The

The fame fair fadeleris dead and drear s
fun that nurtures here,
Spreads AFRIC
The breeze that here but curls the flood,
At GREENLAND freezes up the blood.
Be ours the little task of life,
From all around to banish strife;
To wipe away the starting tear,
Nor let one figh affail our ear;
To cafe the pallied arm of toil,
And bid athletic labour fmile;
Tenacious of the virgin laws,
To plead the bathful lover's cause ;
But oh! forbid, indulgent power,
In youth and love's too fervent hour,
Should STRET HON tell an artful tale,
And fhould the facred bulwark fail,
One moment Sylvia step aftray,
And Love, the hallow'd theme, away,
Forbid ftern juftice to purfae,
For who can love and reafon too?
Or who can tell the woes that pour
Succellive from that fatal hour?
Who but the drooping fair can tell,
Whom fate has doom'd to love too well?
Be ours to bring the wandering dame
Again to confidence and fame;
So fhall ingenuous tears be shed
Where fate decrees our deathful bed,
So be that moment's flitting scene,
Like this fair evening, view, ferene :
For fee, my fair, the jocund fun
Has fearce a little hour to run,
While on these roseate banks we lay,
On Love's light pinions flew the day;
A crimson tint illumes the wood,
And purple beams the diftant food,
Till, all in mifty eddies loft,
It opens on the whiten'd coast;
Oblique the village smoke afcends,
The bat her dufky circuit bends,
Whilft homeward hies the weary swain,
And drags behind a shadowy train;
The herd along the dewy mead
In one flow winding pace fucceed;
The dews fall damp, the zephyr dies,
And Night and Silence rule the skies.
S. C*****

Gent. Mag.

Orlando Furiofo: Tranflated from the Italian of Lo dovico Ariofto; with Notes. By John Hoole. In 5 vols. 8vo. 11. 115. 6 d. Buckland.

THE beauties and faults of the Furiofo, which has procured to its author the appellation of Divine, are too well known to be here difcuffed. Nor thall we trace the remote fources of chivalry, from which it was drawn, or refer to the Orlando Innamorato of Boyardo, on which it was founded. Confining ourfelves to the prefent verfion, we hall only obferve, of the two English tranf lations that have preceded it, that Sir John Harrington's, in the reign of Queen Elifabeth, antique as it is, is more known, and has more merit, with many good judges, than Mr Hoole feems difpofed to allow it:

and not the leaft is its retaining the fame
form of verfification as the original. Of the
other translation (by Mr Huggins, publish-
ed in 1757) nothing more need be faid than
that it is literal. The prefent, rejecting the
octave stanza of the Italian, has adopted the
English couplet, which, feems, in our opis
nion, lefs fuited to romance, and has 3
fameness and monotony that, in a long work,
must tire the ear. The whole, however, is
executed with spirit and corre&nels; and
is fuch as might be expected from the tranf
lator of Taffo and Metaftafio.The specimen
we fhall felect, is that luxuriant defeription
of the beauty of Alcina, in book 7, which
Dolce, in his Dialogue on Painting, has qua
ted at large, as an idea of perfect beauty. I
"Her matchless person every charm com
bin'd,

Form'd in th'idea of a painter's mind.
Bound in a knot behind, her ringlets roll'a
Down her foft neck, and seem'd like waving
gold.

Her cheeks with lilies mix the blushing tofe;
Her forehead high like polish'd ivory shows.
Beneath two arching brows, with splendour
fhone

Her fparkling eyes, each eye a radiant fun!
Here artful glances, winning looks, appear,.
And wanton Cupid lies in ambush here;
'Tis hence he beads his bow, he points his
dart;

'Tis hence he steals th'unwary gazer's heart.
Her nofe fo truly fhap'd, the faultless frame
No envy can deface, no art can blame.
Her lips beneath, with pure vermilion bright,
Prefent two rows of orient pearl to fight.
Here those foft words are form'd, whose
power detains

Th'obdurate foul in love's alluring chains;
And here the fmiles receive their infant birth,
Whole fweats reveal a paradife on earth.
Her neck and breast were white as falling
fnows;

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Round was her neck, and full her bofom rofe.
Firm as the budding fruit, with gentle fwell,
Each lovely breast alternate rose and fell..
Thus, on the margin of the peaceful feas,
The waters heave before the fanning breeze.
Her arms well-turn'd, and of a dazzlinghue,
With perfect beauty gratify'd the view.
Her taper fingers long and fair to fee,
From ev'ry rifing vein and fwelling free;
And from her weft below, with new delight,
Her fleader foot attracts the lover's fight.
Not Argus felf her other charms could spy,
So clofely veil'd from every longing eye;
Yet may we judge the graces the reveal'd
Surpaff'd not thofe her modeft garbeonceal'd;
Which ftrove in vain from fancy's eye to hide
Each angel charm that feem'd to heaven
ally'd.”a dard

