These tender doubts if you difpel, There, you beheld each virtue trac'd, I know, Integrity you faw, If fome faint fpeck you faw arife, Whofe brightest fun fill fhews its fpot! The DYING PROSTITUTE; By Thomas Holcroft. Who now behold but loath my faded face, I SING of the days that are gone, Of Werter who now is no more: Unhappy the hour I was born; His lois I fhall ever deplore, The grafs that waves high round his tomb Marks how fubject we are to decay, The Monarch muft here meet his doom, When death calle, even he must obey. Since life is uncertain on earth, Ah! why thould If rrow in vain ; The virtues that dwelt in his breaft Demands in fort pity a tear. Like a fountain it ever fhould flow; But my Werter, alas! is no more, And my heart is o'erburthen'd with wọc. Ohl give me but strength to retain The goodnels that dwelt in his heart: When life fhall no longer remain, We shall meet again never to part. So wan and fallow, chang'd with fin and Proper Epitaph for Shirley Fielding, Esq. Per trait Fainter, who lately died at Lutterworth, in extreme diftrefs. TERE, fhelter'd now from want, from cold neglect, iny memory meets pity, meets respect; 'Twas thine to call, from blended colours, T FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. HE advices in the foreign prints respecting the negociations between the Emperor and the Dutch are fill various and contradictory. Difpatches from Holland are faid to contain the terms on which the difpute was actually to be terminated, which, if authentic, are humiliating to their High Mightfneffes, and fuch as they were not accustomed to accede to in the days of their profperity: 1. An indemnification for the damage done by inundating a part of the country; 2. A fum of twelve millions of florins, in lieu of Maeftricht; 3. The ceffion of the two lordships beyond the Maefe to the Houfe of Auftria; 4. The unlimited right of navigating the Scheldt as far as Saftingent, and from thence to the fea, for Auftrian veffels only; and thefe paying a small duty. Thefe conditions agreed to, the treaty will foon be compleated. Thefe advices have, however, been flatly contradicted by others from Germany, while thofe from France confirm the fame; the former announce a difpofition for war, the latter, that every thing will amicably be fettled by an arrangement. If we truft in words, the latter appears most probable; if in actions, the former. Certain advices from Oftend leave no room to doubt, that a body of Auftrian troops has already entered that city, which is to be followed by another body, now in full march; and all accounts agree, that the Dutch are inceffant in their preparations; Gen. Moulteir, Gov. of Grave, a city in Dutch Brabant, has laid the environs of that city under water, to prevent an attack, though the inundation has extended over seven villages. Add to this, that the fettlement of the limits between the Auftrians and the Turks feems entirely at a stand; this, therefore, is not the immediate object of the Emperor's preparations. Another circum stance unfavourable to peace, is, that a body of 30,000 Ruffians, is juft arrived on the confines of Poland, fuppofed to be in march towards his Prufian majefty's dominions. On the 18th of April, the miferable inhabitants of Calabria Ultra, and Meffina, were again alarmed by the fhock of an earthquake, which in Calabria was fo violent, as to throw down fome of the barracks. On the 10th of March, the town of Patraffe, in the Morea, was utterly fwallowed up by an earthquake. The effects of the inundations in Germany this feafon have been unufually dreadful. The Elbe, the Oder, the Havel, and the Warta, have all overflowed their banks; and the dykes being broken down, the whole of the neighbouring country is laid under water. From Breslau, we hear the fudden melting of he fnow on the mountains, and of the thick ice on he rivers, has caufed fo great an inundation, that almost all the Lower Silefia is under water. The rivers Kofbach, Bober, Oder, and others, have fo rapidly overflowed their banks, that all the roads are rendered impaffable, and all communication is cut off. Advices from America. We learn that a new loan of two millions of guilders has been negociated in Holland by the honourable John Adams, minifter plenipotentiary of the United States of America, to the States General of the United Netherlands, with Mel. Welhern, and Jan Willink, Nicholas Van Staphurit. and de Land and Fynje. This contr has been ratified, and declared obligatory or the States of the Congrefs. The House of