NEW-YEAR's DAY. Nce more my days their circling race On every hour that flies: Is noted in the skies. Tremendous thought! with holy dread, We fear to mingle with the dead Till fins be left behind. Then to the paths of duty hafte, And let thy zeal be warm; And what was wrong in seasons past, Let future life reform. So fhould the feafons as they fly, More kind and good appear: And ev'ry virtuous foul will cry, "I've seen a happy year." Marshfield, Dec. 31. 1779. The DUELLISTS. What is this honour, that impells W. o. By the late Earl of BATH. Ain are the charms of white and red, Sweet Cupids, as in ambush, lie. Of num'rous years my blifs deftroys; And then to please and ease me dies. ADVICE TO INDIVIDUALS. Whatever station in the world May be affign'd to thee, The duties of that station next First learn to know thy Maker's will, Your task of duty then fulfil With chearfulness and fear. Chearful obedience well becomes Th'enfanguin'd mind to murderous Fear of offending may affift deed? Guide Virtue's facred fteps along. Nor make, till God's appointed day, A short character of MILTON. From CAN DOUR, a poem printed in 1739. father throng, The Chritian courfe to steer. Be guided thus, and all your days That you may be in Nature's chain SENIOR. On the Academy for teaching Grown Gentlemen to dance. By the late DAVID GARRICK, Efq; MARSEILLES no more shall boast his Which form'd the youth of France, MVTON, fage filiber of the face his fong: He only bends the pliant twig; In Heaven, he seems to palliate Satan's pride; • Duelling was unknown in the fouthern parts till the incurfion of the Goths and Vandals. Alluding to the fupport which Queen Caroline, when Princess of Wales, generously bestowed on Mrs Clark, a daughter of Milton, who was in neceffitous circumftantes. You ftrike a bolder stroke! On the death of CAPTAIN COOK. [44.] New wonders open to his eyes; ODE to BRITANNIA For the year 1780. Occafioned by our late successes. [41.669, 679.] By ROBERT ALVES, A. M. (Published, Jan. 19. 6d. Creech.] I. T laft BRITANNIA wakes to war, And founds the dread alarms; No more the fits in dumb despair, With downcaft eyes, and folded arms: She starts at once from trance profound, And shakes the shining spear, and meditates the wound. II. See from SAVANNAH's thundering fhores See perch'd on OмOA's topmost towers She waves her wings of flaming gold, III. Yes they return: DALRYMPLE's noble fire Nor thofe the leaft of SCOTTISH line; Yet war, and all its dreadful fhew, She only afks the vengeance due, And points the stroke of Fate. Juftice and Heaven befriend her cause, Till back to Liberty and Laws, The wretched the reclaim. It appears evidently, from all the accounts which we have received of the repulfe of the French at Savannah, that this fuccefs was owing, not only to the timely aid brought by Col. Maitland, but to that firmness with which his prefence infpired the Britif counfels: And although his fervices have been mentioned with fo much coldness by the commander in chief, his country justly afcribes to him the Jafety of the Southern army. [41.715] VOL. XLII. Vain then, to rebel-madness join'd, The rage of Bourbon fierce combin'd, To shake our ftedfast Isle; She hears the murmuring billows rise, And tofs and thunder to the skies, And hears them with a fmile. On peaceful plains how better far, To hear the diftant din of war; To wield the spade, to guide the plough, To work the fleece of golden glow; Bid Arts and bufy Commerce pour Their liberal gifts from fhore to shore; To teach the peafant's heart to fmile, To ease the wretch's pang a while; Till want, and pain, and poverty are fled: O Gallia! yet be still; or learn to dread Heaven's awful vengeance on thy guilty head. VI. Hail to a fifter-kingdom's joy, That now can feek the pole, or fly O'er all to bid her Commerce shine; And all are bound in Commerce' golden chain. VII. By Heaven ordain'd to rule the feas, Far as the winds can blow; To waft our trade in every breeze, While Concord now unites our hearts, VIII. Thus, ALBION, know thy native might, Then wide, as where the Atlantic rolls, And own thy force divine; The world, the world is thine. E DZ ODE to WAR". Tranflated from the King of PRUSSIA. WHen will thy frantic rage, with ruth lefs hand, Bellona, ceafe to defolate the land? Why do we fee, on every plain and flood, Such torrents lavish'd of heroic blood? O'er all the earth, with unrefifted fway, Sword, fire, confusion, plunder, famine, reign: Nor can the boundless ocean aught furvey, But wrecks of fhips deftroy'd, and coarfes of the flain. Say, does this fiend, with front of brafs endued, Of blood infatiate, though with blood imbrued, This fiend of war, the world in fetters hold, fheers Which follow and avenge fuch cruel deeds, O'erfpread with cypress all our defolated climes. + What tranfports feize my foul! what fudden fires! Some God my fenfes fteals, fome God infpires: Tis Phœbus' 'felf, his heav'n-born genius deigns, To teach my feeble voice immortal strains. Let all the world an awful filence keep, Ye