ing East, Whether, as now, thou paint'ft the blush[Heav'n, Or climb'ft, at fultry noon, the fteep of Or thy revolving chariot feeks the Weft, Declining tow'rds th’Atlantic deep at ev'n. Where'er fresh verdure decks th' enamel'd green, Orpainted landscapes rife upon the fight, Thy beaming glories brighten all the fcene, With beauty crown the flow'rs, and deck the fields with light. At thy approach unfolds the vernal rose, And rifing flow'rs with early fragrance bloom; [clofe, Jeff'mines and vi'lets all their fweets difAnd fcent the balmy gales with rich perfume. Sad as the dove, when by its mate forlorn, If the lov'd mistress of my heart were near! The tears I'll wipe that from thine eyes Ha! is it fhe that yonder beams like light, Or the full lunar orb in Autumn bright? The fun, juft rifing o'er a Summer's storm, Lefs fplendid feems than her delicious form. She speaks---but, ah! her voice how weak and low! Once caught ravish'd Thomas's eye; "Which, faid Thomas's friend, would'st thou pitch on for thine ?" Thomas archly made this reply: "Since to Paris's judgment, as fam'd poets tell us, Troy ow'd its deplorable fall, Next Thalia comes... whofe gen'rous gentle heart, A ftranger lives to each intriguing art. Her unaffected innocence is feen. To ev'ry vow a faithful vow returns, Euphrofyne's praifes flow from ev'ry tongue, The dearest fubject, aud my darling fong! And fince of her beauty each fair one is Minerva's prudence, ev'ry action grace, jealous, To make fure, I'd e'en chuse 'em all." Addreffed to the THREE GRACES of Carmina vel coelo poffunt deducere lunam. Vir. along, And Naiads warble in alternate fong; Where wanton willows dip, by fits, their leaves, And French-ware fields afford the cooling breeze: To view the purple vi'let's lowly bed, eyes! Thus bright Aurora, at the early dawn, lawn. The Hebrew word for a river, contraire, Je crains avec raison la rigeur des hyvers, Je me cache avec foin dans un temps i [fent verds, Et j'attends les beaux jours, ou les arbres Pour faire des jardins mon fejour ordinaire. Je fuis utile aux rois, que le fafte environne, Je les aide à porter le fad de leur couronne, Et fi quelqu'un pouvoit m'oter au grand feigneur, On verroit à l'inftant decroitre fa grandeur, Sur moy, quoi que je foie en effect peu de chofe, [repofe. Comme fur un Atlas tout le monde fe Jefuis de la grandeur l'appui le plus certain, Car c'eft moy, qui foutiens le droit du genre humain. ANACREON, Ode I. Imitated. W Hene'er I ftrike the trembling strings, In mighty numbers would I tell But, ah! my ftrings rebellious prove, In ev'ry part I change my lyre, By Inftinet hens their young ones feed ; Your Rebus then is eafy to explore ; Let Wisdom be your guide, you need no more. ANSWER to the fecond RE BU S. THE Bat is a compound of beaft and of And Ob's an expreffion that's very much Rogue oft we a base villain call; [bird; Wine frequently cheers and enlivens the foul, When we into dangers do fall: [us'd, And Neptune rules over the main ; These prophetic initials, united, declare Mifs Brown you would gladly obtain. A HISTORY of the PRESENT WAR. fians attacked and routed them, and intirely difperfed all that were not killed and taken. The army of the Empire had one colonel, one major, 29 other officers, and above 200 men taken prifoners, with four pair of colours and fix pieces of cannon. The fecond affair happened on the 6th inftant, when a Pruffian detachment attacked a corps under general Guafco, near Plauen in the Voigtland, took one colonel, eight other officers, with about 150 men, and four pieces of cannon, and all their The king of Pruffia's head-quarters were on the 18th inftant at Meiffen. Above 100,000 Pruffians extend from Leipfic to Fryberg, and 25,000 more from Fryberg to Erfurt in Thuringia. Part of the allied army, under the command of the hereditary prince of Brunswick, was attacked on the 21ft of laft month, in their retreat from Heimbach, just as they were entering a defile near Grunberg, by three columns of French cavalry, commanded by M. de Clozen; when the French had so far the advantage in this attack, that they repulfed fome fquadrons of Hanoverian cavalry, who came to the affistance of the foot, and took prifoners feveral of the Brunswick troops, with fome colours and cannon. Gen. Rhe-baggage. den was among the flain. The hereditary prince retired to Hombourg, where the main body of the allied army was then encamped. If the French account of this affair is to be credited, the lofs on the hereditary prince's fide was 2600 made prifoners, 18 pair of colours, one standard, and 12 or 13 pieces of cannon; and that the victory cost the French no more than 100 men killed and wounded. But this appears incredible; though the advantage was undoubtedly on the fide of the French, who have also been farther fuccessful in obliging the allies to raise the fiege of Caffel, and that of Ziegenhayn. The laft letters from the allied army, which are dated the 16th instant, import, that prince Ferdinand of Brunswick had then his headquarters at Neuhaufs, near Paderborn; and his ferene highnefs had juft fent towards the Lippe a pretty good body of troops, to obferve those which the French were fending that way, being part of the army they were assembling on the Lower Rhine. The generals of his Pruffian majefty have lately gained some advantages over a part of the army of the Empire, in two different rencontres; the first of which happened on the 2d of this month, in the following manner: the Imperialifts, to the number of fix battalions and Soo horse, commanded by two generals, had formed themselves upon the heights of Reimberg, near Saalfeld, where they had placed their batteries upon the approach of the Pruffian general Schenkendorff. General Sybourg advanced on the other fide, and diflodged the Imperialifts from the poft of Schwartze, where they had two battalions. The PrufApril 1751. The Ruffian