hald! in yonder study plac'd, Form'd with true principles of tafte, a in learn'd retirement fits, da group of fleeping wits; ng, tho' not on down or chaff, aa book-cafe, bound in calf; Gred with honourable duft,

a medals fpread with precious ruft. ve her a huge folio lies;

adies with quadruple eyes.

e novel stuff'd with love, perchance,
males much affect romance?
Tease of the kitchen taught,
pafties and confections wrought?
Tillotson or Barrow wrote,
by theologues to quote?

her Pray'r-book, or her Bible, knives and blockheads fain would nothing farther from her ftudy, [libel? , that make one's brains quite muddy; teverfe, and full as bad, wilding Fancy run stark mad. maller wits would the despise, with Newton to the skies; ameleon-like, when there, Mimentally on air.

V, whose bold Lyncean eye
Td the whole ethereal sky!
the fair unknown landscape blue
more than mortal pencil drew!
adage prov'd we find,
Earth e'er can fatisfy the mind;
Tad, a ftranger to content,
Beneath the moon ignobly pent.'

, what doth the text require? Tohara ftill let the foul afpire." where abides her treafure, the there her heart should ever be. the fulfils, -in Newton's school, ly pious Chriftian rule. nother reason, why mers affect the fky. vila due acceptance find ty rightcous godly mind. others read with head alert, ads with enlighten'd heart. glories vanith from her eyes, the dear Newton and the skies. thers chariots gilt admire,

mounts Newton's car of fire; through the Mall, her steeds all foam, er heav'n's argent fields, to roam. The arguments our fair, mayhap, th's but a point in Nature's map; toy to Fortune thrown, from the tube the bubble blown;

icle of fand, caft out, boundlefs fpace to roam about; Tom, from its equilibrium toft, matter's mafs collective loft: the dimenfionlefs abyss, Where one world loft we scarcely miss;

An atom, 'till the zephyr fails On which a midge in triumph fails. Why then, ambition all forgot, Inhabit this poor paltry spot; Which meanest reptiles fhare with us, And live, not more a monarch does ?" On fashions Stella feldom talks, Of auctions, fales, or public walks; The ball, affembly, play, or rout, Which half the fex grow mad about: These to the vain fantastic lafs, Who forenoons can at toilets pass, To be lefs charming than before, She leaves, with airs of full threefcore; Sighing, (fcarce, ah! to be confol'd), That fhe is young, and Stella old. On planets, stars, and comets, she Can fcarce one moment filent be; Far other stars than grandee's coat on, Which only unlearn'd females doat on. Newton's arcanas Stella can Sublimely read, like other men; The laws of gravity conceive (While triumphs vaft her bosom heave, Mere household maidens ey'd with fcorn) Better than thoufands-never born; Or when, fometimes, her paffions strong Would gravitate towards the wrong, The force centripetal she knows ; That is, when the puts on her cloaths, That no pin from its hold departs, Nor from her waift the whalebone starts: Centrifugal, when from her eye Sparks of ingenuous paffion fly;

When words, fuch fweets the wild bee fips,
Fly off eccentric from her lips.
Thus, without Euclid, Stella shows
The deep deep mystery she knows,
What words it fitly can exprefs?
To speak (aftonishing!) and drefs.

Nor to yon brighten'd fields of air
Alone fublimely foars our fair;

Whirl'd round, who fays fhe acts her fex ill?
On ev'ry planet's flaming axle;

But condefcends, of problems weary,
To loofe a thought on Burnet's Theory;
Which doubtlefs fhe can understand
Like any-female of our land;
Diftrefs'd, the total who can tell huge ?
To find out waters for the deluge;
Doubting, as if a god of fable,
Jehovah to produce them able.

thinks.

Of thoughts too to improve her stack, She much affects to doat on Locke; (That mortal pitch'd upon to fow Reafon how near divine below); Happy, not from the task he frinks, But for her most humanely. He furely her esteem must share, Who lightens Stella's heavicit car? His Human Understanding, known And comprehended-like her owa, She much extolls; the reason: +4 Because both uniformly — dark.