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Ndignant Fancy, who with fcorn furvey'd
The fleepy honours to proud System paid,
Smiling to fee that on her rival's brow
The poppy lurk'd beneath the laurel bough,
Refolv'd in sportive triumph to difplay
The rich extent of her fuperior fway:
From necromancy's hand, in happiest hour,
She caught the rod of vifionary power;
And, as aloft the magic wand the rais'd,
A peerless bard with new effulgence blaz'd,
Born every law of Syftem to disown,
And rule by Fancy's boundless power alone.
High in mid air, between the moon and earth,
The Bard of pathos now, and now of mirth,
Pois'd with his lyre between a griffin's wings,
Her fportive darling Ariofto fings,

As the light cloud, whofe varying vapours fly,
Driven by the zephyr, of the evening fky,
Fixes and charms the never wearied view,
By taking every shape, and every hue;
So, by variety's fupreme controul,
His changefuloumbers charm the willing foul:
Enchanted by his fong, Attention fits,
With features catching every caft by fits;
Like the fond infant, in whofe tender brain
Young fenfibility delights to reign;
While rapid Joy and Pain each other chace,
Through the foft muscles of its April face.
In vain the flaves of System would discard
From Glory's claffic train this airy bard;
Delighted Nature her gay favourite crown'd,
And Envy's clamour in her plaudit drown'd.
Severe Morality, to cenfure mov'd,

PROLOGUE to REPARATION, a Comedy.
Spoken by Mr Lewis, in the character of an
Old Woman. By E. Topham, Efq;

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ST
Tart not, good folks!—I'm only come a-
You know the fair fex ever will be doing;
wpoing-

mon

In Moliere's days, the practice was most com-
For men to truft their works to fome old
[woman,
Whose matron counsel, and approving choice,
Secur'd their favourite bard the public voice.
Will this bright circle then, who round me
fit,

Deny my power of giving weight to wit ?
Is there a gallant fwain who dares repine,
Struck by the luftre of an eye like mine?
Oh, no! thank Heav'n!the baby-rage is
And elder Ladies captivate at laft: [paft,
The full-blown dame, who rules o'er ton
and taste,

With rouge for rofes, and for lilies, paste,
Now reigns the Ovid of a new-made school,
To teach young gentlemen-to play the fool.
If in the tender paffion then we fhine,
And age can give us "fmacks" as well as wine,
No wonder that the Fashion is becoming,
And Church, Law, Politics, have their old

women,

Our Bard to night, all anxious for his fate, Begg'd th' indulgence of a tête-a-tête : First I was coy-but women will give way, He faw me tender, and produc'd his play: Requested I would make his cafe my own, And plead a desp'rate cause before the town. His wanton lyre with jufter blame reprov'd: Well, then, to speak at once my real mind, But his fweet fong her anger fo beguil'd, For, on my virtue! I can't be unkind, [pear, That ere she finish'd her reproof, the fmil'd. Save fome old jokes which now and then ap And drop in Parliament as well as here; STANZAS by the late Alexander Thistle I truft this Houfe will take the Treafury fide, thwayte, Efq: Knight of the Shire for Hants, Let the debates go on and not divide. occafioned by bis meeting a man loaded with But as the fcenic Sifters long have varied, Jacks and an oak bough in his hat, on the 29th And as we with our measures may be carried, of May (Charles II.'s Reftoration); not un- To stop the mouths of Critic Opposition, applicable to the present ftate of the nation. We form a Tragi-Comic Coalition. Water and wine-a beverage half and half— P. With King or Restoration? Broad Humour just peeps in to make you laugh,

DR fellow! what haft thou to do

'Twill make no difference to you, Whoever rules the nation.

Still must thy neck fupport the load,

Still earn thy bread with toil;
Still must thou pace the felf-fame road,
And great ones fhare the spoil.
The afs may carry brooms or men,
Juft at his mafter's will; :

But let him change, and change again,
His lot's a busthen stillate

Still minifters will tyrannife,
And courtiers ftill be knaves;
Walpoles on Walpoles fhall arife,
And keep thy grandsons flaves.

Still governments have been the fame, [The fame (hall ever ber

Ev'a kings are nothing but a name,
Aad fo is liberty.

