Article X. The Roman catholic religion fhall be exercised in the island with the fame freedom as under a French government. The churches fhall be preserved, and the rectors and other priests continued and in cafe of death, they shall be replaced by the bishop of Vannes. They shall be maintained in their functions, privileges, immunities, and revenues. "All the inhabitants, without diftinction, shall enjoy the free exercife of their religion. The other part of this article must neceffarily depend on the pleasure of his Britannic majesty"

Article XI. The officers and foldiers who are in the hospitals of the town and citadel, fhall be treated in the fame manner as the garrison; and, after their recovery, they shall be furnished with veffels to carry them to France. In the mean while, they fhall be fupplied with subsistence and remedies till their departure, according to the state which the comptroller and furgeons shall give in. Granted.

Article XII. After the term mentioned in the preliminary article is expired, orders fhall be given, that the commiffaries of artillery, engineers, and provifions, fhall make an inventory of what shall be found in the king's magazines, out of which bread, wine and meat, shall be furnished to fubfift the French troops to the moment of their departure. "They fhall be furnished with neceffary fubfistance till their departure, on the fame footing with the troops of his Britannic majefty."

Article XIII. Major-general Craufurd, as well as all the English officers and foldiers, who have been made prisoners fince the 8th of April 1761 inclufive, shall be fet at liberty after the figning of the capitulation, and shall be difengaged from their parole. The French officers of different ranks, volunteers, ferjeants, and foldiers, who have been made prifoners fince the 8th of April, fhall also be fet at liberty. "The English officers and foldiers, prifoners of war in the citadel, are to be free the moment the capitulation is figned. The French officers and foldiers, who are prifoners of war, fhall be exchanged according to the cartel of Sluys."

All the above articles fhall be executed faithfully on both fides; and fuch as may be doubtful shall be fairly interpreted.

Granted.

After the fignature, hoftages fhall be fent on both fides, for the fecurity of the articles of capitulation. Granted.

"All the archives, regifters, public papers, and writings, which have any relation to the government of the island, shall be faithfully given up to his Britannic majesty's commiffary: two days shall be allowed for the evacuation of the citadel; and the transports, necessary for the embarkation, shall be ready to receive the garrifen and their effects. A French officer fhall be ordered to deliver up all the warlike ftores and provifions; and, in general, every thing which belongs to his Moft Chriftian Majefty, to an English commiffary appointed for that purpose. And an officer fhall be ordered to fhew us all the mines and fouterains of the place."

S. HODGSON. A. KEPPEL.
Le Chevalier de St. CROIX.

LIST of the Officers killed, wounded, and prifoners, at Belleifle, to June 4, 1761.

KILL E D. Burgoyne's light-horse, Capt. Sir W. P.

Williams.

Moft Gracious Sovereign,

WITH reverential awe and gratitude

to the Supreme Giver of all victory, we your majesty's most dutiful and loyal fubjects, the lord Mayor, aldermen, and commons of your city of London, in common council affembled, humbly approach your royal prefence, to express our joy and exultation, on the entire reduction of the important ifland of Belleifle, by the conduct, intrepidity and perfeverance of your majesty's land and naval forces: a conqueft, which after more than one fruitlefs attempt in former times, feems to have been referved by Divine Providence, to grace the aufpicious beginning of your majesty's reign, and confirms our hopes of a long continuance of wife, steady, and

fuccessful measures.

A blow fo humiliating to the pride and power of France, cannot but impress that haughty nation with a due sense of the fuperiority of a patriot king, ruling over a free, brave, and united people; and will, we truft, convince them of the danger of delaying to accept such terms of peace as your majesty's equity, wisdom, and moderation fhall think fit to prescribe.

What therefore have we more to wish, but that your majefty may long, very long, continue the guardian and protector of the religious, civil, and commercial rights of Great-Britain, and her colonies; and that your majesty's wisdom may ever be feconded by equally faithful, and spirited councils; and your commands executed with no less ardour, emulation, and fuccefs.

On our part, permit us humbly to af

fure your majefty, that your faithful citi

zens of London will, with unwearied zeal and chearfulness, contribute to fupport a vigorous profecution of this just and neceffary war; until your majesty, having fufficiently vindicated the honour of your crown, and fecured the trade, navigation, and poffeffions of your subjects, fhall enjoy the bleffing and the glory of giving repofe to Europe, of wholly attending to and promoting the virtue and happinefs of your people, and of cultivating all the fofter arts of peace.

Signed by order of Court,

JAMES HODGES. To which addrefs his Majefty was pleased to return this most gracious answer.

I return you my hearty thanks for this fresh mark of your affection to my perfon, and of your conftant zeal for the luftre of my arms, and for the glory of my reign. Your repeated affurances of chearful and steady support in the profecution of this neceffary war, are moft highly pleafing to me, and cannot fail to promote the desirable object of peace, on juft, honourable, and advantageous conditions. The city of London my always depend on my unwearied endeavours, for the fecurity and extention of their trade, navigation and

commerce.

They were all received very gracioufly, and had the honour to kiss his majesty's hand.

