Thofe fields, profufe of raiment, food, and fire, Thofe cooling fruits, that we may tafte and live. Their board no strange ambiguous viand bore; From their own ftreams their choicer fare they drew; To lure the fcaly glutton to the fhore, The fole deceit their artless bofoms knew! Sincere themselves, ah too fecure to find The common bofom, like their own, fincere! 'Tis its own guilt alarms the jealous mind; "Tis her own poifon bids the viper fear. Sketch'd on the lattice of th' adjacent fane, Their fuppliant bufts implore the reader's pray'r; Ah gentle fouls! enjoy your blissful reign, hear. For thefe the founds that chafe unholy firife, Laft of his race, Palemon, now no more OT on beauty's tranfient pleasure, Nor on heaps of fordid treafure, 'Twas alone her spotless mind. That will joys for life infure, EPIGRAMME. BLife voyant à l'agonie Lucas, qui lui devoit cent francs, TRANSLATION. HUMANITY REVERSED. Laife hearing Lucas groan half dead, Cries, Pay-'tis time-thy fhame is fled, Who ow'd him franks a hundred, Into his ears he thunder'd. Oh ftop, and let me die in peace, The feeble Lucas prays. ANOTHER. Sis Pay what you owe me, ere you yield Aid Blaife to Lucas, in the gripe of death, your breath." With feeble voice, quoth Lucas, "Pray, good Blaife, "Forbear, retire, and let me die at eafe." "Think'st thou I will?" (Blaife fternly made reply) "No, tili I'm paid, by G-thou fhall not die." It PARODY of the fame. Uft ready to refign his place, In flent fad despair old Hubble stood: Says Gaio, fam'd for three-fold brafs, is high time to make your promise good. Betray'd good Gaio, teas'd and stunn'd! 'Tis now too late, my friend, all, all is loft, Nay, d-n me then, you must refund, Ere you refign, what my election coft The anecdote on which the above turns, is unqueftionally certain; and perhaps the fame to which the original author alludes. Gent. Mag. The The VACATION. Hen late, impatient of delay, W Each youthful student hail'd the day; The day ordain'd to fet him free, The glorious day of liberty; When Science now, due vigils kept, (For not an idle wink he'd flept; You need not fneer, but view his bed Awful, with Homer at its head, And fure no fcholar can refufe To nod a while with epic mufc), Gracious had given him a dismission From all the toils of erudition; Fearing, left too much reading might Disturb his brain, or hurt his fight: With hafty motion, eager looks, See him prepar'd to fhut his books; See the fierce duns around him stand, Fire in each eye, bills in each hand; Portmanteaus, boxes, ftrew'd around, Extended o'er the fpacious ground; Whilft bufy footmen ftrive to please, And carriers chuckle o'er their fees. Now fancy paints the fylvan scene, And cheats each eye with things unfeen: The youth with cracking whip exprefs Their perfect fenfe of happiness. Curs'd be my defp'rate lot, I cry'd, Thefe heart-elating joys deny'd: To college chain'd in evil hour, By the relentless hand of pow'r; Left by my friends, whom pleafure calls Far from thofe lonesome widow'd walls, To mingle in the rural train, Where peace, good-humour ever reign; Again let Reafon take, and own What though companions hence are flown? Through ancient and through modern lore, To climb, and dare be truly great, ADVICE to REYNOLDS. In imitation of the 29th ode of Anacreon. Reynolds, wouldst thou prove thy art To his middle, do not fail, His breast and back are both fo winning! And the fweet boy is just beginning To think of love Oh fpare no fkill! You fhall have any price you will. For his flowing folitaire, For his nonfenfe, nofe, and hair; Can ye, beaux, with him compare? Hands as pale as pap or milk! Stockings-gods! what heav'nly filk? How he taps his box, and gives it! And how fweetly he receives it! Takes a pinch, with what a mien! How he knacks his fingers clean! Says he knows not what to name me! Sings and fwears fo pretty demme ! Tells me beauty's above rule! (O Mamma, you are a fool!) Phoebus is a fright to him!But I will not tell my Jim, Who his arms would fondly fill →→→ He may have me if he will. HISTORY. PER S I A. Aleppo, May 23. The report of the death of Kerim Kan is without foundation. He continues to govern in tranquility; and his brother, who revolted [219.], has been obliged to take refuge among the Arabs. Commerce revi es, and the caravans pafs frequently from Ifpahan