Think not that it is the nature of vir tuous patriotism to disturb a nation in the midft of bufinefs and of danger.

Public danger calls for the concentra tion of power. Be thankful to God, that you have a king, who, though certainly not faultlefs, (for who can be?), yet one who afpires not to the seizure of your franchises, nor grafps at riots and misfortunes to enslave his people. It is impoffible that your monarch does not perceive that his greatness stands upon the bafis of British liberty.

MEN of SCOTLAND, Forget your ancient prejudices against your richer neighbours, and let not the remembrance of their purfe proud jeers against you rankle in your hearts. Preferve the conftitution of your Kirk, but be friendly and focial to the Church; and be not fo foolish as to imagine, that there are any intentions to alter your religious conftitution or liberties.

Gain your Roman-Catholic brethren by hofpitality and urbanity, not by burning their places of worship.

If the king and parliament grant you arms, and array you, at this moment of national exertion and of danger, be grateful as children, and impetuous as men against the infulting foe.

If reasons of ftate fuggeft the arrange. ment of your defence by other means, be fatisfied. Your land tax will not * afford a militia; and volunteer compa. nies not under the immediate direction of the executive power, are contrary to the principles of the British conftitution, and might be turned to pernicious purpofes.

be no longer a channel of difguft between us: let us form but one people, and one ifland, as it were, divided but by an arm of the fea.

Your glorious and fertile country will take its ftation as the fifter and equal, but not the rival of Britain. If you call in the feas and the fisheries to your maintenance, your population may admit of an increafe to equal it with that of England. Set your hearts, your heads, and your hands, to brotherly affection, police, and trade with manufactures.

MEN of the COLONIES,- Loyal and difloyal, joined and disjoined, caft your eyes once more across the great Atlantic; let them yield to the pearly flow of returning affection. The reprefentatives of your firft parents are conscious, that the pride of their parentage, and the etiquette of the patria poteftas, the patriarchal power, engaged them in too early chaftifement; they are ready to receive you, and to make you once more their fellow-citizens.

MEN of ENGLAND, SCOTLAND, IRELAND, the COLONIES, BRETHREN, - Forget what is paft, unite, fave the only free nation of grandeur and extent of territory upon the furface of the terraqueous globe.

Think not, my brethren, that this addrefs is the emanation of zeal bought by the largeffes of a selfish minifter: it comes from a man whofe rank is too illustrious, his fortune by prudence too independent, and his heart by nature too honeft, to permit him to be the tool of party or of power.

He feeks not for public office; he receives no emolument from government; he has been even fuffered to languish in obfcurity, if his fpirit would have fuffered him to languish. He had once the hopes and ambition of guiding, with the ftate-pilot, the helm of public affairs; that time is past. It is paft never to return. He will go to the filent grave, in all probability, unplaced, unpenfioned, unribboned, unpromoted in honour: but he will be carried to it, he hopes, with honour, with the regret of an honeft circle, and certainly with the reputation of ha ving loved his country.

Præclara confcientia igitur fuftentor, cum cogito me de republica aut meruiffe optime, cum potuerim, aut certe nunquam, nifi divine cogitaffe." BRITANNICUS.

Edin. Mag.

A LOVE-BALLAD.

On ber MAJESTY's birth-day. Ome, gentle Mufe, thy aid impart,

"Come, Lucy! (it cries) come The grave of thy Colin has room To reft thee befide his cold clay." "I come, my dear fhepherd, I come; Ye friends and companions, adieu ! I hafte to my Collin's dark home,

To die on his bofom so true." All mournful the midnight-bell rung, When Lucy (fad Lucy!) arofe, And forth to the green turf fhe sprung, Where Colin's pale afhes repofe. All wet with the night's chilling dew, Her bofom embrac'd the cold ground, While ftormy winds over her blew,

:

And night-ravens croak'd all around.
"How long, my dear fhepherd! (the cry'd),
How long must thy Lucy complain?
How long shall the grave my love hide?
How long ere it join us again?
For thee has thy fhepherdefs liv'd,

With thee o'er the world would the fly;
For thee has the forrow'd and griev'd,

For thee would the lie down and die.
Alas! what avails it how dear,

His Lucy was once to his swain,
Her face like the lily fo fair,

Her eyes that gave light to the plain ?
Since now the dear fhepherd is gone,
That face, and thofe eyes charm no more,
And Lucy, forgot and alone,

To death must her Colin deplore."
As thus fhe lay funk in despair,

And mourn'd to the echoes around,
Inflam'd all at once grew the air,

And thunders fhook dreadful the ground.
"I hear the kind call, and obey;
Receive me, dear Colin !" fhe cry'd,
Then breathing a figh o'er his clay,

She hung on his tombslone,—and died.