"Mr. CHAMBERLAIN!

"I

receive, with the trueft fense of gratitude, this great mark of respect the city of London is pleased to fhew towards me in their gift of the freedom, and which I can only impute to the high regard the ci tizens of London bear to the house of commons, and as a teftimony of their efteem for those who faithfully perform their duty to the public there.

"The expreffion of good will and kindnefs to me, which are used in conferring this honour upon me, however, little deferving I may think myself of them, do indeed affect me extremely, as an argument of the favourable opinion the city of Lon

don entertains of my fincere and dutiful endeavours to fupport, upon all proper occafions, the rights, privileges, and conftitutional independence of the commons of Great Britain.

"i beg my Lord-Mayor, aldermen, and the whole of the common-council, will accept my respectful and humble thanks upon this occafion, and be ailure of my conftant and warmeft wishes that this great metropolis may ever flourish in all prospe rity and dignity....in a dignity that becomes the metropolis of a great kingdom, and of which the city of London is so confiderable and refpectable a part."

An

There is much labour ftill wanted to cleanfe the ftable of biography: we fee nothing Herculean in what is here performed.

The Life and Literary Remains of Ralph Bathurst, M. D. Dean of Wells, and Prefident of Trinity College in Oxford. 8vo. Pr. 6s. DodЛley.

In the rubble of these remains there be many sparkles of wit and pleasantry.

A Letter to a Great M---r, on the Profpect of a Peace. 8vo. Pr. 2s. 6d. Kearsley. Dear heart! what a happy man the m---r is, in having the advantage of such able counsellors.

Dr. Ward's Differtations upon several Paffages of the facred Scriptures. 8vo. Pr. 35. Johnston.

Among these the reader will find fome learned remarks and judicious annotations.

A Course of the Belles Lettres: or Principles of Literature. Tranflated from the French of the Abbé Batteux, by Mr. Miller. In 4 Vols. 12mo. Pr. 125. Law. Light, fummer reading. Obfervations upon a Treatife on the Virtues of Hemlock in the Cure of Cancers. Pr. Is. 6d. Meres.

Sve.

We wish these observations had been a little more ripened by experience, before they were prefented to the public. A fhort Hiftory of Brighthelmstone, &c. 8vo. Pr. 1s. Johnston. Elegant, judicious, and philofophical. The Life and Extraordinary Hiftory of the Cheva ier John Taylor. In 2 Vols. 12mo. Pr. 6s. Cooper.

This rhapfody bears no small resemblance to the lectures of the chevalier himself, which we have heard with much profit and delectation,

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Almoran and Hamet: an Oriental Tale, 2 Vels. Pr. 6s. Payne. Elegant and moral.

Tarrataria: or Don Quixote the Second. 8vo. Pr. 1S. ud. Thrush.

A whimûcal medley of entertaining extravagance.

The Regifter-Office: a Farce. By J. Reed. 8vv. Pr. 1S. Davies.

This may pafs mufter among the legion of theatrical pieces lately enlifted in the fervice.

The Hiftory of James Lovegrove, Efq; In 2 Vols. Pr. 6s. Wilkie. Not void of entertainment.

Sophronia: or, Letters to the Ladies. 8vo. Pr. 38. Johnfton.

Rather commendable for decency, than remarkable for genius.

The Life of Mifs Fanny Brown, &c. By John Piper, Efq; 12mo. Pr. 35. Rofs. We are afraid this author may pipe a long time before he makes his readers

dance.

Capt. Gardiner's Memoirs of the Siege of Quebec, Capital of all Canada, &c. 410. Pr. Is. 6d. Dodsley.

The best way of afcertaining military facts is, to compare, in this manner, the accounts in which both fides have reprefented them.

A Narrative of the Lofs of his Majefty's Ship the Litchfield, &c. 8vo. Pr. Is. 6d. Davies.

This account would have been more interefting, had it been reduced to one-third of its prefent volume.

Lycoris or, the Grecian Courtezan. 8vo.
Pr. 28. Brotherton.
Equally impure and unentertaining.
The Anti-Rofciad. By the Author.
Pr. 6d. Kearsley.

410.

Is it that man attempts with eager clasp, To hold the prefent, doubtful of his doom; Imploring refpite at his latest gasp,

And fhock'd with horror at the yawning tomb?

IV.

Doth heav'n unusual terrors then display, To melt the foul, the ftubborn neck to bend? Or, pow'rful nature vindicate her sway, And ev'ry paffion roufe for fome great end?

V.

The reftlefs monarch, tofs'd in storms of state,

Begs the continuance of his regal toil:
The lab'ring hind implores a longer date,
Tho' doom'd with sweating brow to till the
foil.

VI.

The laurell'd chief train'd up in war's alarms, [breath;

Prompt in th' enfanguin'd field to yield his Yet, lull'd in peace and blefs'd with beauty's charms,

Begins to tremble at th' approach of death. VII.

Alike the vig'rous youth and bloomingmaid, Aghaft, behold the grifly king advance; The hoary fire and hag with eld decay'd, Shrink from the blow and tremble at his lance,

VIII.

