ruddy paths of war. Hadft thou but feen, when, like a noontide pay [cas'd; He fhone with gold and adamant enOr, with his falchion, hew'd a crimson way Thro' falling troops, and laid the battle waste. Fierce on his thund'ring car, proud Dargo came, [fhield: Aleft he flood and grafp'd his beamy His eyes, like Gorgon, fhot a fanguine flame, [field. Unman'd the brave, and wither'd all the And now the rival chiefs in combat meet, Impetuous, and with equal ardour glow: Such was their strength, that either army's\" fate Depending feem'd on one decifive blow Near flood Crimora, like the blufhing mora, All theath'd in arms, and bent on Cope nal's aid: A fatal bow fhe held of tougheft horn, Adown her neck, her hair in ringlets play'd. She drew...but let me hide this tragic part, And wave the moving sequel of my tale; She drew, indeed...but pierç'd her Con[prevail. nal's heart He falls, he dies, nor tears, nor fhrieks In vain the strove to stem the tide of woe: She rent her hair, he beat her fnow! white arm, Mist on Hed Till pitying death difcharg'd the fatal., blow; [charm.. Clos'd her faint eyes, and rifled every Nor letter'd pride, nor gold's attractive Nor crimson wreaths, nor beauty's tranCan influence death, or bribe one fleeting hour Of life, the fare of the infatiate tomb. * Under which they were interr'd. MID The SOLDIER'S RESOLVE; Coûte qui Coûte. On the glorious Taking of PONDICHERRY, under the Command of Col. EYRE COOTE, the 16th of January, 1761. Io Pæan, Britannia! Hibernia! IoTriumphe! TONE--Hearts of Oak. HARK, hark, my brave boys! 'tis the triumpet of fame, [founding name, Calls aloud...All to arms...hark, the fweetPondicherry the word.... then what Briton can stay [the way! To hear it again, when brave Coote leads CHORU S. Cocte...the Fortunate One; And Glory's bright Son; The Striker of Thunder; Of Nations the Wonder*; What foldier can halt when brave Coote leads the way! [vance With hearts full of ardour, behold we adTo attack India's queen, † La Pomme d'Or de la France; [proclaim, Our leader's command, his dread thunders And her proud towers bend at his terrible Chorus name. be gone.. "Enough, (fays the God) let flaughter [their own; "Britons nobly have fought...Pondicherry's "Though her walls were laid waste, France the carnage purfu'd, "Coote triumphs in mercy, and Lally in blood." Chorus. Learn, infolent France! learn to humble your creft, [teft; The valour of Britons will fill ftand the To honour, to GEORCE, and to liberty true, We defy all your priests, and your councils can do. Chorus. H. Z. Indian titles given to Colonel Coote. † La Pomme d'Or de la France; or the Golden Apple of France, Pondicherry, fo called. November, 1761. INSCRIPTION, To the Memory of a great Patriot. WITH honefty, and active genius born, Thy nation, age, and fpecies to adorn; Formed, with refift lefs eloquence, to charm, And Britain's fons with patriot-ardour [guide, warm; With wife direction, form'd, the helm to With toils of ftate no longer, now, oppreft, and fenfe! If things like thefe with honeft fcorn you Think there are fubiects ftill to fatire due: Corruption lifts her head...route, romfe for fhame! O, let the fons of verse their pow'rs unite, Taffert thePatriot's with the Nation's right, C REBUS SES. In my first fyllable you'll furely find That which the fall entail'd upon mankind; Take me together, and you'll quickly fee The lofs of Paradife was caus'd by me. View me, you'll find that my delight A bird whofe notes delight your ear. British HISTORY of the PRESENT War. PRince Ferdinand having received in telligence the beginning of November, that the French army was a good deal difperfed, determined to march and prevent their collecting again in a body, if made by his poffible. The difpofitions flow: Ge-, Serene highness, were as neral Luckner was ordered to march with his detachment, joined by the garrifon of Wolfenbuttle, on the 3d and 4th, by Ringelheim and Lutter, fo was to be oppofite M. Stainville's corps at Seefen on the 5th, and either to keep him in check, or to follow him if he marched : the heréditary prince was directed to march on the 3d, by his right from Hilderheim, to crofs the Leine at Coldingen, and to pro-, ceed on the 4th to Ahlfeldt, fo as to be able to get poffeffion of the Huve and Eimbeck on the sth. The marquis of Granby was ordered to march the 3d to Coppenburgge, the 4th to Dufen, and to force the fame day the poft of Cappelnhagen, and to be on the 5th at Wickenfen, fo as to block the defile, which leads from Efchermhaufen to Eimbetk. His lordship,, after a fmart action, forced the enemy at Cappelnhagen, and found means to be at the hour appointed, on the 5th, at Wickenfen. These several corps had been for him to escape, and which, without any wards Stad Olderndorp, the only way left accident, he would have likewife found off. Lieut. gen. Hardenberg, who was blocked up, and his retreat entirely cut to have paffed the Wefer at Bodenwerder, on the 4th at night, fo as to have been on the 5th in the morning at Amelunxborn, upon the road to Escherthausen, ing in a hollow way, which delayed his was prevented by the pontons overtuinfeven