kings, ye people, liften to my lay, And let a while your frantic fury fleep, To hear the truths I fing, to hear them and obey. Ye judges of mankind, their Gods by birth, Ye proud oppreffors of this wretched earth, Tho' by your hands dire thunderbolts are thrown, Though in your chains thefe captive people groan, Reftrain the rigour of refiftless force; feel; From all their bofoms, ftabb'd without remorfe, Streams your own vital flood, and ftains the murderous fteel. · Inferted in Mr Sherlock's letters. + Mr Sherlock has quoted only the four following flanzas; but the tranflator has given the whole Ode. A tender monarch, like this fhepherd fwain, Wreaths ftain'd with blood he nobly fcorns to But to his virtue future glory owes ; [wear Such was that ancient, that heroic pair, AURELIUS, TITUS, thus to deathlefs honour role. Abhorr'd be these inteftine wars, these brand Leads forth aftonifh'd Afia's powerful race To urge with fpeedier courfe the direful wod of Fate. Barbarians fwarming from Siberia's coafts, From your bright manfion in yon azure sky, Then we, amidst our laurels ftain'd with gore Hillips, whofe touch harmonious cou Phillips, remove HISTORICAL AFFAIRS. RUSSIA. "London, Jan. 11. A gentleman lately arrived from Petersburg has favoured us with the following particulars concerning Ruffia in its present state.-Army confifts of 170,000 men;-Navy 28 sail of the line, 14 frigates, fix fire-ships; -18,600 men inrolled to serve on board 20 fail of the line and fix frigates, can at any time fail at ten days notice.-Revenue 4,200,000l. per ann." "Warfaw, Dec. 1. The Ruffians, who have been a long time hard at work, endeavouring to render the Niefter navigable near the well-known cataracts, have advanced so happily, that veffels of a tolerable fize now go over the rocks which formerly ftopped the paffage of that river. It is faid, that by means of this opening, Eaft-India goods may be brought directly from Afia, and fo into Ruffia at little expence. The environs of these cataracts are cultivating and peopling; and as the climate is fine, and the government gives great encouragement to all who eftablish themselves there, it will, in all probability, become a fertile and well-inhabited country." GERMANY. "Munich, Nov. 6. The fudden overflowing of the Iser occasioned the utmoft confternation in this capital on the 30th of October at night. The focfin was rung; and the cries of the inhabitants, on feeing the river in a moment quit its bed, were truly dreadful. Those it reach ed firft had fcarce time to fave their valuables, and take their cattle from the ftables, which were half filled with water.-In two hours time the market call ed Lau, and the quarter of Leher, were nine feet in water. Nothing was to be feen for full four and twenty hours but the ruins of houfes, furniture, and even the dead bodies of men and animals float ing. On the 2d inft. the flood began to abate." "Vienna, Dec. 24. They write from Upper Hungary, that a mountain in the neighbourhood of Sarmafag, a village in the palatinate of Szelnock, has continued burn ing ever fince last spring. Some naturalifts in the country, attentive to this phænomenon, have difcovered fire iffuing from the middle of the mountain, which is a little funk in some places, and its fuperficies cracked at certain diftances. A ftick of between four and five feet long, thruft into one of the chinks, has taken fire, and, on drawing it out, fparks flew from it. The interior fire feems to extend daily towards the fuperficies. The fmoke exhaled from the different orifices, spreads a fulphurous smell." FRAN C E. By an edict, dated in November, five millions are to be raised on life-annuities, at the rate of ten per cent. on a fingle life, of nine per cent. on two lives, eight and a half per cent. on three lives, and eight per cent. on four lives; the whole subject to a deduction of one tenth-part. They write from Coox, in the Lower Poitou, of Nov. 24. that the dyfentery had produced an event in that province scarcely credible. In a village compofed of thirty houses, all the inhabitants are dead of that diftemper, except one perfon; and what is no lefs extraordinary, as they were all relations, the furvivor enjoys the whole inheritance of the deceased perfons. ENGLAND. The following accounts have been received of Capt. Cook. [39. 