army remains quiet, in confequence of a fufpenfion of arms having been figned at Stolpe, on the 25th of Feb. last, between them and the Pruffians, which is to continue till the 12th of May next. The belligerant powers in general have, at length, come to a resolution to agree to the holding a congrefs, for bringing about the falutary work of peace, as appears by the following declaration in the name and on the part of her majefty the empress apoftolic queen of Hungary and Bohemia, which was figned at Paris the 26th of March, 1761, by her minifter at that court, the count of Starhemberg; and was delivered at London the 31st of March by prince Galitzin, envoy extraordinary from the emprefs of all the Ruffias, and is as follows: Declaration of her majefty the empress apoftolic queen of blungary and Bohemia, The difpofitions for peace, very agreeable to the fentiments of all the parties engaged in the war, which the kings of England and Pruffia fhewed last year, having met with difficulties, which have prevented their fuccefs, the courts of Vienna, Petersbourg, France, Stockholm, and Warsaw, are unanimously agreed to invite thofe of London and Berlin to refume a negotiation fo falutary for the happiness of the world, and which muft intereft the humanity of all the powers at war. In this view, and in order to their being Ee ab able to proceed to the re-establishment of peace, they propofe the affembling of a congrefs, to which they think it may be proper to admit only the plenipotentiaries of the principal belligerant parties, with thofe of their allies. If the kings of England and Pruffia adopt this method, her majefty the Empress-queen, the empress of Ruffia, the moft Chriftian King, the king of Sweden, and the king of Poland elector of Saxony, propofe the city of Augsbourg for the place of the congrefs, obferving, that their majesties point out Augsbourg no otherwife, than as a town within diftance of all the parties concerned, which, from its fituation, appears to fuit with the convenience of all the ftates; and that they will not reject the choice of another city in Germany, if their Britannic and Pruffian majefties may deem it more con venient. The Emprefs-queen, the empress of Ruffia, the moft Chriftian King, the king of Sweden, and the king of Poland elector of Saxony, declare, moreover, that they have chofen the plenipotentiaries, who will be intrufted with the care of their interests at the congrefs, in hopes that the king of England, the king of Pruffia, and their allies, will, on their part, fpeedily make choice of their refpective minifters, that the negotiation may not be deferred. The fimplicity of this declaration, which,' for the general welfare, the courts of Vienna, Petersbourg, France, Stockholm, and Warfaw, have determined to make to the courts of London and Berlin, gives them hopes, that their Britannick and Pruffian majefties will be pleased, by a speedy anfwer, to make their fentiments known, upon an object fo effential to the repofe and happiness of Europe. Done at Paris, the 26th of March, 1761, by order, and in the name of her Imperial, Royal, and Apostolic Majesty, Count Starhemberg, N. B. A like declaration with this, in the name, and on the part of their majefties the emprefs of all the Ruffias, the moft Chriftian King, the king of Sweden, and the king of Poland elector of Saxony, has been made and figned on the fame day as this; to wit, that of the emprafs of Ruffia, by prince D. P. Galitzin; that of the moft Chriftian King, by the duc de Choifeul; that of the king of Sweden, by baron de Scheffer; and that of the king of Poland elector of Saxony, by M. de Fon tenay; and they were all delivered at Lon. don at the fame time, that is to fay, on the 31st of March, by prince Galitzin. The following counter declaration was and was delivered on the fame day to figned at London the 3d of April inftant, the emprefs of all the Ruffias, to be tranfprince Galitzin, envoy extraordinary from mitted by him to Paris. Counter Declaration. The difpofitions of their Britannic and Pruffian majesties for the re-establishment of the general tranquility of Europe, having been steady and fincere, could not have undergone any alteration through the space of time, which has elapfed fince their de claration of the 25th of November, 1759. Their majesties therefore, with fatisfac tion, accept the offer of the affembling of a congrefs at Augsbourg, contained in the five declarations made at Paris the 26th of March laft, and delivered at London the 31ft of the fame month, in the name and on the part of their majefties the Empressqueen, the empress of all the Ruffias, the moft Chriftian King, the king of Sweden, and the king of Poland, elector of Saxony. The courts of London and Berlin equally acquiefce in the claufe of this declaration, which relates to the rule that is pro posed to be laid down, in regard to the admiffion of the plenipotentiaries, who shall have a right to be received at this congrefs, For the reft, as their zeal for the advancement of the falutary work of a general pacification perfectly correfponds with that which appears to animate the courts of Vienna, Petersbourg, Versailles, Stockholm, and Warfaw, their Britannic and Pruffian majefties will not delay to name instantly their plenipotentiaries, being difpofed to concur, with one and the fame pace, in every thing that may accelerate the opening of the congrefs, which has been offered to them. In the name, and by order, of the King, BUTE. London, April 3, 1761. N. B. The fame counter declaration as this for the emprefs of Ruffia, the most Chriftian King, the king of Sweden, and the king of Poland, elector of Saxony, was made and figned the fame day as this; and they were all delivered at the fame time to prince Galitzin, to be tranfmitted by him to Paris. Whitehall, April 24. His majefty was pleafed this day to name the right hon. Charlea |