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Creech, POETRY. MIND. I WEIGH not Fortune's frown or fmile; I feek not ftate, I feek not ftyle; I am not fond of Fancy's toys; I fee ambition never pleas'd, I fee fome Tantals ftary'd in ftore: I fee e'en Midas gape for more. I fawn not on the great in fhow; Neither too lofty, nor too low; ON THE DEATH OF THE REV. BY HELEN MARIA WILLIAMS. PLAC'D 'midft the tempest, whose conflic- The buoyant form of Gallic Freedom braves, mourn. what he forgave, the critic eye forgives, Scourge of his nature, and its worst digrace, Congenial audience found in hollow friends; Which his fevereft virtue best could vield; His were the lavish stores her force fublime And his, the moral worth to which is given * Mifs W. took refuge in Switzerland during the reign of Robespierre. On bed of new mown hay, or fern, or fod; No matter; each a tribute of thy love; And waft thy incense to the throne above. The following Burlesque of Horace's "Otium di- EASE is the pray'r of him, who, in a whale- Not ftruck his blanket*, not a friendly island Eafe is the wifh too of the fly Canadian; wampum, Nor paper money. Lac'd regimentals. heim, To fear a stranger, and to wild ambition, as a fail. ' Why, like fine fellows, are we ever scheming ? mates Warm'd by new funs? O, who that runs from Care climbs radeauxt with four-and-twenty Nor quits our light troops, or our Indian war- Pufhing the clouds on. Death instantaneous hurried off Achilles; Thee twenty mefs-mates, full of noife and Cheer with their fallies; thee the merry damfels Please with their titt'ring; while thou sitt'st Boots, fafh, and gorget. + Floating-batteries used on Lake Cham< plain. tear. But though the tall fhip waft my body o'er, From this lov'd land though Mary's doom'd to part; Condemn'd to dwell on some bleak, barren Yet you, and you alone, poffefs my heart. The foldier's blanket; used by the army Still haunts thofe fcenes of happiness and love, VOL. LVIII. STATE PAPERS. London, April 11. THE following very important papers were communicated by Lord Grenville to all the Foreign Minifters refident at this Court. They are the contents of the dispatches received on Friday laft, from Mr Wickham, his Majefty's Envoy to the Swifs Cantons; and appear to be the refult of the meafures which Mr Pitt fome weeks fince announced to be in train, for ascertaining the real difpofition of the French Directory, on the queftion of peace or war; which refult is unhappily of such a nature, as to leave no other alternative to his Majefty and his Minifters, than that of continuing the war with unabated vigour. NOTE tranfmitted to M. Barthelemi, by Mr Wickham. THE undersigned, his Britannic Majefty's Minifter Plenipotentiary to the Swifs Cantons, is authorised to convey to Monf. Barthelemi, the defire of his Court to be made acquainted, through him, with the difpofitions of France in regard to the object of a general pacification. He therefore requefts Monf. Barthelemi to tranfmit to him in writing (and after having made the neceffary inquiries), his answer to the following queftions: 1. Is there the disposition in France to open a negociation with his Majefty and his Allies for the re-establishment of a general peace, upon juft and suitable terms, by fending, for that purpose, Minifters to a Congrefs, at fuch place as may hereafter be agreed upon? 2. Would there be the difpofition to communicate to the undersigned the general grounds of a pacification, fuch as France would be willing to propofe; in order that his Majesty and his Allies might thereupon examine in concert, whether they are such as might ferve as the foundation of a negociation for peace? 3. Or would there be a defire to propofe any other way whatever, for arriving at the fame end, that of a general pacification? The undersigned is authorised to receive from Monf. Bathelemi the anfwer to thefe queftions, and to tranfmit it to his Court: But he is not in any manner authorifed to enter with him into nego THE underfigned Ambaffador of the French Republic to the Helvetic Body, has tranfmitted to the Executive Direc tory the Note, which Mr Wickham, his Britannic Majefty's Minifter Plenipotentiary to the Swifs Cantons, was pleafed to convey to him, dated the 8th of March. He has it in command to anfwer it, by an expofition of the fentiments and disposition of the Executive Directory. The Directory ardently defires to procure for the French Republic a juft, honourable, and folid peace. The ftep taken by Mr Wickham would have afforded to the Directory a real fatisfaction, if the declaration itself, which that Minifter makes, of his not having any order, any power to negociate, did not give room to doubt of the fincerity of the pacific intentions of his Court. In fact, if it was true that England begun to know her real interefts, that the wifhed to open again for herself the fources of abundance and prosperity; if the fought for peace with good faith; would the propofe a Congrefs, of which the