For Love's the best and pureft joy we know, Take then for praise the wishes of a friend; Heaven mend your faults (if you have faults to Exalt your foul, your virtues all improve; [mend), The more your virtue, I the more fhall love. Yet, fure, if aught that's good refides below, And aught that's good 'tis granted me to know, Honour, and truth, and love, and virtue join To make one friend, and oh! that friend is mine. Canft thou forget those dear delightful days, When first I fung ambitious of thy praife? When, kindly-partial to the mufe you lov'd, You urg'd her humble fong, and then approv'd? When with the blushing morn's reviving ray We breath'd the fragrant fweets of orient day; With vigour climb'd the lofty mountain's brow, Or rang'd with jovial hearts the plains below; Prefs'd by her rapid foe, the timid hare Before us flying; pleafure too fevere! By fome clear stream, beneath the cooling fhade, In blissful cafe, and fweet retirement laid, When from his flaming throne the god of day Intenfely bright fhot down his fervid ray, We trac'd the labours of the tuneful throng, Charm'd with the beauties of immortal song, When fober Eve, in fable mantle clad, Vail'd Nature's face with her delightful fhade; When herbs and flowers drunk up the falling dew, And heaven's bright queen illum'd th'æthereal blue; While flocks were folded, and the fields were still, Save the sweet murmurs of fome tinkling rill; How oft did we prolong the grateful walk! When mutual pleasure crown'd our focial talk; When each to each might all his foul impart, And share th'o'erflowings of a friendly heart, That without flatt'ry freely would commend, Or blame with all the candour of a friend. Did fuch connections oft the care engage Of this unthinking, and degen'rate age, Wifer and better foon fhould mankind grow, And Eden flourish once again below. Heaven's Sov'reign, powerful, wife, and gra- Educes perfect good from partial ill: Far from the banks of F, the lovely plains Where M dwells, and where my foul re mains. At that dear name afresh my forrows flow, The copious tear, and long indulged wo`: In all her charms fhe rifes to my view, And all her glories fire my foul anew. Thou amiable fweetnefs! thou fhalt long Be the lamented fubject of my long: (guide, Where-e'er heaven's providence my ways fhall Still thy dear mem'ry fhall with me abide; Of my fond heart be ftill the darling care, The dearest, best-belov'd remembrance there. Alas! thou other partner of my foul, Between us mountains rise, and oceans roll: How oft hath fate from me call'd those away, Whom of all others I would with to stay? How oft have I, by the fame fate remov'd, Languifh'd in abfence from my best-belov'd! Long may thy happiness delight my ear; Thy growing virtue let me ever hear. Virtue alone impells to noble deeds, And points the way that unto glory leads: And while thou lov'ft to tread her paths divine, So long, nor longer, let me call thee mine. Fort-George. A SON G. Her beauty returns figh for figh! [OW happy a lover's life passes, He looks upon all men as affes Who have not fome girl in their eye. He trips to the terras or parks; When Chloe appears full in view! And Bacchus calls out for his lass; Than those that from Chloe arife; Jokes Gripus, pays Grizle; now where is the wonIf Grizle and Gripus are feldom afunder? (der, HISTORY. [Most of the poftponed affairs are now inserted.] 7 Hat was faid in our laft concern fit of an apoplexy the 19th of September, for which he was bleeded twice, and that upon the fecond bleeding the began to be fomewhat better. Other Wing the retreat of the RUSSIANS, letters from thence, dated Sept. 29. fay, who had advanced far into PRUSSIA, has been confirmed by all fucceeding accounts; though they had not been able actually to evacuate that kingdom at the time the advices received before our publication came away, as the let ter we took from the London gazette bore. The Ruffians took their route towards Tilfit, where their main body arrived the 20th of September. Great diligence was ufed by the Pruffians to overtake them, but without great effect. They fell in with one confiderable body, killed their commanding officer with not a few men,' and made many prifoners confidering the numbers. Thofe who efcaped fet fire to fome villages in revenge of their defeat, and disfigured feveral peafants with wounds. It is faid that the retreating army fuffered extremely for want of bread, being obliged to fubfift chiefly upon what vegetables they could pick up, and parched rye. By the 30th of September they had all paffed the river Memel, abandoning feveral magazines upon the frontiers, which they could not carry off, nor had time to deftroy. During their march the Pruffians picked up great numbers, confift ing of fragglers, fick, and wounded; while the peasants fell upon their baggage, and made a confiderable booty. Mean while the Ruffians