E for the NEW YEAR 1765, Villiam Whitehead, Efq; Poet-Laureat. Sacred to Thee, Commerce, daughter of fweet Liberty, Shall flow the annual firain.Deneath a Monarch's fofering care Thy fails unnumber'd well in air, And darken half the main. From every cliff of Britain's coasts, We fee them toil, thy daring hofts Who bid our wealth increase, Who fpread our martial glory far, The fons of Fortitude in war, Of Industry in peace. On woven wings, [fprings, To where, in Orient climes, the grey dawn Led by the Lord of Day. Whate'er the frozen poles provide, Of herb, or root, or gem, or ore, When Spain's proud pendants wav'd in Western fkies, When Gama's fleets on Indian billows hung, In either fea did Ocean's genius rife, And the fame truths in the fame numbers fung: "Daring mortals, whither tend Thefe vain purfuits? forbear, forbear! Thefe facred waves no keel fhall rend, No streamers float on this fequefter'd air! -Yes, yes, proceed and couquer too: Succefs be yours: But, mortals, know, Know, ye rath adventurous bands, To crush your high-blown pride, Not for yourselves, or native lands, You brave the feafons, and you stem the tide. Nor Betis', nor Iberus' ftream, Nor Tagus with his golden gleam, Shall infolently call their own The dear-bought treafures of thefe worlds unA chofen race, to Freedom dear, [known: Untaught to injure as to fear, By me conducted, fhall exert their claims, Shall glut my great revenge, and roll them all to Thames." Το on her birthday. His morning at Apollo's fhrine And humbly begg'd he'd condefcend Bright Ruler of the Day, I faid, With frown fevere the god replied, "Thy with, rafh mortal, is denied; Unequal to the arduous task, You know not what it is you ask; This faid, thro' heav'n's pure azure way, The radiant god drove on the day. You fee, CLEORA, I'm forbid HISTORY. TURKY. From the Vistula, Dec. 6. The Turks and the Tartars continue approaching, by little and little, the frontiers of Poland; and we believe it will not be long before the world becomes acquainted with the refolution of the Divan, which has hitherto been kept furprisingly secret. POLAND. Wild, Nov. 2. There is great likelihood, that the fentence pronounced by the general confederacy against Pr. Radzivil, formerly our Waywode, will be executed in all points. Commiffaries arrived here yesterday, to take charge of the adminiftration of that prince's effects, in the name, and on the part of Pr. Czartorinski, great chancellor of this duchy. They have alfo this moment taken poffeffion of the palace in this city, in which Pr. Radzivil made his ufual refidence. London, Dec. 8. The following is the tranflation of a letter, which has been written by the King of G. Britain to his Polish Majesty. SIR, It was with great fatisfaction I learned, by your own letter, the agree able news, that your Majefty had been elected King and possessor of the throne of Poland. An election made fo peaceably and fo unanimously, must one day enrich the annals of that kingdom; and your subjects have the greatest reafon to promife themselves every thing from their fove reign, who, in his private travels, having feen the different courts of Europe, and mnade himself acquainted with them, will confequently be the better enabled as a King to conduct his fubjects, to watch over their prefervation, and to defend their laws and their liberties. The pleasure I feel in recollecting the efleem which I conceived for you in private, increases that which I now have to congratulate your Majesty on your advancement to the throne; and I take this opportunity, with great fervency, to affure your Majefty of the fincere friend. hip, with which I am, SIR, your good Friend and Brother, GEORGE. R." Warsaw, Nov. 28 The King of Poland was crowned the 25th inftant, with all the pomp and ceremonies customary on that important occafion. His Majelly received the congratulations of the foreign minifters in the name of their refpective fovereigns, and the next day the homage of the towns of Warfaw and Cracow ; the former place, and four of the latter. and was pleased to knight fix burgeffes of The joy of the nation was teftified by every means poffible, fuch as illuminations, tinue till the opening of the diet. The balis, &c. &c. which will probably confirst acts of fovereignty were, the investing with the order of the White Eagle, Prince Repnin, ambassador from the court of Ruflia, Prince Adam Czartorinski, and the King's brother Abbé Poniatowski. Lond yaz. Dantzick, Dec. 6. We are informed, that the Grand General of the Crown [Count Branitzki], Caftellan of Cracow, has wrote to the King, affuring him of his fubmiflion. He petitioned his Majefty to excufe his non-appearance at his coronation. RUSSIA. twelve experienced geographers lately reThey write from Petersburg, that turned from completing a furvey of the extenfive province of Siberia, which will foon be punished. Their accounts are fo favourable, that public roads are to be made next fummer, at the expence of the Empress. SWEDEN. According to letters from Stockholm, there is no great appearance that the extraordinary diet [399. 