While, intermix'd, the tender scenes appear,
Todraw from Beauty's eye Compaflion's tear.
Such is our author's plan-if trite or common,
Condemn me as a doting falfe Old Woman!
But mark the Critic, who appears my Bard,
May claim a "chafte falute" as his reward.
EPILOGUE. Spoken by Mifs FARREN.
By the Same.

IVE difmal Acts confum'd in lamentation,

Four Author marries me for Reparation!

Well, tho' we women are, as gray beards
In duty bound to love and to obey, [fay.
And tho befet with cares of brats and ftrife,
Repent is ftill the lot of married life,
With lefs difmay I meet the awful fentence,
Since wedlock puts an end to my repentance.
From

From this bright hour fhall gayer scenes HISTORICAL AFFAIRS,

arife,

Such as may charm a female Patriot's eyes,
Whole great ambition foars to nobler plans,
Than goats-beard tippets, or than Marlbrouk

fans!

Whofe tafte, the rage for Opera can defy,
And bear to live-tho' Piechierotti die;
With strange ill-bred indifference can view
Veftris on one leg, or the dogs on two.
But as the women are forbid to roam,

And tho' we will speak laft-must speak at
home,

To fpoufe I delegate my vocal powers,
He knows my voice-and hears it at all hours.
Thus-hat in hand, and poiz'd upon one
leg,

He'll start with Mr Speaker! Sir,-Ibeg."
"One word."-O hear him! hear him ! "I defy
The honourable Member in my eye!"

fhawl

Then o'er the Indian plains his forces rally,
Rave about Tippoo Saib and Hyder Ally:
While 1, the Member's wife, fhall bear a
[hall;
Given by fome ponderous Prince of Leaden-
Or, up at night, with fresh impatience wait
To read next noon the Chronicl'd Debate,
Where in good style, and better words con-
vey'd,

Spouse wonders at the fpeeches he has made,
And with the borrow'd grace enamour'd
grown,
[own.
States o'er the tropes and figures-not his
Such is the potent spell that all bewitches,
"For who would fardals bear?—that could
make fpeeches.
[lye,
Who brook th' oppreffer's wrong, the proud man's
When he might rife again with-I reply?
Or who wou'd groan beneath life's weary prate,
Who quietly might fleep thro' a debate?"
But there are charms from oratory flow,
Which thofe who only bear, can never know.
Yet left I prefs too long the Speaker's art,
Pak me your vote of Thanks! and I depart.

THE AIR BALLOON. land, them travel, as

as lift,

TURKY,

Conftantinople, Dec. 10. 1783. We have had feveral accounts of the plague fince laft poft; notwithstanding which the mortality is almoft entirely ceased. We now flatter ourselves that the cold wea ther may put a total ftop to the conta gion, which has coft this city at least 80,000 inhabitants fince laft June. L. gaz.

Conftantinople, Fan. 20. 1784. The plague ftill continues; but it is hoped that the prefent remarkable cold weather will deftroy the infection. Lond. gaz.

St James's, Feb. 11. A meffenger arrived this morning from his Excellency Sir Robert Ainslie, his Majefty's ambarfador at Conftantinople, with an account of the pacification between Ruffia and the Ottoman Porte being happily accom plifhed; and that a definitive arrangement was figned by Monf. de Bulgakow, the Ruffian envoy, and the Ottoman minifters, on the 8th of last month. L.gaz. Treaty of Peace between Russia and the Ports

"The Imperial Court and the Sublime Ottoman Porte, defirous of feizing every occafion which can tend to conciliate and eftablish a perfect harmony and friendship between the two powers; and confidering the new face of affairs, and ftate of things in the Crimea, at Taban, and in Cuba, are likely to occafion difcuffion, and perhaps a rupture between the two powers; the above Imperial and Ottoman courts have refolved to come

to a friendly negotiation on faid fubject; fidered them, are ardently defirous of and after having duly weighed and conpreventing, for the future, any subject of contention between them; and also, to fecure the advantages of a folid and happy

B dad byfte, those who like the hard fare; peace, of good neighbourhood and ella

In an airy Balloon, whilft I fit at my cafe,
And pleasantly glide thro' the air!
Round this globe is the fartheft they ever can
reach,

Let them travel night, morning, and noon;
Such excursions as thefe are but mere bagatelles,
When compar'd with a trip to the moon!
In my chariot aerial, how pleasant to go,
To fee all my friends in the stars :-
Take a breakfast with Mercury, and dine, if
I please,

With Jupiter, Saturn, or Mars!
And should I fatigued, or wearifome prove,
When from planet to planet I'm dodging;
With Venus I'm welcome to tarry all night,
Where on earth can you find fuch a lodging?
VOL. XLVI.

blished commerce, have found it neceffary to regulate their future measures upon a folid and permanent foundation.