feem refolved to keep poffeffion of the town of Memel, having added feveral works to its fortifications, and left in it a frong gar. rifon. The caufe of their fo precipitate retreat does not yet appear to be publicly known. Some afcribed it to the ftate of the Emprefs of Ruffia's health; afferting, that to prevent disturbance to the fate when a vacancy in the throne might happen, her Imperial Majefty had made fome new regulations, which rendered it expedient for the regular forces to be at hand in order to fupport them. Several, private letters from Peterburg bore, that the Emprefs had a that she had returned from her fummér. houfe to that capital in perfect health; and that one part of the miniftry was very defirous of procuring a declaration, that the retreat of M. Apraxin was without orders; while another part oppofed it, alledging, that though the thing might be true, yet there was no neceffity for publishing it. M. Lehwald, finding Pruffia entirely evacuated of ene. mies, detached Prince George of Holftein-Gottorp, on the 9th of October, with 16,000 troops, for Brandenburg Pomerania. They write from COPENHAGEN, that before the middle of September Col. Campbell from the court of London arrived there, where he acquitted himself of a commiffion he was charged with to his Danish Majefty; and that a few days after he fet out for Stockholm, where he was likewife to execute a commission, the fuccefs of which would decide whe ther he was to affume a public character at the Swedish court. According to our last account of Ger. MAN affairs, the campaign was over with the army of obfervation under the Duke of Cumberland, in conféquence of a convention; and his Britannic Majefty had declared, that, notwithstanding this, he was refolved as King to act in the clofelt concert with the King of Pruffia, in order to fruftrate the unjuft and oppreffive defigns of their common enemies [485.]. That declaration has been fuppofed to have been produ ced, partly by the reprefentations of the Pruffian minifter at London, and partly by the following, which is given as a copy of a letter from the King of Pruffia to his Britannic Majefty. "I just now hear that the bufinefs of a neutrality for the electorate of Hanover is not yet dropt. Can your Majefty have fo little conftancy and firmnefs, as to fink under a few crofs events? Are affairs in fuch a bad plight that they cannot be retrieved? Confider the ftep which your Ma jefty jefty purposes to take, and that which you have made me take. You are the caufe of all the misfortunes that are ready to fall upon me. I never would have broken my alliance with France but for your fair promifes. I repent not of my treaty with your Majefty; but do not fhamefully abandon me to the mercy of my enemies, after having brought upon me all the powers of Europe. I expect that your Majefty will remember your engagements, renewed on the 26th paft, and that you will not liften to any engagements in which I am not comprehended." Several difficulties arofe in regard to the convention; but at length they were all got over, and the Hanoverian troops, inftead of paffing the Elbe, are all to be quartered on the left of that river, in the duchies of Bremen and Verden. By our last the French under the Prince de Soubife, and the executionarmy of the empire, commanded by the Prince of Saxe-Hildburghaufen, had retreated, upon the approach of the King of Pruffia, to Langen-Saltza and Eifenach, and his Prussian Majesty had taken poffeffion of Erfurth. In the retreat the Prince de Soubife took up his quarters at Gotha, and defired the Duke to lend him four mortars and five pieces of cannon, promifing to return them when he had no further occafion for them; and without more ceremony the French gunners drew them out of the arfenal. On the 13th of September, at ten in the evening, a detachment of the train of artillery returned to Gotha, in order to take with them ten more pieces of cannon, and to render the reit unferviceable; which they did. The 14th the inhabitants were greatly alarmed by a number of French foldiers gathering in the freets, and faying they had permiffion to pillage the city before their departure. This appeared the more credible, as the regiment of volontaires de Naffau, in conjunction with their of ficers, taking advantage of the confufion, and finding the doors of the arfenal open, ftripped it of every thing that might be of fervice to them, as pi. fols, fufées, bandeliers, &c. Scarcely was this over when Gen. Landon arrived with his croats, and immediately detached 100 of them to the castle, with orders to deftroy the whole arfenal; but on feeing the business already done, they retired without committing any dif order. On the 15th the Auftrian general and officers had engaged to dine at court: but this appointment was broken; for at noon the first divifion of the Pruflian troops