On the death of the late Earl of HOPETOUN. [110.]
Ood HOPETOUN dead! ah, that's a stroke
too great,
The very nation fuffers in his fate.

G

Fain, tho' unequal, would I speak his praise,
Was not the theme too high for vulgar lays.
For public virtues few his equals were,
In private ones none with him could compare.
Their numbers to recount could I pretend,
His facred fhade, I know, I should offend.
For tho' in these he was a pattern bright,
His study was, to veil them from the light.
But his reward himself has gone before,
And met him landing on the heavenly shore.
To us behind, who share one common grief,
One common hope, doth minister relief,
That, as in him each virtue did combine,
The fon will with the father's virtues fhine.

W. C.

On CHARLOTTE's natal day; High let the iver trumpet found, And echo to the nations round

The glory of thy lay!

Mild as the gentle cooing dove,
Her bofom fwells with genuine love
TO GEORGE, her Royal Lord!
The cares of state-its heavy toils,
Are eas'd by CHARLOTTE's tender fmiles;
Peace feems awhile restor'd.

Oh, gentle Pow'r! thy charms expand,
And fhed thy influence o'er the land,
Till Difcord is no more:
The olive with the laurel twine,
Again let Arts and Commerce join,
And Plenty bless the shore.
Such is the wifh of CHARLOTTE's breaft
For peace is ever there expreft,

Each with for England's good! Around her happy offspring ftand, The pride the glory of the land, With ev'ry grace endow'd. Bright as the op'ning rays of Morn, Our future hope- her eldest born, Smiles comfort by her fide; Aufpicious youth! in virtue rife, And imitate the great and wife,

And be fair England's pride.
Sill, as the circling year goes round,
May this bleft day with joy be crown'd,
Thus happy be it feen!

To diftant years may Fate prolong
The life of her who claims the fong,
Our all-diftinguifh'd QUEEN!

B

The RECANTATION: An ode.
Y Love too long depriv'd of reft,

His vaffal long, and worn with pain,
Indignant late, 1 fpurn'd the chain:
In verfe-in profe I fung and swore
No charms fhould e'er enflave me more,
Nor neck, nor hair, nor lip, nor eye,
Again should force one tender figh.
As, taught by Heav'n's informing pow's,
From ev'ry fruit and ev'ry flow'r,
That Nature opens to the view,
The bee extracts the nectar-dew;
A vagrant thus, and free to change,
From fair to fair I vow'd to range,
And part from each without regret,
As pleas'd and happy as I met.

Then Freedom's praise infpir'd my tongue,
With Freedom's praife the vallies rung,
And ev'ry night and ev'ry day

My heart thus pour'd th' enraptur'd lay:
"My cares are gone,-my forrows cease,
My breast regains its wonted peace,
N 2

And

returning, prove,
That Reason is too strong for Love."
Such was my boaft-but ah, how vain!
How fhort was Reafon's vaunted reign!
The firm refolve I form'd erewhile
How weak-oppos'd to MYRA's fmile!
Chang'd is the ftrain-the vallies round
With Freedom's praise no more resound,
But ev'ry night, and ev'ry day,
My full heart pours the alter'd lay.
Offended deity! whofe pow'r
My rebel tongue but now forfwore,
Accept my penitence fincere,

My crime forgive, and grant my pray's!
Let not thy flave, condemn'd to mourn,
With unrequited paffion burn;

With Love's foft thoughts her breast inspire,
And kindle there an equal fire!
It is not Beauty's gaudy flow'r,
(The empty triumph of an hour),
Nor practis'd wiles of female art,
That now fubdue my destin'd heart;

O no!-'Tis Heav'n, whofe wondrous hand
A transcript of itself hath plann'd,
And to each outward grace hath join'd
Each lovelier feature of the mind.
These charms fhall last when others fly,
When roses fade and lilies die,
When that dear eye's declining beam
Its living fire no more shall stream:
Bleft, then, and happy in
The fong of Freedom flows in vain,
chain,
my
Nor Reafon's harsh reproof I fear,
For Reafon's felf is Paffion here.
O dearer far than wealth or fame!
My daily thought-my nightly dream,
If yet no youth's fuccefsful art,
(Sweet Hope!) hath touch'd thy gentle heart,
If yet no fwain hath blefs'd thy choice,
Indulgent hear thy DAMON's voice,
From doubts, from fears, his bosom free,
And bid him live-for LovE and THEE.
EPITAPH on the Rt Hon. Sir THOMAS
WINNINGTON, by Sir CHARLES HANBU-
RY WILLIAMS. [8. 198.-9. 5 76.;—21.606.]
Ear his paternal feat, here bury'd lies
The grave, the gay, the witty, and the

wife: Form'd for all parts, in all alike he shin'd, Variously great, a genius unconfin'd! In converfe right, judicious in debate, In private amiable, in public great. With all the Statemau's knowledge, prudence,

art,

With Friendship's open, undefigning heart.
The friend and heir here join their duty: one
Erects the bufto, one inscribes the ftone. [live ;
Not that they hope from thefe his fame fhould
That claims a longer date than they can give.
Falle to their trust, the mould'ring bufts decay,
And, foon effac'd, inferiptions wear away:
But English annals fhail their place fupply,
And, while they live, his name can never die.