neceffary refult muft be to render all negociations endless? Or would fhe confine herfelf to the asking, in a vague manner, that the French Government fhould point out any other way, whatever, for attaining the fame object, that of a general pacification? Is it that this step has had no other object, than to obtain for the British Government the favourable impreffion which always accompanies the first overtures for peace? May it not have been accompanied with the hope that they would produce no effect? However that may be, the Executive Directory, whofe policy has no other guides than opennefs and good faith, will follow, in its explanations, a conduct which shall be wholly conformable to them. Yielding to the ardent defire by which it is animated to procure peace for the French Republic, and for all nations, it will not fear to declare itself openly.-Charged by the Conftitution with the the execution of the laws, it cannot make or liften to any proposal that would be contrary to them. The conftitutional act does not permit it to confent to any alienation of that which, according to the exifiing laws, conftitutes the territory of the Republic(Chargé par la Conftitution de l'execution des loix, il ne peut faire ou entendre aucune propofition qui y ferait contraire. L'acte conftitutionel ne lui permet de confentir à aucune alienation de ce, qui, d'après les loix exiftantes, conftitue le territoire de la Republique.] With respect to the countries occupied by the French armies, and which have not been united to France, they, as well as other interefts, political and commercial, may become the subject of a negociation, which will present to the Directory the means of proving how much it defires to attain fpeedily to a happy pacification. The Directory is ready to receive, in this refpect, any overtures that fhall be juft, reasonable, and compatible with the dignity of the Republic. Bafle, the 6th of Germinal, the 4th year of the French Republic (26th March). (Signed) BARTHELEMI. NOTE. THE Court of London has received from its Minifter in Switzerland, the anfwer made to the queftions which he had been charged to addrefs to Monfieur Barthelemi, in respect to the opening of a negociation for the re-establishment of general tranquillity. This Court has feen, with regret, how far the tone and spirit of that anfwer, the nature and extent of the demands which it contains, and the manner of announcing them, are remote from any difpofition for peace. The inadmiffible pretenfion is there avowed of appropriating to France all that the laws actually exifting there may have comprised under the denomination * of French territory. To a demand fuch as this, is added an express declaration, that no propofal contrary to it will be made, or even liftened to; and this, 'under the pretence of an internal regulation, the provisions of which are wholly foreign to all other nations. While thefe difpofitions fhall be perfifted in, nothing is left for the King but to profecute a war equally just and neceffary. Whenever his enemies shall manifeft more pacific fentiments, his Majefty will, at all times, be eager to concur in them, by lending himself, in concert with his Allies, to all fuch measures as shall be beft calculated to re-eftablish general tranquillity, on conditions juft, honourable, and permanent: Either by the establishment of a Congrefs, which has been fo often and fo happily the means of reftoring peace to Europe; or by a preliminary difcuffion of the principles which may be propofed, on either fide, as a foundation of a general pacification; or, laftly, by an impartial examination of any other way which may be pointed out to him for arriving at the fame falutary end. Downing-freet, April 1o. BRITISH PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF COMMONS. GAME LAWS. March 4. Mr Curwen, in confequence of the notice previoufly given, rofe to make his motion refpecting the game laws. He was fully fatisfied that the oppreffion of the game laws was only qualified by their impolicy, and that they did not afford that protection to the object which they intended, viz. the game. He adduced the opinion of Justice Blackstone, who held them as inconfiftent with the fpirit of the conftitution. By the miferies of a neighbouring country we ought to gain experience, and endeavour to correct laws tha bore oppreffively on fuch a majority of the nation. He was fure that thofe laws could not be agreeable to any gentleman in that House, and fo very oppreffive were they, that even a dog fubjected them to the penalty. He would fubmit to their confideration, whether, under the prefent fyftem of game laws, they might not be liable to punishment as poachers. So odious were the prefent game laws, that the common people made it a point to extirpate game at all hazards; and by thefe, as much property was neceffary to qualify a man to kill a partridge as to vote for his reprefentative in parliament. He would with in fome measure to revive Pp 2 a fta |