Yet ftill he fills affection's eye, Thy praife to merit unrefin'd. The power of art without the show. The toil of every day füpplied. The single talent well employ'd! Unfelt, uncounted, glided by: And forc'd his foul the nearest way. The INTERVIEW; or, MYRA's WISH. ONE morn as Thyrfis chanc'd to rove In's folitary grove, And thus, unfeen, he heard her fay, "That fuch a lovely fair fhould pray in vain. cence, SIR, Tuch intruction, and may be of ufe to HE following fimple narrative speaks parents and youth. THEOPHRASTUS. A Gentleman in the medical line, was fome time ago afked to vifit a patient, and was conducted by an elderly woman up two or three pair of ftairs, to a gloomy, fhabby, fky-lighted apartment. When he entered, he perceived two young females fitting on the fide of a dirty bed without curtains. On approaching, he found one of them nearly in the agonies of death, fupported by the other, who was perfuading her to take a bit of bread dipped in fpirits. The pale emaciated figure refufed, faving, in a feeble languid voice, That it would but contribute to prolong her mifery, which the hoped was drawing to an end.Looking at the Doctor, the faid, You have come too late, Sir; I want not your assistance. "O could't thou minister to a mind diseas'd, Or ftop th' accefs and paffage to remorse." Here the fetched a deep figh, and dropped upon the bed-Every mean of relief was afforded, but in vain; for in lefs than an hour the expired. In a small box by the fide of the bed were By a Prostitute and a Penitent. My thoughts were rack'd in striving not to Nor Nor could rejected Confcience claim the pow'r Of forc'd enjoyment, in affected luft; shine Awhile, by Sappho's numbers fir'd, I touch'd the languid Lesbian string; Of noble themes I burn to fing: No thought of glory fires his breast: But when he hears the trumpet's found from far, His foul dilates; and, swelling, pants for war. The Rhine's unhappy exiles roam; To quit their dear paternal home: Nor be my weaker fex denied To breathe the glorious patriot ftrain: Since we can boaft, with pleasing pride, The Virgin Queen's triumphant reign; When Tyranny forfook th'enfranchis'd land, And freedom rofe beneath a female hand. With freedom rofe her genuine train ; The Statefman wife, the letter'd Sage, The laurel'd Bard, the chieftain plain; And own'd a new Auguftan age: Around the great Eliza's dreaded throne, victorious Effex, Drake, and Raleigh, shone. Then blameless Wallingham arose, At once his queen's and country's friend; Skill'd to difcern their lurking foes, And from the fecret dart defend: Of empire, mighty Burleigh rise! And, fporting on the banks of Thame, O might thofe glorious days return! Would statefmen, fir'd by Burleigh's With ancient British ardour burn, [name, Scorn felfish views, and pant for fame! Again our conqu'ring arms should Gallia weep, And Albion reign triumphant o'er the deep. Prophetic, lo! my raptur'd mind Beholds, as rolling minutes move, His fafety in his people's love: land! Then o'er Britannia's beauteous isle Shall peace and arts together rife; Shall future Homers reach the skies: Each modeft muse shall raise her drooping head, Nor pine, neglected, in the barren shade. To paint the mead, or murmuring There let me warble ftill my artless lays, Too bleft in beauteous Cecil's † generous praife. The author would not be misunderstood as meaning any disrespeƐ to a name for which fee has the greatest veneration: all fue meant was, to exprefs the hopes, almost universally conceived at the time this ode was written, of a most amiable prince, who died not long after, lamented by a whole peo ple; and, like Titus, left behind him the character of the friend of human kind, Lady Eliz. Cecil. HI HISTORICAL AFFAIR S. DENMARK. Copenhagen, Dec. 16. 1783. The new ifland formed near Iceland [vol. 45. p. 339.] increases daily. There reigns a continual fermentation in the fea in thofe parts, which frequently throws up quantities both of land and rock, which makes it imagined that this ifland may in a few years become large enough to make some settlement upon, as foon as the fires which exhale from it cease. UNITED PROVINCES. · Amfterdam, Dec. 15. Yesterday, from ten in the morning till one in the afternoon, this city was wrapped up in fo thick a fog, that no one remembers to have feen its equal; every thing was in confufion, not one perfon could diftinguifh the way he intended going. This phænomenon caufed feveral fatal accidents many people, and fome coaches, fell into the canals. We know not yet all the unhappy confequences of the many accidents; but the cafe was the fame all over Holland.. This harbour is entirely frozen up, and aftop put to all nautical communication for this feafon: there is every appearance in this country of a long and rigorous feason. FRANCE. Paris, Dec. 15. The affairs of the Caffe d'Efcompte being perfectly reftored to order, the arret of council of the 23d of November hath already fuppref. fed part of the measures which the temporary fhock it experienced in the month of October had rendered neceffary. A fecond arret, iffued on the 10th of December, has effaced all the traits of that epoch, by revoking thofe of the 27th and 30th of September, concerning the Caifle d'Efcompte. lowed by fixty more, from Versailles to Paris, on the last day of the year. London, Feb. 6. The following ex-` traordinary adventure is related in a letter from Metz.