Not from the truth too wide to start,
From Nature this, but that from Art.

Oh! had the Mufe, with afpect bland,
And bays extended in her hand,
Prefided at her birth, and said,
"Be thou a metre-loving maid;"
Stella had ne'er, to fhow her fenfe,
Shone thus at womankind's expence ;
Expos'd their hours all run to waste,
Their ignorance, and want of tafte;
Their little unafpiring aims,
Content with forry houfe-wife names:
Within a narrow roof confin'd,
The mighty pow'rs of female mind;
Whose best exertions but imply
A jelly, cuftard, or a pye;
Mirrors and pictures rightly plac'd,
Or fideboards garnish'd out with tafte;
Unknown, tho' with brocaded fuit on,
To Hume, to Hutchison, and Newton.
Some chofen topics more, at large,
Our task appointed to difcharge,
To hail their glorious deeds who-fing;
In our next labour we fhall bring :
No fact intentionally mifling,
To prove the Mufe a public blefling.
Meantime, each wit of spirit, show it,
Dare to live poor, and be a-poct.

To the author of the ScOTS MAGAZINE.

THat Hat the following is a juvenile effay, will, I'm afraid, appear too evident; but, if not difagreeable to your readers, I hould be glad to fee it inferted. I am, &c. Ode to PEACE. Jam redit et virgo.

I. 1.

Virg.

Boldly fmite the votive lyre,
And let joy our hearts infpire:
The Fates unfold a fairer scroll;
And happier years begin to roil.
High-mounted on his fiery car,
Retreats the fierce-ey'd God of War:
Alarms, and Fears, and pale Dismay,
And black-brow'd Horror mark his way;
With Carnage foul, and wild Despair;
And dread Confufion throngs the rear.
I. 2.

Now let joy expand the foul,
Happier years begin to roll.

From Heav'n the gracious mandate paft,
And PrACE bids warring nations rest.
Say, lovely Maid, what pathless grot,
From wild Ambition's rage remote;
What lone retreat your fteps detain'd,
While War and madding Difcord reign'd?
Where Oroonoko's rapid wave
Does th' unfrequented valley lave,
With th' artlefs Indian didft thou rove
The orange-glade, or citron-grove;
Where Europe's crimes fhall ne'er invade,
To taint with gore the placid shade ?

I. 3.

Ambition's flaming bolts were hurl'd; And Terror fhook th' aftonifh'd world; Mad Rapine rag'd with threefold wrath, And rous'd the frantic fcream of Death. PEACE Came; her radiant form difplay The blood-ftain'd monsters faw, and fle Impervious clouds involve the midnight And now ferment, now roar aloud; The glaring lightnings flash abroad; And black-wing'd Tempefts rule, and on high.

How foon the crystal gates of day Expand to Phoebus' glowing car, The ftorms retire, the fhades decay, And balmy breezes fkim the air: The fhepherd fwain attunes his Doric lay And wildly-warbling, hymns the rife of

II. 1.

Now reftor'd from dread alarms,
And the direful pomp of arms,
The warrior, crown'd with lafting bays
Enjoys the blissful calm of cafe.
Warm Friendship crowns the rofy bowl
And focial pleasure melts his foul;
And young Love waves his turtle wing
While Mufic fmites the trembling ftring
And laughter-loving maids advance,
To mingle in the mazy dance.
II. 2.