to Bagdad. Ρ Ο Ι Α N D. London, Aug. 27. The French King, in his letter to M. Hennin, late refident from the court of Verfailles at Warfaw [398], wherein he orders him to quit that capital, without feeing the Primate; declares, that he referves to himself to make known, at a proper time and place, his intentions with respect to the repara tion which he has a right to pretend to, as well as his fentiments with regard to all that has pafled in Poland fince the commencement of the interregnum. Warsaw, July 18. Count Mercy d' Argentau, ambalador from the court of Vierina, with his refident, and the refident of Spain, left this city yesterday, after having taken leave of the Primate the day before. London, Aug. 11. They write from Warlaw, that Pr Radzivil [palatine of Wilda, 308.] finding himself puthed by the Rufian and Polifh troops, and defpairing of any fuccours from foreign powers, is retiring toward Choczim. London, Aug. 14. Some letters from Warfaw mention, that a courier was ar rived at Grodno from the Ruffian general Pr. Dolgorucki, with an account, that he had come up with the troops of Pr Radzivil, between Lubies and Jenua, where he had made most of the Waiwode's troops prifoners, with fixteen pieces of cannon, and twenty waggons laden with effects. Warsaw, Aug. 4. Pr. Radzivil, on his getting into Volhinia, endeavoured to draw over to him the troops of the palatine of Kiow; but without fuccefs. The officers of those troops even refuled to enter into a conference with him On this he cried out, in a fit of delpair, "Since the Chriftians will not give me any fuccou, I will go and feek it among the Infdels." He then endeavoured to penetrate into the Polifh fortrefles of Kaminick and Trinity; but the commandants being as inflexible as the troops of Kiow, London, Aug. 27. We hear from Warfaw, that three large parties, commanded by Polith grandees in oppofition to the confederacy, having retired towards the frontiers of Turky, it has been intimated to them, by orders from the Porte, to evacuate the territories of the Grand Signior immediately. Warsaw, July 6. Notwithstanding the pains taken by the Primate's party, to perfuade the public of the facility with which they will carry their election, vet it is eafy to forefee, by what has paffed at fome of the late diets, that this will be a matter of much greater difficulty than they could with. Count Brannitsky and Pr. Radzivil are expected to be there in perfon; and, if they come, will doubt lefs not appear unattended. The other grandees, whofe duty it is to affift, are levying new troops to ftrengthen those they have now on foot, though their pretence is only to provide for their own fafety. But fo many different corps meeting together in one place, with intentions not the most friendly towards each other, will hardly part without acts of hostility. The feparate interefts of the leaders, many of whom conceal their inclinations, till they fee the proper moment for acting, will heighten thefe animofities. Among these last are several, who at prefent pretend to be neuter, and others, who even feem to espouse the Primate's interefts, that heartily deteft both meafures in their hearts, and are only kept in awe by the Rullian troops. Warfaw, July 23. Though the party of the Prince Primate till appears to maintain the fuperiority, yet matters go on but indifferently in the dietines of relation By letters from Stargard of the 19th we learn, that the diet for the difrict of Schwetz, has not taken place; and that for the palatinate of Pomerelia was immediateiv broke up, a fufficient number of perfons not appearing on the occafion. Thefe, however, did not diperte till after they had drawn up a manifefto, which was fent by deputation to the Prince Primate, the Great Chancellor of Lithuania, and the Rullian ambaffador at Warfaw, wherein they demand the maintenance of the privileges of the province of Prutha. Advices from Graudentz of the 23d of July inform us, that the opening of the general diet was to have been that day, but that a finall number only of senators and the officers of the province affembling at the palatine's of Poinerelia, they drew up a manifefto, importing, that it was not owing to them that the diet was not held. Letters of the fame date from Stuhm inform us, indeed, that the diet for the palatinate of