Affembly for the province of Pennfylvania have voted the fum of 150,000l. in paper money to be ftruck, in lieu of hard cash. It is a very unpopular step; but, as the public creditors were clamorous, it was necessary. The legislature of Virginia have given his excellency Gen. Washington fifty proprietary fhares in the new navigation up the river Potowmack, and one hundred in that on James Ri the former at 100l. fterling each, and the latter at two hundred dollars each; making in all 42,500 dollars. A donation worthy the commonwealth of Virginia. ver; From Hartford there is an account of a murder too fhocking to relate, committed by a man out of his fenfes on his wife, whom he fufpected to hold an intercourse with a familiar fpirit. As foon as he had killed her, he took the children, three in number, one of them from the mother's breaft, and carried them to a neighbour's house, where he confeffed what he had done, and expected to be commended for it. He was com mitted to gaol. BRITISH INTELLIGENCE. Scotland. T the late circuit court held at Glafgow, A David Steven was indicted for the pow der of Thomas Morton, by fhooting him through a window, while fitting at his focking-loom, in the work-shop of John Black, was found guily, and is to be executed on the 8th of June, and his body given to profeffor Hamilton, to be dif fected. At the former circuit court, this David Steven, with his father William, and his elder brother William, were to have been tried for a forgery on the Aberdeen bank; but the deceased, Thomas Morton, a principal evidence, being then in Ireland, the trial was June, 1785 deferred; and, in the mean time, Morton returned, and was thot by the convict in the manner above defcribed. London, Saturday, April 7. This morning a moit dreadful fire broke out ia a warehouse near the end of Stoney-lane, Horfley-down, Southwark, which deftioyed property to a vast amount. 14. The grand jury for Middlesex found a bill of indictment againt John Lockrell and a conftable his accomplice for perjury, having fworn against two men, Peter Newberry and William Ivefen (both capitally convicted and included in the dead warrant) but fince found innocent on the fuñleft enquiry, and (werp against TI only to obtain the reward. What punishment can be adequate to such an offence? His majelty has been pleafed to grant his free pardon to Peter Newberry and Thomas Ivefon, the two men falfely fworn to have robbed John Lockrell on the highway. 20] His R. H. Prince Edward embarked on board the Augufta yacht, Captain ElphinNone from Greenwich for Stadt, in his way for Germany. 26.] This morning, at five o'clock, as the mail cart was coming over Blackheath, the driver observed a lady fruggling for life; he went to her affiftance, and found her with a rope tied round her neck, naked to her fhift, which had the marks cut out, as likewife out of ber filk ftockings. She had on fattin fhoes with filver buckles; appeared about 17 years of age, and was fo far exhaufted, that nothing could be learned from her ftory but the name of Dunmore, and fomething relative to a poft-chaife. She was taken to the Woolpack at Deptford; and as foon as she was able to speak, the related as follows: her name is Bridget Bonner, the believes fhe was born in Bristol, continued there till five years old, where he had the fmall pox; her parents died in her infancy; and the was left under the care of her uncle, whole name was Charles Ruffel, a captain formerly in the Guines trade, and failed from Bristol, at which place he occafionally refided, but died about fix years ago at Edinburgh, and was buried there. At the age of five years the was placed with Mrs. Patterson, who lodged at Dunbar, with whom the refided, and was inftructed in the neceffary part of female education, and with whom the lived till nine years of age. When the left Mrs. Paterfon, fhe went to live with her uncle Ruffel, who soon after put her to fchool at Mifs Brown's, on the College-green in Briftol, with whom the remained till fifteen years of age; her uncle about that time married a lady of the name of Brown, and the refided with her uncle in the Cowgate, Edinburgh, till his death, which was about three or four months after his marriage; that in her uncle's laft illness, when his wife and Mr. Thomas Dunmore, who was a particular acquaintance, were in the room, he took an opportunity to recommend her particularly to their care, and faid he had left her five hundred guineas, which was as much as he could afford; that Mrs. Ruffel, about three months after