On the death of Major PIERSON. [44] Ell me (fays Cato) where you found My boy, and how he fell ?"

-

"In front and in his breaft the wound?" "I thank the Gods 'tis well."

Thus the stern Stoic footh'd his grief,
And check'd the rifing groan,
By making honour his relief,
And common good his own.

Yet more, the terms of vital breath
He knew, and chance of war;
That youth is no where safe from death,
And glory courts a fear.

For yours, -on thefe reflections dwell
When you behold his urn;

And as he like a Roman fell,

Do you like Romans mourn. True-he was young,-and brave as youngAnd generous as brave:

Yet every virtue could not long

Or him or Marcus fave.

Fly to the truth,

— to you 'tis clear, What Cato wifh'd to prove,

That virtuous valour fuffering here,

Shall find its crown above.

EPITAPH on the gallant Major PERSON, who was killed in repulfing the French at Jersey [44.] Hat need of fculpture's marble to impart,

W The worth imprefs'd on every Britifl

heart?

PIERSON'S who rushed Invafion to repel, And, conqu'ring, cover'd o'er with laurels fell. Then VICT'RY, 'midst her triumph, heav'd a figh,

And, trembling, bore his fpirit to the sky. EPITAPH on Baron RULLECOURT, who was killed in an attack upon Jersey, after having forced his prifoner, the Lieutenant-Governor, to accompany him in the action. [44.]

Ere funk a being, in an injur'd land,

to

command:

BRITANNICUS.

HI

HISTORICAL AFFAIRS.

POLAND.

"Warfaw, Dec. 18. Dr Moller, whom his Majefty fent to Volhynia, has written from that province, that the diforder which rages there [42. 663.], is not properly the plague, but a fever; which has not proved very fatal, as out of 3000 which are inclofed in the chain of troops, no more than 55 have died; and it appears, that thofe have not been carried off by the violence of the diforder, but have been lost through neglect or improper treatment. But if Volhynia has escaped the plague, the town of Balta has not: Gen. Witte, Governor of Kaminiach, has written to court, that the plague rages in that town, and at Jose fogtod, in the dominion of the republic, and in four of the neighbouring villages; that he immediately caufed the infected places to be invested by the troops; and that 174 perfons have died of this fhocking diforder. Mr de Witte adds, that the measures he had taken were attended with the happieft effects; but that he had not fuffered the chain of foldiers to be removed.

The Bishop of Cajavia had the ho. nour laft week of presenting to the King a rare manuscript in the Greek language, containing all the particulars of the life of the Emperor Charlemagne. His Majefty accepted this prefent of the prelate, rewarded him with an elegant diamond ring, and ordered the manufcript to be placed in the royal library.”

RUSSIA. [43.]

"Petersburg, Dec. 26. The envoy of the States-General having received an exprefs from the Hague, with the formal resolution by which their High Mightineffes accede to the armed neutrality, the Barons de Waffenaer Starrenbergh and de Heckeren Brantzenberg, on the 23d of this month, took upon them the characters of Amballadors-Extraordinary of the Republic, and had the fame day a public and folemn audience of the Emprefs, in which they prefented their new credentials to her Majefty, feated on her throne. This auguft fovereign, after te ftifying to these ambassadors her fatisfaction at this proceeding of their fovereigns, appointed a committee to regulate with thefe gentlemen the treaty to be concluded between the two powers. This committee is composed of Count

Panin, prime minister, Count Ofterman, and Mr Bacunin, counsellors of state, and Mr Beboroka, major-general, and fecretary of the cabinet."

An English gentleman writes thus from Petersburg, Nov. 30. "The Ruffian officer, brother to the Princess Defchaw, who was taken up in June laft for being concerned in firing the Sardinian ambatfador's chapel in London, and was releafed in compliment to the Ruffian minifter at your court, arrived here fome time ago; but, to his great furprife, he was immediately ordered into banish. ment in Siberia, there to expiate the violation of the laws of England. Strange as this may appear to you, it is not the lefs true: and though it is unusual for fovereigns to punith a fubject for crimes committed against the laws of other countries, yet the Czarina has certainly condemned this Ruffian officer to banish ment, for no other crime, but that which was committed by him in Duke treet, Lincoln's inn fields. Her Majefty declared, that as he had prefumed to violate the laws of nations by his attack on the property of an ambassador, she beld herself bound to confider the laws of Ruffia as violated by him: and tho the English miniftry had been so merciful as to refcue him from the rigour of the laws of England, in compliment to her minifter at their court; yet she could not in honour or confcience fuffer fo flagrant an offender to remain one day in her dominions, without making him an example to all Ruffians who shall difregard laws, however foreign, evidently founded on natural juftice."