Marienburg was held, though by no means numerous, and nuncios chofen at it for the general diet at Graudentz. From Rowalewgo we learn, by letters of the 21st, that though, contrary to the ufual practice, the diet for the palatinate of Clum was not convened there, yet that feveral of those who have a right to aflift at it affembled at Clum, where they chofe nuncios for the general diet at Graudentz. London, Aug. 21. The last letters from Great Poland advise, that the relationdiets of Pofen and Kalifch were peaceably concluded at Szrede, on the 25th ult. when Pr. Sulkowski, Duke of Belitz, with fome others of the nobility, and thirty-fix nuncios, figned the general confederacy. London, Aug. 23. They write from Warfaw, of the 30th ult. that the refolution of feveral of the dietines, to fend nuncios to give the fuffrages of the Nobleffe of each district for the choice of a King, instead of their being prefent in perion at the diet of election, gives great fatisfaction to those who have the peace and fafety of the people at heart, being fenfible that this method, if generally adopted, would prevent thofe diforders which have usually happened on the like occafion, and which were almost unavoidable, as every one, after giving his opinion, was, by the oppofition natural in fuch cafes, frequently led to fupport it with fuch a warmth, as commonly ended in confufion, riot, and difafter. Warfaw, Aug. 6. The dietines of the palatinates of Sendomir and Lublin, and diftrict of Haliez, broke up in great confusion, in which fome lives were loft; which obliged the ftaroft of the last-mentioned place, Count Brannitsky, to post away from that capital to his army, to quiet the disturbance. Warfaw, Aug. 15. The dietines of Rava and Plock, affembled at Racie, broke up in great confufion, not fuffering the proceedings of the diet of convocation to be read; and the Sieur Rofcifzewski, judge of Plock, and late nuncio to the faid diet, was fo hacked with the fabres, that he foon after expired. Several of the members were VOL. XXVI. mortally wounded, and there was much bloodshed among their different adherents. Hamburg, Aug. 18. It is now certain, that three bodies of Ruffian troops, confifting in the whole of 70,000 men, are actually diftributed within no great diftance of the place appropriated to be the enfuing fcene of election in Poland; and while the feveral neighbouring powers are protesting they have no defign to interfere in the free decision of the Polish diets, each of them, in conformity to their, refpective views, are taking fuch steps as may best support their particular interests on the day of trial. London, Aug. 4. They write from Warfaw, that Count de Keiferling and Pr. Repnin, ambaffadors from Ruffia, had lately a public audience of the Primate, in the prefence of feveral of the Magnates; when an inftrument wrote on parchment, in the Latin and Ruflian lan guages, was produced, with the feal of the Republic affixed, giving the Empress of Ruffia, and her fucceffors, the title of Emperor or Empress of all the Ruffias: in confideration of which, the Czarina is to give in writing, under her own hand, that neither fhe, nor any of her fucceffors, fhall ever lay claim to any part of the provinces belonging to Poland, which may be included or contained under the faid title; but that they reciprocally shall keep poffeflion of all the provinces, as ftipulated in the treaty of peace concluded between the Ruffians and Poles in the year 1683. Thefe inftruments are to be interchanged when the Emprels arrives at Mittau.An inftrument of the fame fort has been drawn up, giving the title of King of Pruffia to that prince; he having given a writing, under his hand, that neither he, nor any of his fucceffors, do now, nor ever fhall hereafter, lay claim to any part of Polith Pruffia: which writing has been delivered to the diet by the Pruffian ambassador. The Empress fet out from Petersburg ing barbarity. The first blow was but the 8th of July, in order to vifit the feve- flight, and only served to awaken the unral ports in Livonia, and concert the most fortunate prince; who ftruggled fome advantageous measures for extending com- time for his life, and even broke the go. merce in that province. She alfo paid a vernor's fword in the fcuffle; but affiftvifit to the Duke of Courland, at his ca- ance