Mr. Ruffel's decease, married Mr. Thomas Dunmore before-mentioned, and the continued to refide with Mr. and Mrs. Dunmore in lodgings in the Cannongate for a year and half; after which they removed to other lodgings near the Leith Wind, where they continued to refide till they all quitted Scotland about a month ago; that Mrs. Dunmore was executrix to her late hufband's will, as the believes, and that the female fervant who lived with them at the Cannongate, was named Peggy Duncan; that after her uncle Ruffel's death the was kept very much confined and never fuffered to go out alone, and, when ever the afked questions refpecting any perfons or places, received from Mrs. Dunmore always evafive anfwers, and that she was kept in as much Senorance as poffible: that Mr. and Mrs. Dunbeste kept no company at their own house, and the remembers hearing him often mention the name of Mr. Birch, who lived fomewhere in that neighbourhood, and of a Mr. Irvine, near Dunfries; that Mr. Dunmore made frequent excus fions from home to York, Duntries, and other places, and was generally abfent about two or three months at a time, and once in particular for fix months; that Mr. Dunmore did not follow any profeffion or business as the knew of that being of age laft Christmas, fhe asked Mr. Dunmore for her legacy, who paid it her all in gold about a fortnight before they quitted Edin burgh, and with profethons of great kindness; that Mrs. Dunmore in general treated her with harthness, for which Mr. Dunmore often checked ber; that on Thursday the 5th inftant Mr. and Mrs. Dunmore and herself quitted the Cannongate, Edinburgh, the furniture of the house being previoully fold to a roupingwoman, as he called it; that the phaeton was marked with the initials T. D. and they all arrived in London on Sunday last about feven in the evening, and paffing through feveral ftreets, they stopped at a house. A tall young lady came to the door much masked with the fmall-pox, and very red hair, whom they called Mifs Brown, and an elderly lady; that Mr. Dunmore went away with the phaeton, and herfell, Mrs. Dunmore, Mils Brown, and the other lady, in doors: after a few minutes, Mrs. Dunmore and Mifs Brown retired from the room, and foon coming in again, Mrs. Dunmore faid Mifs Brown had received a letter from Dover, informing her, that Mrs. Dunmore's brother was very ill there, and that if Mrs. Duamore did not make hafte to fee him, the would not fee him alive. Mrs. Dunmore faid fhe would let off that evening, but Mr. Dunmore then coming into the room, he advised Mrs. Dunmore not to go till the morning, which was agreed to. Mrs. D. asked her to go, as it would be only a few days, when they would return to London together, and the might fee the town to which the agreed; and Mr. Dunmore alfo afked her what the intended to do with her box of cloaths and money: the answered, it would be better to take them with her, as it was all together in the trunk, than leave it there, as fhe knew nobody in the house. Accordingly, at three o'clock in the morning, Mr. Dunmore's phaeton came to the door with fresh horfes, and a boy riding on one of them. Mr. and Mrs. Dunmore, and Mils Brown, got into the phaeton, and the rode a faddle horfe; the phaeton horfes were dark brown, and the horse the rode a bay; the boy who rode one of the horfes had a light-coloured drab jacket on and a narrow gold lace round his hat, feemingly all much wors; berself dressed in a light-brown cloth habit, white cape turned down, black beaver hat and ribband. In this manner they proceeded till they came on Blackheath, where Mr. Dunmore ftopt the phaeton, and called to her that Mrs. Dunmore was fainting, and defired the would come and affift her, and give her the smelling bottle. She rode up to the fide of the phaeton, got off her horfe, ftood on the step, and held the fmelling bottle to Mrs. Dunmore; at this inftant Mrs. Dunmere feized her by the collar of her riding habit, and puthing her very forcibly backwards, Mifs Brown and Ms. Dunmore got out of the phaeton, and Mits Brown attempting to lay hold of her, the ftruck Milk Brown twice or thrice; Mrs. Dun, more got behind her, and pulled her backwards, and both of them tell on her, to that the tainted away, and was infenfible of what was afterwards done to her, except feeling a denfation like cutting her neck and the back of her head, and a great heat in her face: the had in her pocket, at the time, five fhillings and two dollars, on one of which was engraved Samuel Montgomery: e adds, that Mrs. Dunmore