in the morning; fo that M. de arrival at Bodenwerder, till the 5th, at Chabo had the great good fortune to efcape by Daffel to Eimbeck, where he poft upon the Huve. The hereditary arrived about twelve at noon, and took prince was difappointed by this accident likewife in his project upon Eimbeck, for he arrived oppofite the Huve at two o'clock, and was joined by the marquis' of Granby, and lieut, gen. Conway at four in the afternoon. A warm cannonading enfued till night, but marshal Broglio that the hereditary prince did not think had had time to collect fo many troops, it advifeable to attempt to force the Huve under that change of circumftancesty n Prince Ferdinand encamped at Efcherfhaufen the 5th at night, paffed fuccefs. His ferene highnefs on the 7th fome time upon the right of the Wefer Hardenbreg joined him, where general thofe upon the left croffed the river in the following manner: prince Ferdinand, on the 4th, with the main body of the army, which encamped between Fundern and Haftenbeck, lieut. gen. Conway being advanced the fame day to Borgel, and general Scheele to Bremke, who join ed at Halle the 5th, in the morning. The intention of his Serene highness was to cut off general. Chabo's corps, which lay at Efcherfhaufen, and he purfued this march for that purpofe, on the 5th. M. Chabo finding himself likely to be attacked, left Efcherfhaufen, and marched towards Wickenfen, in order to get to Eimbeck, and join Marthal Broglio: fur prized to find a body of troops in his way, which was that of the marquis of Granby, he fell back upon the road to Efcherfhaufen, till he could turn the right to It not being found practicable to attack the enemy in their prefent pofition on that spot, prince Ferdinand therefore refolved to attempt getting round their left 1 left flank, and to put them under a neceffity of attacking him, or of abandoning Eimbeck, and all that part of the country. His ferene highnefs, after having reconnoitred on all fides, on the 7th and 8th, marched on the 9th, at three in the morning, to the heighths between Mackenfen and Lithorft; the hereditary prince to replace lord Granby at Foorwohle; and general Luckner to occupy the hereditary prince's camp at Ammenfen. The marquis of Granby was again attacked that morning upon his left, before he could march to follow the army; but his lordship received the enemy with the fame fpirit as before, and repulfed them with a confiderable lofs. Major Frafer diftinguished himself greatly on this occafion. Marshal Broglio finding, by his de tachments, which were driven off the heights of Lithorft, that Prince Ferdinand had gained his flank, and was partly in his rear, having it in his choice to rifk an" action or retire, chofe the latter, and went off the 9th in the night, quitting Eimbeck and all the adjacent country. When Prince Ferdinand "croffed the Wefer, he fent General Bock with a detachment to give the enemy fome uneannefs in Heffe and Waldeck. During those motions upon the Wefer and Loire, the army under Prince de Soubife was employed in taking up winter quarters. its On the 13th inft. prince Ferdinand's ני centre was at Wangenstad; the Hartz was no longer poffeffed by the French; Marthal Broglio, with a defign to go into winter-quarters, had recalled his troops from Ganderfheim and Seefen, and had left his camp at Eimbeck, and was marching with his whole army to Gottingen and Munden. The hereditary prince was employed in following the rear guard of the French, The Auftrian army, reinforced by the corps brought by general Butler, occupied, both borders of the Elbe,and begun on the 8th to act offenfively by diflodging the Pruffians from Noffen, d'Oebelen, and Roffwein. Prince Henry intrenched the paffes of the mountain of Duremberg in order to make it an afylum in cafe of need. He has recalled all his detached, parties; and has withdrawn the garrifon from Halle. But, as to Leipfick, fo far from evacuating it, he has trebled the garrifon at that place, Nothing material has been tranfacted by his Pruffian majesty; the last accounts. mention his continuing at Strehlen, and general Laudohn at Freyburg. From Pomerania we learn that the fiege. of Colberg was fufpended fince the de-, parture of the Ruffian fleet: and a large fupply of provisions has been got into that place by fea, Some accounts pofitively fay, that the Ruflians had raised the fiege, and that the prince of Wurtem berg g with his troops were in pursuit of them. SUNDAY, Nov. 'I. THE French now give out, that the arcondemned in laft September femtions for SATURDAY, Oct. 31. This day his majesty's free pardon came to Newgate for Thomas Daniels, the box-maker (many circumstances on the trial appearing in his favour) who was As a couple were marrying in the parifh-church of St. Dunstan in the West, the bride-groom, a journeyman carpenter, after repeating the words, With this ring, I thee aved, hook his fift at the bride, and added. And with this fift I'll break thy bead. The clergyman, upon this stopped, and reproved him feverely for his irreverent behaviour; but the man making a fubmiffion, and declaring, he meant no 4.H.2 harm, |