appeared about a league off. At one in the afternoon a regi ment of their huffars came on, full gallop, to attack the outermoft picquets of the Auftrians; who retired in good order towards their corps, which was on the march to Eifenach, and there was no bood fpilt. At half an hour after two the King of Pruffia, attended only by Prince Henry, a regiment of huffars and a regiment of dragoons, arrived at the city-gates, and fent word by a gen tleman that he came to dine with the Duke.. He was inftantly admitted; and taking his feat, infifted that Madam de Bufhwald fhould dine with him, all the time entertaining the company with much discourse and great chearfulness. At five o'clock he departed with his attendants only, on his way to Erfurth, leaving behind him his dragoons and huffars, under the command of Maj.Gen. Seydelitz. On the 18th at noon, Prince Henry made a vifit to the Duchefs of SaxeGotha; and on the 19th a rencounter happened between Gen. Seydelitz and a very confiderable part of what is now called the combined army, which has been fet in very different lights by the two oppofite fides. The Pruffians reprefent it as follows: "The combined army was affembled near Eisenach, and intrenched in the defiles of the mountains, to wait the attack of the Pruffians,' who ftill continued near Erfurth; but in the mean time the commanders came to a refolution of making an attempt to carry off Seydelitz's party, which was at Gotha, and confified of about 1200 men. For this purpose they marched all night, with almost all their cavalry, and twenty-three companies of grenadiers, amounting in the whole to be tween tween 7 and 8000 men, and arrived about eight in the morning. But Seydelitz, though furprised, made a good retreat, not lofing twenty men. The Princes Hildburghaufen and Soubife, and all the French generals, came up to court at eleven o'clock; the infantry poffeffed themselves of the town, and it was expected they would have remained here. But Seydelitz perceiving a fog to arife, determined to improve it; he therefore retired behind the hills about a league off, towards Erfurth; where, he caufed 100 dragoons to difmount, to reprefent infantry, and divided the reft of the troops into twenty-two small bodies, which extended themselves very far, and, by the favour of the fog, appeared like fo many fquadrons. At one in the afternoon he attacked the French with his huffars only; and news was immediately carried to the French generals, that the whole Pruffian army was advancing; that they lay behind the hills, and that they were extending towards the left, in order to furround them whereupon they made all poffible hafte to retreat, and after having marched all night, were obliged to return the way they came, without having any refreshment; fo that in two hours time there was not a Frenchman left. M. de Seydelitz pursued them, made forty prifoners, killed about the fame number, took a great deal of baggage, and was very near taking feveral general officers, who had ftaid too long in the town. This action, though of no great confequence in itself, does great honour to the general. The King, however, did not think proper to let him remain at Gotha any longer. The 21ft he re. turned to Erfurth, and the fame evening the vanguard of the French army again repoffeffed themselves of Gotha." The Bruffels gazette relates the affair thus. "Bamberg, Sept. 23. An exprefs who paffed through here yefter day, told us, that the Prince of SaxeHildburghaufen having received information that 5000 Pruffians were advancing to attack fome of his pofts, put himself at the head of 15,000 men, and, under favour of a fog, fell upon the e nemy unawares, beat them, and took eleven pieces of cannon, feven of which he brought away, and nailed up the reft. M. de Eifenberg, aid-de-campgeneral of the circle of Franconia, and Baron Grittenberg, in the fervice of the Prince Bishop of Bamberg, were made prifoners." His Pruffian Majefty having waited a confiderable time in the neighbourhood of Erfurth for the combined army, and not judging it proper to attack a force fo fuperior in intrenchments, he marched towards Naumburg, and on the zd of October fixed his head quarters at Buttleftadt. Upon this the combined army returned to Gotha, Erfurth, and Weimar, where it halted, in order to wait for the arrival of the reinforcement which M. Richlieu was fending to it. According to advices from Cologn, dated Oct. 14. the army of the empire, as well as the French, complained that the cold already killed their men and horfes, filled their hofpitals, and increafed the defertion, fo that it was thought they would foon take winter. quarters; that of the empire in Franconia; thofe of France in the conquered countries, as they term them. It is added, that the diffenfions between the troops of the empire, and those of France under the Prince de Soubife, are