is about fixty years of age, and Mr. Dunmore 47 or 48, and her trunk, in which was her money and clothes, marked B. Bonner in brass nails; when brought by the boy of the mail-cart to the publick-house on Deptford-bridge, he was quite infenfible, and continued to till medical affiance was had from the Kent Difpenfary in that neighbourhood. At eight in the morning one of the surgeons of that charity was fent for, who found her infenible and in strong convulúons'; in a few hours her life was out of danger the now remains very weak, her speech low, and but just intelligible. The above minute relation, as taken in the prefence of feveral gentlemen, is inserted for the purpofe of leading to a difcovery of the perfons who could be guilty of so atrocious a crime; or, if this should prove to be an impofition, which feems more probable, that the perfons laid to be concerned may have an opportunity of vindicating their characters from fuch a foul charge.. Extra of a letter from a Gentlemen at Teneriffe, to his Friend in Glasgowy, Dec. 18, 1784 : an asylumn on their fhore; that it was cruel and unjust to inflict the fevereft of all punishments upon, them, for tranfgreffing a temporary law of the country, which they could not poffibly be acquainted with; and that though they should be infected, the spot of ground they occupied effectually fecured the inhabitants from catching the infection, by only guarding the avenueoffering to maintain these unhappy ftrangers, until the Governor General of the islands refiding at Teneriffe, thould know the cafe. Unhappily their humane fentiments were not liftened to by Briz and others, who adopted the fcandalous and bloody refolution of flaughtering them without mercy or delay. Accordingly the militia, armed and officered with the accurfed Briz, at their head, marched to the place where the horrid deed was to be executed. They found the poor victims difparfed along the beach; the men, fome gathering thell-tith, and others walking together in fociable parties; the women, were fome fitting on the fand, combing and dreffing one another's hair, others wathing fome linen in the fea water, and others fondling their infants. Thus fituated they were found by their infernal butchers, who, in order to gather them together, to perpetrate with more cale their diabolic purples, caltdown an empty cak upon the beach. The unhappy people, thinking it was fome kind relief intended for them, immediately flocked together where the cafe ftood; and there the bloody malacre began. Humanity revolts at the hocking idea :-fuffice it to fay, that in a few minutes an end was put to all their exifteace, except one of the women, who took fhelter with her child between two rocks, and of a man, who, after having a ball lodged in his arm, took to the fea, where he kept fwim to cling to a rock to efcape drowning, was there cut in pieces with a fabre-the woman was alfo foon followed in her retreat, and itabbed to death with a knife, as was the infant on her breaft. "That merciless mifcreant the governor was the firft that fired his piece, and obferving a vifible backwardness in many of the militia, in following his example, he threatened them with instant death if they hefitated in the leaft; and to how he was in earnest, knocked down the nearest mat, to him, with the butt-end of the muket, for appearing reluctant to the flaughter. "BY a bark which arrived here on the 14th inftant," from the island of Hierro (one of the Canary Inlands fubject to Spain) we have an account of a most melancholy event, which took place on the 7th, in that ifand. On the 6th, a veffel displayed white colours, landed 37 peoming upwards of two hours, but being obliged ple, amongst whom were five, or as fome fay, feven women, fome of them with infants in their arms. They came on fhore on a beach on the S. W. part of the island, furrounded on the land fide by high and inacceffible rocks, which entirely prevented all ingrefs into the country, except at one particular part, where there is a fteep and narrow defile, through which one perfon at a time may pafs. This inlet was immediately fecured by fome of the islanders, who, happened to be near, whilft others went to the town, and gave an account of the coming of thele people to the governor, Don Juan Briz Calderon: this officer convened the council of as it is called here caveldor. Unfortunately for thele devoted people, very strict orders had been Mued (in confequence of the plague raging in fome parts of Europe) nos to admit any veffels whatever, until, upon