In consequence of these resolutions, the above powers having fully explained themselves each to the other on the a bove fubjects, and defirous of ftipulating the present treaty under the moft folemn engagements and exact obfervance, have chofen, and furnished with full powers to complete the faid treaty, the following perfons, namely, her Imperial Majefty, the Moft Auguft and Moft Powerful Emprefs and Sovereign of all the Ruffias, has named on her part, the High

N

and

Warfaw, he received from the Polish commiffary, Count d' Unruh, a declaration of the city to the following purport: That the feveral orders of the city would be found ready and willing to allow a free paffage upon the Viftula, and the high roads, for all kinds of provifions for the Pruffian subjects living about Dantzick, faluo jure tempore illimitato, till the conclufion of the negotiation, which was to be carried on there under the mediation which her Majefty the Empress of Ruffia had graciously condefcended to grant to the city. This arrogant declaration, not only contrary to his Majefty's moft juft demands, but framed in direct oppofition to the defire of the Empress of Ruffia, and the King of Poland, and containing not lefs than five reftrictions, would have fufficiently juftified his Majefty to continue the reprisals commenced against the city of Dantzick. However, his Majefty having confidered, that the magistrate of Dantzick, according to all circumftances, is not able to form any well-digefted refolution, nor to exercife any authority over the citizens; that their declaration refpecting the free paffage, whether limited or not, on account of the froft having put a stop to the navigation, would be of no confequence; that the feat of the negotiation has been transferred from Dantzick to Warfaw; and that the continuation of the blockade during the fame would fall too hard upon, and be the deftruction of the country people inhabiting the territory of Dantzick, and make them fuffer for the obftinacy of the citizens, who think themfelves fufficiently sheltered behind their fortifications; his Majesty's wellknown generofity, and particularly his regard for the mediation of her Majefty the Emprefs of Ruffia and the King of Poland, induced his Majefty to order Gen. d'Egloftein to difcontinue for fome time the blockade; but at the fame time to deliver to the Polish commiffary, Count d'Unruh, the following written declaration, to be forwarded by him to the magiftrate of Dantzick.

"The commiffary of the King of Poland, Count d'Unruh, delivered to the Pruffian refident Mr Bucholtz, Jan. 9. being the day before his return to War aw, a memorial of the magiftrates of Dantzick, which fhould contain their acknowledgement of the intermiflice falso , and the purport of which is as folW: That the orders of the city of

Dantzick would be found willing to allow a free paffage upon the Viftula, and the high roads, for all kinds of provifions, for the Pruffian fubjects in the environs of the city, alvo jure tempore illimitato, till the end of the negotiation to be carried on (at Dantzick) under the mediation of the Emprefs of Ruffia." This declaration contains no less than five reftrictions; it allows the free navi gation only,

1. To the Prufflan fubjects in the environs of Dantzick.

ed.

2. Only for articles of provifion.
3. Only upon the high roads, fo call-

4. Only till the end of the negotiation to be carried on under the mediation of the Emprefs of Ruffia.

5. Only in fo far as the negotiation is to be carried on at Dantzick."

It is obvious, and needs no explanation, that this declaration of the city of Dantzick is contrary to the juft demands of his Majefty, and directly oppofite to the affurances given him by the Empress of Ruffia, and the King of Poland, that the city of Dantzick fhould allow to his fubjects a free and unlimited paffage till the end of the negotiation. His Majesty, therefore, cannot accept, on any confideration whatever, this unbecoming and offenfive declaration, and folemnly rejects the fame. However, as a convincing proof of his Majefty's friendship and unlimited regard for the interceffion, requeft, and mediation of their Imperial and Royal Majesties of Ruffia and Poland, and to alleviate the diftrefs of the probably innocent inhabitants of the Dantzick territory, his Majefty will for the prefent withdraw his troops from the territory of Dantzick, provided the city of Dantzick fhall, without lofs of time, Tend their deputies, duly impowered, to Warfaw, there to treat with his Majefty's plenipotentiary under the mediation of the Ruffian envoy, and to fettle the matter finally within a fhort and limited time, at leaft before the opening of the negotiation upon the Viitula; but if fuch an agreement should not take place during that time, the two mediating powers, according to their own juft way of thinking, will not blame his Majefty, if, in fupport of his well-founded right, and the prefervation of his fubjects, he renews his reprifals against the city of Dantzick, and purfaes them with greater rigour than before." 7 2

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