512] will answer the intentions of those who took much pains to have it fummoned. The chambers of Eurgefes and Pealants, they fay, will steadily oppofe the naming of a fe cret committee, being fully perfuaded, that foreign alliances, and fubfidy-trea ties, however advantageous they may be to particular perfons, are infinitely detrimental to the nation. It is added, that if the weight of the crown, and of the clergy, be thrown into the popular fcale, there is very little reafon to doubt but that it will preponderate. DENMARK. Cramer, one of the fix learned gen. They write from Copenhagen, that Dr tlemen fent by the King of Denmark into Arabia, and one of the two who furvelling through that country [452.], died vived the fatigues of eight months traat Bombay the 10th of February last. GERMANY. Advices from Vienna intimate, that notwithstanding the frequent affurances given their envoy at Conflantinople, of communicate with the river, having brothe pacific intentions of the Grand Signior, and that a Turkish ambatfador was foon to arrive among them, their miniftry are still not without great apprehenfions of the Porte, and that the prefent movements of the Turks and Tartars are defigned against the house of Auftria, affairs being in all appearance fo happily fettled in Poland, that there can be no occafion for their marching that way. Munich, Nov. 21. By the ordinance of the Elector of Bavaria, our fovereign, which was made public on the 13th, for reviving and extending the mortmain-law of 1672, it is ordered, That no convents or ecclefiaftical communities shall, under L any pretext whatever, whether for the purpose of maffes, anniversaries, pious works, or exercises of devotion, obtain a title for more than 2000 florins at any one time, either in money or effects; That no one perfon fhall make a fecond donation, fo as to exceed that sum: That no penfion to a relation who has taken the vows fhall be above 100 florins ayear, and then to revert back to the law ful heirs: And all eftates of inheritance which fhall fall to a religious, thall likewife fall to the heirs. The foundlinghofpitals, and establishments for the poor and fick, parith-churches, ecclefiaitical feminaries, schools and the benefices founded by fecular priests, are not included in this ordinance. Temporal eftates in foreign countries are not prohibited. Fraternities approved by the fovereign are not to acquire more than 50 florins at a time. Offences against this ordinance are to be punished by forfeiting double the fum obtained, over and above the allowance of 1000 florins. Rati bon, Dec. 3. The ordinance lately published by the Elector of Bavaria, was occafioned by the great acquisitions obtained by the monafteries at Munich, which during the last fifty years amount to five millions. London, Dec. 18. All things are fettled to the latisfaction of our court, in regard to the administration of the bishoprick of Ofnaburg_during the minority of the Prince Bishop. ken down the banks which divided them. The mathematical prize-queftion propofed by the academy of Sciences at Berlin, is, An explanation of the power by which the machine commonly called Archimedes's forew raifes water, together with the means of improving that machine. The prize is a gold medal of fifty ducats value; the memoirs to be tranfmitted to M. Formey, perpetual fecretary to the academy, before the 1st of January 1766; and judgment will be declared on the 31ft of Vay of the fame year. The authors are defired, instead of naming themfelves, only to put a motto on their memoir, adding a sealed note, containing the motto, their name, and refidence. FRANCE. Paris, Nov. 23. We learn from Breft, that this week' a thip of 64 guns was lanched there; and they continue, without any butle, to build other hips of war in all our ports on the ocean. Advice from Paris, of