-A young girl in love with a foldier of the garrifon, knowing him indifpofed, and obliged to be on duty at midnight during the late incle-' mency of the weather, went to see him, and finding her poor fweetheart quite be numbed with cold, preffed him to go and warm himself in her room, which was not very far, while fhe would remain in his place. The foldier refused for some time, but at laft yielded to the tender fo licitations of his Dulcinea. The moment he was gone, the wrapt herself in his great coat, and began to walk-a la militaire, with the firelock on her shoulder. Unfortunately the round going by, the corporal asked her the order, which not being able to anfwer, the was detected and taken to the guard-house, where the related her ftory. Her lover was imme. diately fetched, and being found almoft dead, though before a good fire, he was revived by means of fome cordial, and put in prison the next morning. He is now going to be tried; and there is no doubt but he will be caft, pursuant to the strictness of military laws. however fuppofed, that he will eafily obtain his pardon. The ladies are earnest in his intereft; and fome of them have already subscribed for the paraphernalia of his mistress, if he chufes to marry her. WEST INDIES. It is From the Barbadoes Gazette. Gentlemen of the Council, Mr Speaker, and "I have called you together in order Paris, Dec. 19. An edict of his Moft to lay before you his Majesty's orders in Chriftian Majefty, for the opening a loan council for regulating the trade and comof 100 millions in life annuities, was re-merce between the people of the British giftered in parliament yesterday. Paris, Jan. 2. 1784. The oldest inhabitant does not remember fo heavy a fall of fnow as we have lately experienced. It is now near four feet deep in the streets; and thefe prodigious fhowers having been fucceeded by a moft intense froft, it is impoffible to go about but in traineaux, fuch as are made ufe of in Ruffia. The King came in one of thefe vehicles, fol. Weft India ifles, and the trade and com merce of the people and territories of the United States of America, which will, I truft, turn out as much to the particular advantage as the general welfare of the empire will admit of. I am also to inform you, that the act of the 21ft of January, declaring the right of eftablishing fees to be only in the three branches of the legiature in their collective body. and of the government of this ifle, has been difallowed by his Majefty, by an order in council, dated June 25. which, by his Majesty's commands, I now lay before you. and for the better fupport of the dignity thefe various fupplies by the hands of the Americans, and yet no British fubjects appear to engage in that commerce foon, or be enabled to carry it on in fuch a manner as that we may be furnished at the former reasonable prices for thofe articles, fo effentially neceflary to our advantage and even existence as a fugar colony; especially at a time when, from the heavy additional burthen of duty laid upon our fugars in the course of the late war, and the reduced prices of that most considerable article of our produce upon the peace, the planters are now fuffering in their property beyond all comparison with their loffes and difadvantages in any former period. The firft of the reafons that induced. this difallowance, is, that the act in queftion contained claufes relative to matters that had no connection with each other; one of which was foreign to the import of the title of the act; and one part of the act was to operate as a perpetual declaratory law, while the other part was in its nature temporary, and no claufes of an incongruous nature fhould be inserted in the fame act. Another still more forcible objection against the operation of this act was, the Affembly having preferred the most ferious charges against the late Governor for establishing fees, which they afferted were illegal. His Majefty was pleafed to refer the fame for the confideration and opinion of the late Board of Trade, and in the very moment the propriety of the conduct of General Cunningham upon this occafion was at iffue before that Board, upon whose representation his Majefty would have proceeded to a conclufive determination, the agent of the Assembly declined the pursuit.” Barbadoes. To his Excellency David Parry, Esq; &c. May it pleafe your Excellency, But it is with fingular regret and concern we attend to your Excellency's farther intelligence, which informs us, "that the act of the 21ft of January declaring the right of establishing fees to be only in the three branches of the legislature in their collective body, and for the better fupport of the dignity of the government of this island, has been difallowed by his Majefty by an order of the Coun cil dated the 25th of June, along with the reasons that induced this difallowance;" for although we fhall not prefume to contend against his Majefty's pleasure in his difallowance of that act, we mult beg leave to avow the jult and faithful motives of our conduct in paffing fuch an act for the fecurity and fatisfaction of the public property, as well as our own much injured rights; for this Affembly could difcover no incongruity in the fenfe of declaring an old