Genial PEACE, to thee belong
Mirth, and dance, and jocund fong!
From haunted groves, and vocal glades
And Helicon's infpiring fhades,
Ye Nine, unite the choral fong;
In feftive measure move along;
And frame the gratulating lay:
TO PEACE, the grateful tribute pay.
Hail, Goddefs of the brow ferene!
Belov'd of thee the tuneful strain :
For in the lucid climes above,
Befide the radiant throne of Jove,
No higher blifs thy bofom knows
Than heavenly Harmony beflows.
II. 3.
Reviv'd by thy propitious aid,
Fair Science lifts her modeft head;
With all her various offspring join'd,
To pour new favours on mankind.
As fofter'd by the vernal showers,
Up fpring the many-tinctur'd flowers:
In lovelieft raiment fmiles th' Arcadian v
Here vermil blufhes paint the rofe,
And there the fnowy lily blows;
And choiceft sweets perfume the vagrant g
Long may the golden periods run!

Long, Goddefs, to the fons of men, Be all thy tranquil pleasures known ;

While Difcord bites the galling chain, And direful Tart'rus, from its utmost bou The hideous howling of his wo refounds CALEDONI

Perthfire, April 1763.

H

HISTORY.

regard to POLAND we have the two following articles.

Werfaw, Jan. 25. On the 17th of month, being the anniversary of Count atowski's birthday, that lord, who is e of the afpirers to the throne of Poland, censed from the Empress of Ruffia, by the s of the Prince de Repnin, minifter potentiary of her Imperial Majelty, a ent of two fuperb coaches, each drawn borfes, and harneffed, one with the other with filver; as also of two of diamond buttons for a Polilh haa large brilliant, in form of a button, the collar of his fhirt; and a fabre orented with precious stones." "London, Feb. 20. The candidate for the crown of Poland who is most favoured bte court of Vienna, is the Count Pod. The Ruffian ambassador latelented this prince, in his fovereign's , with the collar of the order of St Andrey, and at the fame time made him Art from her of a gold-hilted fword diamonds, and a purfe of 9000

The next is from PETERSBURG, dated theth of December last year. "The commiffaries who are appointed her Imperial Majefty to overfee the fr imbellifhing this capital, have made the following propofals to all the arof this city, whether natives or Gen. They fhall each have [rereaplan of the town, as it is at pre2. They hall, in the space of Cree months, prepare two plans; one of ety as it is, pointing out the alteraeceflary for its imbellishment; the er, of a quite new town; and in both Call obferve to detach the city from euburbs by proper limits, and add an tanation of the plan in the Ruffian lange. 3. Thefe plans and explanations be expofed to the public for a fort, and each candidate fhall be at lity to examine them, and fend in writo the commiflioners, but without ag himself known, remarks on them. 4 The commiffioners, after mature deeration, will decide which is the best; the perfon whofe plan obtains the reference, fhall be employed in the exetion of the work; but each of the oe, whofe plans are rejected, will reve a gratification proportioned to his

aerit."

As to GERMANY, the preliminary conVOL. XXVI.

ferences of the Electors for chufing a King of the Romans, were opened at Frankfort on the 6th of February, and their deliberations were to continue till the 25th. The Emperor himself was to be prefent on the occafion, with a grand retinue; and people of condition had been previously expected in fuch crouds, that lodgings were let at a most extravagant rate. The court of Vienna reckoned fo certainly on the Archduke Jofeph being elected, that great preparations were making for his coronation in a very magnificent manner.

With respect to that affair, we give

two articles, viz.

"Frankfort, Nov. 16. All the public news-papers repeatedly make mention of the approaching Keurverftentag, i. e. diet of the electoral princes, at this place; but the true meaning of that word, as relative to the prefent time and negotiation, not being known to every one, the following illuftration of it may not be unacceptable. The question, Whether, agreeably to the conftitution of the Germanic empire, a King of the Romans may be chofen during the life of a reigning Emperor? had already been a subject of debate in the fixteenth century. In 1531, notwithstanding the ftrenuous opposition of John Elector of Saxony, Ferdinand I. brother to the Emperor Charles V. was raised to that dignity; and at length that election, which had been carried by a majority of votes, was, in 1534, approved of by John and his party, in the convention at Cadan. But this moot point was again brought on the carpet at the treaty of Weftphalia; and in the 8th article of the peace of Oinaburg, $3. it was ftipulated, That the election of a King of the Romans fhould come under deliberation at the next diet, and a decifive refolution be taken concerning it. Pursuant to that article, this important point of the Germa nic conftitution received an abfolute determination in a particular act concerning the election of a King of the Romans. This was unanimously agreed to in a general diet of the empire; and its contents firft took place in the capitulation of election of Charles VI. art. 3. § 11. and was, on the vacancy of the Imperial throne, repeated in the following capitulations of election. It mentions three cafes which legitimate the election of a King of the Romans during the Emperor's life. 1. Great age, or a continuing indifpofition, in the reigning Emperor. 2. His long abfence out of the German empire.