was called for, and another bloody pital of Mittau, where the affured him aflaflin appeared, who finished the horrid afresh, that he would firmly perfift in her work. When the unhappy Ivan had exrefolution to employ her good offices for pired in the hands of thefe execrable maintaining him, and his male iffue, in ruffians, the governor opened the gates poffeffion of the duchies of Courland and of the fortress, expofed the dead body, Semigallia; adding, that the no way ftabbed in above ten places, to the view doubted but that the future King of Po- of Mierenhoff, and his company, and land would fully ratify the decree made faid, in a tanting and infolent manner, by the diet of convocation upon that fub- "There is your Emperor!— let him now ject. It was fuppofed by many, that the head you:-he will undoubtedly make a defigned to be prefent incognito at the fine figure on the Imperial throne.”— election of a King of Poland. Whatever Mierenhoff feemed to fhow lefs furprise might be in this, an event happened in and indignation at the conduct of the bar. the interior part of her own dominions, barous governor, than might have been which did not admit of her remaining at expected from a perfon who had efpoua distance from her capital. The difa- fed fincerely the interefts of the maffacred greeing accounts of this must be given prince. He took off his fath, and gave verbatim from the public papers, as follows. himfelf up tamely prifoner to the govern "Hamburg, Aug. 1. A new fcene of or, faying, with more coldness than fuithorror has ftained the annals of Ruflia, ed fuch a horrid catastrophe, That since and furnished occafion to many reflec- his mafter was dead, it was in vain to make tions, which prudence obliges me to pals any farther refiftance! This unhappy over in filence, until the circumftances of prince was about twenty-four years old. this ftrange event are laid amply before He was the eldest fon of Anthony Ulric, the public. The event itself is as fol- fecond brother to the reigning Duke of lows. One Mierenhoff, a lieutenant in Brunfwick, and of Anne, daughter of the regiment of Smolensko, came, with a Charles Leopold, Duke of Meclenburg. detachment of about thirty men, by night, Schwerin, and grand-daughter of Czar the 15th of last month, to the fortrefs of Peter the Great. He was a prince Sluttelburg, where the young prince I of a great fpirit; nor had the hardihips van, or John, was removed fome time of a perpetual ftate of confinement extinago, by the order of the Emprefs, from guifhed that vigour of mind, and those the place of confinement that has been happy talents, which fo eminently characlong allotted to his unfortunate family. terile the illuftrious houfe of Brunfwick. This lieutenant prefented to the governor It is true, the hard fate of the family of the fortress a forged order from the had fomething in it peculiarly affecting Emprefs, to the following purpofe: "That to a generous mind; and lighter calamiher Majefty had formed the refolution of ties have been known to impair the unrefigning the Imperial crown of Ruffia, derstandings of men that were far from and of putting it on the head of Prince wanting courage and refolution. Ivan, whom, in confcience, the was ob- has also been alledged, that this was, in liged to acknowledge as the lawful heir a certain degree, the cafe of the late unand fovereign of Ruffa, and that the happy victim of Ruffian barbarity; but therefore commanded the governor to fet this is a mistake, and perhaps his untimethe Prince at liberty." The governor, ly end will be confidered by many as, at looking upon this declaration as an im- leaft, a prefumptive evidence that he was pofture, refused to comply with it, fhut no idiot. Few, indeed, have had access the gates upon Mierenhoff, and ordered to this prince, and few therefore can athis men to arms. Mierenhoff, on the o- teft for or against his abilities; but truth, ther hand, feemed to make preparations like fame, will often force its way for forcing the governor to a compliance. through the best-guarded paffages, fo far, Upon which the latter entered the apart at leaft, as that fome of its reports will ment of the young prince, whom he reach the ears of the public; and accordmurdered in his bed with the most unrelenting to thefe reports the unfortunate Ivan, It whofe |