See the lone widow o'er yon mournful bier Of her loft lord, opprefs'd with tender grief, Heave the deep figh,in filence drop the tear, Or call on death to give her woes relief: IX.

When lenient time hath footh'd her troubled breaft, [heart; And fome new confort chears her drooping Should death appear and promise endless rest, She'd eye affrighted his unerring dart--

X.

But happy he whom conscious virtue gives
A foul ferene, a firm, undaunted mind;
In peace, fecure, and hope, content he lives;
And when his fate demands him, dies re-
fign'd.

FE

NOON.

Ervid now the fun-beam glows, Drinking deep the morning gem: Not a dew-drop's left the rose,

To refresh her parent stem. By the brook the shepherd dines,

From the fierce meridian heat Shelter'd, by the branching pines,

Pendant o'er his graffy feat.

See, the flock forfakes the glade,

Where uncheck'd the fun-beams fall, Sure to find a pleasing shade

By the ivy'd abby wall.

Echo in her airy round

O'er the river, rock, and hill, Cannot catch a fingle found,

Save the clack of yonder mill. Cattle court the zephyrs bland,

Where the streamlet wanders cool;
Or with languid filence ftand

Midway, in the marshy pool.
But from mountain, dell, or stream,
Not a flutt'ring zephyr springs;
Fearful, left the piercing beam
Scorch its foft, its filken wings.

Not

Not a leaf has leave to ftir,

Nature's lull'd, ferene, and ftill! Quiet e'en the shepherd's cur,

Sleeping on the heath-clad hill! Languid is the landfcape round,

Till the fresh defcending fhow'r Kindly cools the thirsty ground.

And revives each fainting flow'r. Now the hill, the hedge, is green, Now the warbler's throat's in tune! Blythfome is the vernal scene, Brightened by the beams of Noon. J. CUNNINGHAM.

EVENING.

As the plodding ploughman goes

Homeward, (to the hamlet bound) Giant like, his fhadow grows,

Lengthen'd o'er the level ground. The fteer along the meadow ftrays Free.....the furrow'd task is done; And the village windows blaze,

Burnish'd by the setting fun. Mark him, from behind the hill,

Strike the purple-painted sky:
Can the pencil's mimic skill

Copy the refulgent dye!
Where the rifing foreft fpreads
Round the time-decaying dome;
To their high-built airy beds,

See the rooks returning home!
As the lark, with varied tune,

Carrols to the evening, loud,
Mark the mild-refplendent moon
Breaking through a parted cloud!
Now the hermit howlet peeps

From the barn, or twisted brake,
And the curling vapour creeps
O'er the lilly-border'd lake.
As the trout, in fpeckled pride,
Play ul, from its bosom springs,
To the banks a ruffled tide

Verges in fucceffive rings.
Tripping through the filken grafs
O'er the path-divided dale,
See, the rofe-complexion'd lafs

With the well-pois'd milking pail !
Linnets with unnumber'd notes,

And the Cuckoo bird with two, Tuning fweet their mellow throats, Bid the fetting fun adieu.

O D E.

For bis MAJESTY'S Birth-day, June 4, 1761. Written by WILLIAM WHITEHEAD, Efgs STROPHE.

'TWAS at the nectar'd feaft of Jove,

When far Alcmena's fon,
His deftin'd course on earth had run,
And claim'd the thrones above,
Around their king, in deep debate,
Conven'd, the heavenly fynod fate,
And meditated boons refin'd,

To grace the friend of human kind;
When lo, to mark the advancing God,
Propitious Hermes ftretch'd his rod,

The roofs with mufic rung!
For, from amidst the circling choir,
Apollo ftruck th' alarming lyre,

And thus the mufes fung,

"What boon divine would heav'n bestow? "Ye gods, unbend the studious brow, "The fruitlefs fearch give o'er, "Whilft we the just reward affign: "Let Hercules with Hebe join,

"And YOUTH unite with POWER!"
ANTISTROPHE,

O facred truth in emblem drest !----
Again the mufes fing,
Again in Britain's blooming king

Alcides ftands confest,

By temp'rance nurs'd, and early taught
To fhun the smooth fallacious draught,
Which sparkles high in Circe's bowl;
To tame each hydra of the foul,
Each lurking peft, which mocks its birth,
And ties the spirit down to earth

Immers'd in mortal coil :
His choice was that feverer road
Which leads to virtue's calm abode,
And well repays the toil.
In vain ye tempt, ye fpecious harms,
Ye flow'ry wiles, ye flattering charms,
That breathe from yonder bower 1
And heaven the just reward affigns,
For Hercules with Hebe joins,

And YouTH unites with POWER.
EPODE.

fhone,

O call'd by heaven to fill that awful throne Where Edward, Henry, William, George have [power agree (Where love with reverence, laws with And 'tis each fubject's birthright to be free) The faireft wreaths already won

Are but a prelude to the whole :
Thy arduous race is now begun,
And, starting from a nobler goal,

Heroes