3. A critical exigency on which the pre fervation and welfare of the facred Roinan empire depends. Confequently, it is the laft point which is the most effential object of the approaching meeting of the eJectors, which is termed Keurverftentag We promife ourselves from prefcription, and our charter promises, that both the election and coronation of a King of the Romans will be performed in this city." "Ratibon, Jan. 2. The I...perial minifters have at last, by order of their court, returned the minifter of Saltzburg an anfwer to the remonstrance which he made to them in the name of the college of Princes, concerning the participation which they require in the affair of the eJection. This anfwer, which the mini Aer of Saltzburg has just communicated to the other princes. minifters, is as follows: "That his Imperial Majefty was then employed in finding out an expedient for the content and confolation of the Princes of the Empire, relating to the election of a King of the Romans, without prejudice to the Electoral college, and conlequently of fuch a nature as to avoid all collifion between them."

The minifters of the Princes have defired the minister of Saltzburg to ufe, at this juncture, his utmost endeavours, that the expedient which his Imperial Majefty intends to propofe, may be put in execution in time; and the fame minifter has aflured them he has already folicited the con-commiffary very ftrongly, that this affair may be decided before the opening

of the electoral diet.

tacked the peasants, and, as some accounts fay, routed them: but there are letters which affirm, that he has been routed by them, and had been very near being burned in his bed in a castle to which he retired. It is on all hands agreed, that there has been a bloody execution of upwards of fixty perfons, in which, howe ver, the civil government of the province had no concern; and that great numbers of the peasants had retired into the Turkifh territory, and had demanded the protection of the Grand Signior."

"Feb 6. We have various accounts of an infurrection in Tranfylvania; and by the fresheft advices it appears, that the peofants have beat the Austrian forces, and fet fire to a caftle in which the Governor had taken fhelter, who faved him felf by leaping out at a back window. Nine hundred of thofe peasants, who had been inlifted by force, are gone into the Turkish fervice; a greater number have taken the route of Walachia; and the ref ftand their ground in thick woods, where they can maintain a bufh-fight with any regular troops."

They write from Fleffinguen, a DUTCH fea-port town, of Feb. 15. thus. "Two hips arrived here yesterday from Surinam. When they came away, the news from Berbices [7] was, that the rebels, having fet fire to the plantations of Stevenburg, and likewife to Fort Naffau, were retired to the plantation of Peerboon, where they feemed to be preparing to make a vigorous defence. The fhip of Capt. Dahm arrived at Berbices the 19th of November, and had landed the foldiers, am munition, and provifions, when the above advices came away."

In regard to the affairs of FRANCE, "C fhall allo give fome articles verbatim. Extract of a letter from a French officer in

Paris, dated Jan. 5.

ia

"The pride and vanity of the Irish in our fervice has lately received a mortal blow. It is now decided at court, confequence of tome representations made by the late Marthal Thomond, who was himself an Irishman, that Irish nobility fhall be looked upon for the future as a mere impofition. By this means all the Irith officers in our fervice muft henceforward date their commiflions and their nobility from the fame day: by this means they will be looked upon as a mob of plebeian impoftors, and univerfaliv fcorned as fuch: and by this means, get

get rid of them. I wish we could likewise et rid of all our foreign troops in one Eraught. There can be no hopes of French liberty, while thefe hirelings are roading in upon us. If the caufe of tynov, fuperftition, and defpotifin, was uted in French hands alone, you should x bear of good sport. How Irappy are You Hugonots, to have been banished from a country of flaves, into a country of freemen?" Ledger.