Dec. 7. inform, that an edit of the king had just been registered by the parliament of that city, by which his Majefty diffolves the fociety of Jefuits for ever, but permits them to remain in his kingdom as individuals, in fubjection to the fpiritual power of the priests of the places where they refide, on conforming themselves to the laws, and behaving themselves in all respects as becomes good subjects. By the fame edict an entire and perpetual stop is put to all criminal proceedings that have been commenced against them on any account whatever. Pofterior accounts bear, that transports have been lately engaged, in most parts of the kingdom, to carry over Jefuits, and their effects, to Paraguay in South America, where the fociety have a very extenfive and flourishing fettlement. On the 10th of December, the Archbishop of Paris was at Versailles, to pay his compliments, and to thank the King for recalling him from his exile [60.]. That prelate is now returned to his epilcopal palace in Paris. They write from France, that the injurious practice of one part of the naval According to fucceffive accounts from powers of Europe fupplying the Barbary the Lower Elbe, an earthquake had fwal-states with ammunition and warlike stores, lowed up thirty acres of land in the neigh bourhood of that river, fubftituting in its place a lake of the fame furface, and above forty fathoms deep. This lake afterwards extended itself fe greatly, as to in order to enable them to prey upon the other, is foon like to be entirely laid afide, no lefs than three very fevere remonftrances having lately been dispatched to different courts on this fubject. ITALY. The malecontents of Corfica renewed the fiege of St Fiorenzo, and undertook that of Macianaggio, ufing their utmoft efforts to make themselves mafter of thefe two places before the arrival of the French troops; but without effect. Porto Ferajo, Nov. 26. On account of the approaching arrival of the French troops in the inland of Corfica, the government thought it neceffary to convoke an affembly of the principal members of the ftate, to deliberate upon the measures neceffary to be taken upon fo important an occafion. They met accordingly the 23d of October; and the refult of their deliberations was, That though his Moft Chriftian Majefty's intentions feemed to be only to defend the places which the Genoefe are poffeffed of in that ifland, they thought it neceffary, for the public fafety, to take the following precautions. 1. That a military committee, compofed of fubjects from each of the provinces, be formed, in order to inforce the obferva tion of the regulations which forbid all communication between the inhabitants of Corfica and thofe of the places belonging to the Genoefe. 2. That the French be prohibited coming into the country on any pretence whatfoever. 3. That all propofals for peace with the republic (hall be abfolutely rejected, unless they will previously agree to the preliminaries propofed in the general affembly, at Cafineca, in 1761. 4. That Pafchal Paoli fhall be charged to make, in the name of the whole country, the most refpectful remonftrances to his Moft Chriftian Maje. fty, upon the damage he will do the country, by fending his troops, at a time when the Corficans were upon the point of driving the enemy entirely out of the island. 5. That in order to give weight to thefe reprefentations, Paoli fhall be charged, at the fame time, to apply to the powers in friendship with this country, for their mediation with his Moft Chriftian Majefty, and to implore their protection, for the defence of their rights and liberties. The court has ordered the vines to be grubbed up in all parts of the kingdon where the lands are proper to be plouglei and lown, excepting only thofe which are planted in the neighbourhood of Lif bon. Some private letters from that ca pital fav, that the court of Portugal, fr from being fatisfied with the reasons al ledged by his Catholic Majefty's minifters for the late warlike preparations of Spain, are indefatigable both in the cabinet and field to render their fufpected views abor tive; more especially as it appears the preparations are chiefly carried on in the most critical frontier-paffes, and great remote from ports the propereft to effe any imbarkation against Barbary, which is given out to be the defign of them. NORTH AMERICA. Quebec, Nov. 12. Col. Bradstreet, on his arrival at Detroit, fent a belt of peace to General