established exclufive privilege inherent in the three united branches of our legiflative body, which had been called in question. and invaded, and the exercise of that privilege for a most benevolent purpose in honour to the reprefentative of the, Crown, but which, under any other circumftance than fuch a previous declara. tion, it had been the higheft imprudence in that part of the legislative body which is compofed by this Affembly to have contributed: and whatever may be the particular objections in point of form to the tacking of the two different parts of that act together in one; yet to the form only could any juft objection have been made; and there were circumftances in the cafe, that naturally led the Affembly, from an anxiety to fecure our rights, to fall on the obnoxious mode: but with refpect to the laft, and which is termed the more more forcible, objection to the operation of this act, we difclaim even the very knowledge of the agent's intentions to decline that hearing of our complaint before the Board of Trade, so far from being ourselves chargeable with that injudicious ftep. But taking it for grant ed, what the agent had afferted for his own juftification in that particular, that he had acted by authority; and combining the happy circumftance of our late Governor's recal, which had been one great end of our petition to the Crown, with this prefumption, that no farther conviction of his guilt was wanting in the eye of Majesty, at the period of his difgraceful removal from his government; the Affembly held themselves at liberty to turn to a mode of proceeding, by fuch a declaratory act for their future fecurity, as the records of the British history led them to adopt in times favourable for the reftitution of invaded rights and indifpenfable privileges to a free people. But whatever may be the refult of our proceedings hereafter upon that more interefting point to our own body, this Affembly, Sir, could not fuffer the part of the difallowed act, which related to the fupport of your Excellency's dignity, to be held a moment in fufpenfe; and we rejoice to find, by your Excellency's anfwer to the Speaker's speech upon his prefenting the renewed bill of fettlement, that the fame fpirit of liberality and difinterestedness, which distinguished your Excellency's acceptance of our tribute upon the firft occafion, again breaks forth with a new ray of luftre upon the laft." EAST INDIES. Sir Edward Hughes, in his letter to the Admiralty, dated on board the Superb, in Madras Road, July 25. [See vol.45. p. 686.], mentions the melancholy fate of the Athol Indiaman; and from the accounts it was concluded moft on board had perifhed. Some, however, were preferved, almoft miraculously, a mong whom was the furgeon, a native of Aberdeen, from whofe letter the following particulars are extracted. "The second morning after our arri, val, about feven o'clock, we were a larmed with the cry of fire in the lazaretto, where the fpirits are kept. The flames were already violent, and spreading rapidly: immediately under is the powder-magazine. You can better conVOL. XLVI. ceive than I can defcribe our deplorable fituation; fixty of our feamen impreffed, and only the officers, with a very few who remained, to fupprefs a dreadful fire. We exerted ourselves to the utmoft, hoifted a fignal, and fired guns of diftrefs, which foon brought great numbers to our affiftance. Their efforts feemed at first to be blessed with success; the flames became moderate, and we be gan to think ourselves fecure; fatal fecurity to many! for in about fifteen mi nutes from eight o'clock the ship blew up. I was stunned and thrown down with the explosion, and before I could recover from the shock, a yard fell across me, attended with moft extraordinary torture; my fight failed me; but just as I was finking, I recovered fo far as to stick to the fpar, which was above me, and which luckily,floated me to the furface. Vaft numbers were killed on the quarterdeck, owing to all the fpars which are placed along the middle of the fhip be ing thrown upon it. I was carried on board the Juno frigate, where I was attended with the greatest kindness and humanity, and am now thoroughly recovered, The cause of this dreadful affair was the villany and carelessness of our cooper and steward, who were employed in ftealing liquors. They had ftuck a candle against a beam, which dropping into the bucket full of fpirits, immediately set it on fire, as alfo the puncheon; they attempted to fmother it, by putting in the bung; but it inftantly burft the cafk, and threw the burning spirits all over the lazaretto, which was full of spirits, oil, pitch, and cordage, being only separated by the deck from the magazine, which was directly under it. There were killed by this melancholy accident, feven lieutenants, and ninetyseven petty officers and seamen, belong. ing to the men of war; two officers and twenty-five seamen, belonging to the Indiamen; all our officers, with about fifteen petty officers and feamen, and four paffengers. Mr Rofs, midshipman, being on the poop, escaped unhurt. Many more were faved, but fome with fractured limbs, and others much hurt." Extract of a Letter from a Pallenger on board the Vanfitiart East Indiaman, dated, at fea, Aug. 22. 1783. Yesterday in the forenoon we were alarmed G |