Paris, Feb. 1. The Archbishop of Ps having acknowledged the Paftoral Inftruction, occafioned by the incroachments made on the authority of the church, by the ular tribunals, in the affair of the Fejai, to be his; the parliament ordered al the Peers to be fummoned for Monday the 23d paft, to confider of this matter. The affair being accordingly brought on the carpet, the first prefident (who had gone to afk the King that he would be pleafed to be prefent in his parliament this day) reported from the King, "That he had punished the Archbishop [by ba fing him]; and that it was his plea fure that they fhould proceed no further against him." Whereupon the parlia ment refolved to prefent remonftrances on this head. The Inftruction itself was burat by the common hangman next day." Lindon, Feb. 14. Letters from Paris fay, that the court of France obferves an impenetrable fecrecy, with regard to the destination of feveral fquadrons of fhips fitting out in the different fea

which are

ports of that kingdom.”

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Marfeilles, Feb. 3. The Chevalier de Fabry took leave of the Dey of Algiers [xxv. 569. 625.683.] the 19th of laft month, and failed towards the ftreights, after having difpatched letters to France by the Topafe frigate. The Chevalier landed the toth of January, to have his first audience of the Dey; who received him with great diftinction, and feemed fincerely difpofed to terminate all differ ences in an amicable manner. The Dey himself announced to the French commandant the orders which had been given to re-establish the conful, to release all the French who had been arrested, and to take off the fequeftration which had been put on the effects of the African company; and figned with the Chevalier de Fabry a formal convention, to obviate every thing which might hereafter occafion the leaft diffenfion between the two nations, and to infure the liberty of the navigation and commerce of the French in the ports of the regency: fo that a good understanding is now re-established on an advantageous and folid footing. During the Chevalier de Fabry's ftay at Algier, he received the most courteous and obliging treatment from the Dey, who made him a prefent of two lions and two tygers, and fent him every day, as well as the French conful, all forts of provifions."

Loudon, Feb. 27. They write from Paris, that on the 4th init. the three councils, of ftate, of dispatches, and of the finances, met to decide the fate of the Eaft-India company. The refult of the meeting was, That the King could not affift the company either at prefent or hereafter; that the company muft de-, Ever in a state of the fume due to it, and of the fums in which it ftands indebted to others; that after examining these actounts, his Majefty would let them know refolution, whether he would withdraw their charter or not, and take uphimfelf the payment of their debts; and that in the mean time they must connue to pay the dividends to the ftockolders on the footing of forty livres. The French acknowledge, that they fent ut of the kingdom last year not less than fteen millions (above 600,000 1. Sterg) for goods with which they ufed to was in its flourishing state." te fupplied by that company, when it

In relation to CORSICA we give two. articles, which have been lately received, in these terms.

Leghorn, Fan. 2. They advife from Corfica, that the pieve of Calenza has

withdrawn f om the dominion of the Genoefe, and fubmitted to that of the malecontents. Paoli haraffes the Genoefe greatly by his troops and his corfairs: A circumftance which inclines the repu blic to haften the conclufion of its treaty with France."

Utrecht, Feb. 23. Letters from Leghorn fay, that Paoli has founded an university in Corfica."

ENG LAND. According to a letter from London, of Jan. 21. the minority fufpecting Mr Wilkes of a defign of difclofing their fecrets, offered him 500 1. per ann. during life, provided he would make his efcape beyond fea, and never again appear in Britain: but Mr Wilkes thinking this provifion inadequate, abfolutely refused to move, till they gave him fecurity for 1000 l. per ann. and to pay all his debts. [52.]

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