59.] "Peterburg, Dec. 1. Towards the end of laft April, two English veffels Paul in Kamfchatka: they ftaid till the touched at the port of St Peter and St first week in May, and were fupplied very plentifully with every kind of provifions from the magazines of the crown eftablished there. On being questioned, world; and from this, and feveral other they faid they were going round the circumftances, there is little doubt of their being the Refolution, Capt. Cook, and the Discovery, Capt. Clerke. This fact is related in a letter received a few days ago from a private perfon in Kamgiven, according to the ufual custom, to fchatka. The ministerial report is first the Governor of Irkutz on the frontiers of China, and will not arrive here till fome time hence. It is added, that the ships bore no appearance of having met with any accident in the long voyage they had already performed, and that the crews were healthy and in fpirits." Lond. gaz. of his Majefty's floop the Refolution, in Admiralty-office, Jan. 11. Capt. Clerke, a letter to Mr Stephens, dated the 8th of June 1779, in the harbour of St Peter F 2 and and St Paul, Kamchatka, which was received yesterday, gives the melancholy account of the celebrated Capt. Cook, late commander of that floop, with four of his private mariners, having been killed on the 14th of February laft, at the island of O'why'he, one of a group of new-difcovered iflands, in the 22d degree of North latitude, in an affray with a numerous and tumultuous body of the natives. Capt. Clerke adds, that he had received every friendly fupply from the Ruffian government; and that as the companies of the Refolution, and her confort the Discovery, were in perfect health, and the two floops had twelve months ftores and provifions on board, he was preparing to make another attempt to explore a northern paffage to Europe." Lond. gaz. A letter from Berlin, of Jan. 11. fays, "Our famous geographer, M. de Bufching, hath just received a letter from M. Pallas, profeffor of the Imperial Academy of Petersburg, dated Dec. 21. containing a recital of the unhappy end of the famous English traveller, Capt. Cook, as follows. He made feveral new discoveries in the South fea, he arrived in the month of March 1778 on the coafts of America, fituated in the fouth of Kamschatka. A leak being discovered in Capt. Cook's fhip, the Refolution, and finding a very stormy fea, obliged him to anchor in a bay in that part of the coaft. After having repaired his own fhip, they both put to fea, and failing along the coaft, they at⠀ laft diftinctly difcovered the ftrait between Afia and America. The two parts of the world prefented only, at that height of latitude, a low barren land, without any shelter, and a fea of a very middling depth. They continued their route till they perceived diftinctly the American coaft, extending to the northeaft. He then thought himself arrived near to the bounds of his wishes; but when he came to 70 deg. 45 min. lat. and 198 degrees of long. (probably reckoning from Greenwich), he met with impenetrable mountains of ice, which obliged him to turn towards the fouth. He caft anchor near the island Unalafchka, whence Capt. Cook dates his letter. fixes that ifland in 53. 55 lat. and 192. 30 long. confequently giving that island a more western and fouthern pofition than is in the new general chart of Ruffia. As he then found himself to the east of Sandwich island, which he had paffed in his voyage, he reasonably thought he muft meet with other iflands; he therefore failed again, in order to pass the autumn and the winter in a more temperate climate. He actually discovered divers other islands, which appeared to him extremely fertile, and where the inhabitants had raised ftone walls upon the heights, for their defence. He caft anchor at one of thefe iflands, named 0why-he, in the gulph of Caraca-Coffa, and treated very amicably with the natives, who paid him almost divine ho-1 nours. After he had refreshed his people, one of whom only had died in the voyage, and two others had fallen fick, he was already got under fail, when a furious ftorm hurt his mizen-maft, which obliged him to return to the gulph, to repair it. The islanders became every day more bold, and moft clearly demonftra ted their inclination for theft, which went fo far as to steal one of his boats. Capt. Cook, willing to feek juftice for this robbery, went on fhore, with his lieutenant, and ten or twelve of his crew. He advanced towards a large body of the inhabitants "The Imperial court and fenate had received, in the month of November laft, an account from Kamfchatka, that fome English fhips had appeared in the feas of that coaft; and perhaps that news had arrived here fome time before; but it was not made public till then. At length laft week difpatches were delivered to the Chevalier Harris, envoy from the court of London to our court, from Capt. Clerke, who commanded the Discovery, under Capt. Cook, and also a letter to Mr Stephens, fecretary to the Admiralty. By an extract from thefe difpatches, which I have read, it appears, that Capt. Cook, after he had paffed the Cape of Good Hope, had continued his course along Van Diemen's land, and New Zealand. He arrived happily in Auguft 1777 at the inland of Otaheite, where he landed Omiah, a native of that ifland, in perfect health. Since the laft voyage of Capt. Cook to that ifland, the Spaniards had landed there twice, and stayed there fome months, and their fhips had left there all forts of birds and domestic animals, but only of the male fpecies; fo that they received the cows and the fhe-goats that Capt. Cook brought there, with great pleasure. He left that island in the month of December following; and after having |