so aug. mented by the infolence and injustice of the French, that the generals are afraid of their turning their arms against each other. The French have plundered several villages in the duchy of Eifenach, cut down the foreft-trees, taken the forage from the troops of the empire, and committed all forts of diforders. On the 7th of October, they oppofed the guard at the head quarters of the army of the empire, and run the officer through the arm; on which, orders were given to fire on them, if they attempted the like again. In fhort, it is affured, that they live together more like enemies than friends. By late accounts we are informed, that, on the 11th of October, the King of Pruffia had his head quarters at Naumburg, his army confifting of about 24,000 men. Prince Maurice of Anhalt Deffau Deffau had a corps of about 10,000 incamped near Leipfic. The people of that city not having paid the contribution of 300,000 crowns demanded of them, they were laid under military execution. On the 10th of October their houses were occupied by officers, attended by foldiers, who immediately took up the best rooms for themselves, and lived at difcretion. Even this not having produced the intended effect, his Pruffian Majefty arrived at that place on the 15th; which put the inhabitants in the utmost confternation, as they expect ed no less than to be immediately delivered up to be plundered. But his Majefty declared, that he would fpare the city, upon condition that half the fum required fhould be paid without delay. All that could be done was to raife among the merchants 50,000 crowns; bills of exchange were given upon Amfterdam and London for 70,000 crowns; and the remaining 30,000 were engaged to be paid as foon as the hoftages were returned from Magdeburg. In confequence of this agreement, the merchants recovered their books of accounts, which had been fequeftered. M. Richlieu entered the Brandenburg dominions, with his army, faid to confist of about 80,000 men, on the 27th, 28th, and 29th of September; upon which Prince Ferdinand of Brunswick retired with his army of near 10,000 men towards Magdeburg. The French head quarters were fixed at Halberstadt, and according to very late accounts they had neither advanced farther forward nor retired. This inaction gives ground for feveral furmifes, the juftnefs of which we leave to be determined by time. They write from Berlin, that Gen. Haddick had entered Brandenburg with a corps of 15 or 16,000 Auftrians, and on the 15th of October arrived before that city, of which he demanded a contribution of 600,000 crowns, but contented himself with 210,000. While this was negotiating, the fuburbs Copenick, and Strahlace, were pillaged, and the privy-counsellor Stofch, whom they found in his garden, fo ill ufed that he died the 18th. The Auftrians after , VOL. XIX. ward retired in the utmost haste, and the vanguard of the corps commanded by Prince Maurice of Anhalt Deffau, which had left Leipfic upon the first notice of this irruption, entered Berlin in the evening of the 18th. Not long after the action between the Auftrians and Pruffians in Lufatia, on the 7th of September, Prince Charles of Lorrain and M. Daun on the one fide, and the Prince of Bevern on the other, marched their troops into Silefia. The former having greatly fuperior numbers, the latter has found it very difficult to make head against them. Lignitz, with a confiderable part of the country, foon fell into the hands of the Auftrians. There was a brisk cannonade between the two armies, on the 26th of September, near the village of Parchwitz, in which the Pruffians faid their lofs amounted to 100 men, and that of their enemies to a confiderable number more. Great affiduity has been used by the Prince of Bevern to put the fortifications of the ftrong places in a proper ftate of defence, particularly thofe of Schweidnitz and Breslau. Letters from the Auftrian army bear, that the princi pal object of their operations was the ta king of those two places before winter. The Generals Petezzi and Nadafti had, with a confiderable body of troops, invefted Schweidnitz, the garrifon of which made frequent and vigorous fallies; but they hoped to reduce the place by a bombardment. On the 1ft of October the Prince of Bevern took an advantageous camp on the right of the river Oder near Breflau. Prince Charles and M. Daun appeared determined to attack him; but it is affured that they had not yet done any thing on the 10th. Mean while the Prince of Bevern's fituation was thought to be fomewhat critical, because if he would preferve the poft he had taken, and continue to cover Breslau, he would expofe himself to the danger of being cut off behind, and of lofing his communication with Glogau and Brandenburg. Little thing of confequence concerning the operations of the Swedes in Pomerania has come to hand for a month 4 H past |