As in our account of the proceedings in the laft feffion of parliament, the affair mentioned in the preceding paragraph was paffled without notice, we shall here fupply that omiffion.

In the House of Lords, June 21. the Duke of Richmond, when cenfuring Ld Amberft's letters concerning the difarming of perfons in the time of the London riots [42. 419.], mentioned the dif charge of a Ruffian officer who had been in the chapel of the Sardinian ambaffador with the rioters, June 2. The Lord Chancellor expreffed a doubt of the truth of his Grace's information. The Duke, June 23. brought witneffes to prove, that the Ruffian officer having been apprehended in the commiffion of an act of felony, and put in cuftody by a

magiitrate,

magiftrate, had been discharged by an order of a fecretary of ftate, without any confultation with the magiftrate who put him in cuftody and the Lord Chancellor having faid, on the 21ft, that he was informed the Ruffian officer was perfectly innocent, having strayed into the chapel from mere curiofity, the Duke now replied, that that officer was not an indifferent spectator, but an active inftrument in the outrages then and there committed; nor would he defift, till a foldier prefented a bayonet to his breaft, and obliged him to defift. His Grace therefore moved, That Col. Wynyard, Maj. Gilbert, Adj. Stuart, and three other perfons, be ordered to attend the House on Monday.

Lord Loughborough, who was an eye-witness to the whole tranfaction, fo far as related to the apprehending the Ruffian officer, and putting him into cuftody, faid, that the foldiery, in going to the chapel, went precipitately down Duke ftreet, and through the paffage from Lincoln's-inn fields, so that a number of perfons, many of them perfectly innocent, were forced into the chapel, among whom was this officer; who, when queftioned, What he did there? declared, that he was accidentally there; that he was a man of rank, had been prefented at court, and had been in company with the Sardinian ambassador, who he was fure must recognise him immediately, and would know, that it was impoffible for him to have been inftru. mental in demolishing the chapel, or in offering the ambaffador or his property the leaft infult or injury. On this the Sardinian ambassador was defired to step down. The first person who entered the room happened to be Monf. d'Ageno, the Genoefe minifter, with whom the officer claimed an acquaintance. But M. d'Ageno denied knowing him. This circumstance, added to the Ruffian's speaking English perfectly well, gave all prefent no very favourable impreflion of him; and that impreffion was confirmed, when the Sardinian ambaffador, who came down in a few minutes, did not recollect to have feen him, though the Ruffian claimed an acquaintance with him like wife, and faid he had dined with him. On this he was detained: and his drefs and figure befpeaking him a gentleman, an officer took the charge of him. Next morning, the Ruffian envoy being applied to by the perfon who had been

detained, sent word, that he was what he described himself to be; and therefore, as he was detained only because he had given a false description of himself, he was fet at liberty. It was impoffible, the Noble Lord faid, that he could be profecuted for felony, no person having charged him with any illegal act; only two men could say, they saw him in the chapel: and therefore there was no ground for detaining him; though, if his Lordfhip were obliged to give his opinion, he should undoubtedly declare, that the Ruffian officer's behaviour was by no means becoming him.

The Duke obferved, that what the learned Lord had said, that it was impoffible for the Ruffian officer to have been committed for felony, must be grounded on prefumption. All that his Lordship had faid might be true; but how was it poffible for him to know what witnesses might have appeared, or what evidence might have come out, a day or two afterwards, upon a proper examination? His Grace faid, that there was at that moment below the bar a man who was ready, if called upon, to prove, not only that the Ruffian officer was in the chapel, not merely from motives of curiofity, but that he faw him tearing down the wainscot, and fetting it on fire. Let that man be called upon, and queftioned: it was by fuch means that the truth would come out.

Lord Stormont faid, as the chief part of the blame, if any were due, for dif charging the Ruffian officer, lay at his door, for fending the written meffage, in confequence of which he had been set at liberty, it was incumbent on him to state to their Lordships the caufe of his taking that step. The first he had heard of the matter was, by a letter from the Ruffian envoy, informing him of the rank of the officer, declaring that he had done no il. legal act, and claiming his person as a fubject of the court the envoy ferved. The letter declared, that the officer had wandered into the chapel very innocently, and from too irrefiftible and unwife a curiofity. Not having heard that the man was detained for any other reason than on a fufpicion of his being an impoftor, and of pretending to be the perfon he was not, he immediately caused a letter to be written to the officer who had the Ruffian officer in charge, to fet him at liberty. Had the officer been given in charge for a felony, undoubtedly

he