Pontiac; but he, like a true hero, depended on his power, and greatly dared his worit, by cutting the belt in pieces at the head of his army, (the la dians); and two days ago an Indian c noe came on board us, who allured s M. Pontiac had assembled all his forces together at St Dufky, and received Col B t ( Genoa, Dec. 10. Yeflerday the French 0: conful received an exprefs from the French [ vice-conful at Diano, with advice of the fun arrival there of twenty-five veffels, with the • We were informed of fix commiffaries from Genoa for Corfica, in May 1761, en to fettle matters; but did not obet accounts of proposals made on 1. bala treal and gover 17631 eet with undaunted courage. He terminated, he could not inhe thought the English were artillery filenced all o d this news may be no peace for theft year more. 1.1. Od. 12. -Gover railing quarters of an hour brought in a verdict for the plainti, with 1500l. damages. [284.] Next day came to be heard in the fame court, the feveral actions in which the Rev. Mr Entick, Meff: Fell and Wilfon bookfellers, and Mr Meredith clerk to Mr Beardmore, were plaintiff, and the Earl of Halifax and others defendants. Verdicts were given by four different juries in favour of the plaintiffs. Mr Entick had 201. damages, Fellol. Wilfon 40 l. and Meredith 2001. London, Dec. 25. By recent letters dt from Jamaica we learn, that there are not di: any grounds for the late report, of orders having arrived from England to permit a trade with the Spaniards [626.1; on the contrary, the cruifers of both nations continue to prevent, as far as is in their CAL power, all communication between the wo nations; which has already thrown a balance of half a million Sterling into. the hands of the French and Dutch merchants in America. EAST INDIES. -tter for Late letters from Holland bear, that accounts had been received of great numebers of European officers having deferted from the fervice of Colim Aly Cawn, and gone over to the Britilh. It is added, te that thofe gentlemen have made fome im si portant and useful discoveries. The fociety in England for promoting Christian knowledge, have received, by Ask the last thips from the Eaft Indies, a most agreeable account of the fuccefs 3 of their mithion upon the coaft of Coromandel; and, in particular, of the conversion of a Pandaram, or Heathen priest, belonging to a noble tribe, and of great intellectual abilities, who is now ploved as a catechist in their fchool at Cudalore. ERICH ENGLAND. orde em [The poftponed articles are now inferted.] meet.] bar рац the a nuary 11. The action, torney, plaintiff, defendunt, for Fal. ca me to be Pratt, int, The jury withdrew, VOL. XXVI. Dec. 11. After a On thele verdicts: it is to be obferved that Mr. Beardmore's 15001. included 10001. formerly recovered against the meffengers, by which Lord Halifax is made liable to make good the verdict against them; Mr Entick had only 20!. damages, becaufe he had already received fatisfaction for the 300 1. given in his cause against the messengers; and Mess. Wilfon and Fell have likewife got 300 l. each from the me flengers. [284. 348 405.] At half an hour past fix o'clock at night, Nov. 20. two men, one named Fand the other B, followed by four others, went into Mr Eddowes's houfe in Scotland Yard, Whitehall, saying, They to feek there had orders from Lfor, arreft, or take, alive or dead, (as F bin felf faid), the Chevalier D'Eon [405.]. They caine up into the diningroom, where they found Mrs Eddowes and two gentlemen: they began by ordering, in L-'s name, all the doors in the house to be opened. Mrs Eddowes answered, Gentlemen, do your duty, but take care what you do; the room oppofite to this, contains papers and money The Chevalier belonging to the King. D'Eon is not here; it is more than two months fince I have feen him." Which not regarding, they forced open the door, broke it, and even would have opened the bureau and the clofet, containing the faid papers and money; and not finding in that room what they fought for, (the Chevalier D'Eon), they made a fearch by force through the whole houfe: they had the affurance to threaten Mrs Eddowés, and carried their violence even into Mr. Eddowes's room, who has been -bed-ridden these fix years. Never was infult carried to fuch excefs as that of F—————, B—————, and heir crew, during Fis an officer; are than an hour. -a fervant to -, a king's mellenwas the perfon who ordered B cer to break open the door of Mr 4 T Eddowes's |