a due examination of their papers it fhould appear there was no danger of infection. The governor fearing, or pretend ing to fear, that the newcomers might poffibly have the plague amongst them, propofed the horrid measure of cutting them all off. Some of the caveldo, to their lafting honour, ftrenuoully opposed to fhocking a step, and pleaded the caufe of the innocent victims, and of humanity itfelf. They argued that thefe unhappy ftrangers all appeared healthy; that fome unavoidable diftrefs might have compelled them to feek "The news of this favage act of barbarity has been received at Teneriffe, by all ranks of people, with the deepest concern and regret, and by none more than the Governor General, who deplores it extremely. He could not at first, give credit to it; but was at length convinced of the fatal truth by letters from the infernal wretch, Briz himself. Exafperated to the higheft pitch, he has given a commiffion to an Officer of rank to go over to Hierro to take cognizance of this tragical affair. "It is not yet known with certainty of what nation thefe unfortunate people were; but it is generally fuppofed they were from Ireland, or Scotland, going to America. All that is wrote, 1 affirm as truth." Note: These were the unhappy convicto fremt 462 Irelan he immediately embarked with three watermen in a small boat, and croffed the river: the boat did not want above three lengths of the bank, when it ftruck against a tree, and in an inftane they all, together with the boat, disappeared. A few minutes after the Duke rofe again, and fupported himself a short time by taking hold of the tree, but the violence of the current foon bore him down, and he never appeared more. The boatmen, more fortunate, were every one faved, and the Duke alone became the victim of his own humanity. The whole city is in affiction for the loss of this truly amiable prince, whofe humility, gentleness of manners, and A 125 and 8 months compaffionate to alt ranks. He lived indeed as he died, in the highest exercife of humanity. Had not the current been fo rapid, he would no doubt have been faved, as he was a remarkable good swimmer,”—May'1. In Holles-freet, Mifs Catherine Steuart, milliner. Her death was occafioned by her cloaths catching fire on the evening before.-3. Pollock, Sir James Maxwell, bart.-5.-la Ruffel-ftreet, Covent Garden, in his 75th year, Mr. Thomas Davies, bookseller; a man of uncommon ftrength of mind, and who prided himfelf in being through life" a companion of his fuperiors." In 1728 and 1729 he was at the univerfity of Edinburgh, completing his education; and in 1736 we find him among the Dramatis Perfona of Lillo's celebrated tragedy of "" Fatal Curiofity," at the theatre in the Haymarket, where he was the original reprefentator of Young Wilmot, under the management of Henry Fielding. He afterwards commenced bookfeller in Duke's-court, but met with misfortunes which induced him to return to the theatre. For feveral years he belonged to various companies at York, Dublin, and other places, at the first of which he married his wife, Mifs Yarrow, daughter of a performer there, whofe beauty was not more remarkable than her private character has ever been unfallied and irreproachable. About 1752 he returned to London, and with Mrs. Davies was engaged at Drury-lane, where they remained for leveral years in good eftimation with the town, and played many characters, if not with great excellence, at leaft with propriety and decency. Churchill's indifcriminate fatire has endeavoured to fix fome degree of ridicule on Mr. Davies's performance; but the pen of a fatirift is not entitled to implicit credit. Mr. D. exchanged the theatre for a fhop in Ruffel-street, about 1762; and we should have been happy could we have recorded that his efforts in trace had been crowned with the fuccefs which his abilities in his profeffion merited. In 1778 he became a bankrupt; when, fuch was the regard entertained for him by his friends, that they rendily confented to his re-establishment; and This patriarchal rarity was gardener to the late hon John Smith Barry, who, in confideration of his great age and long fervices, left him an annuity of gol. which he enjoyed, with unufual health, till about two years before his death. He has a fon now living, turned of go, who works at a manufactory in Lancashire, and promifes fair to arrive at as great an age as his late father. Letters from Italy mention, that Thomas Riddie, Efq, the gentleman who lately fought a duel with the hon. col. Cafinò Gordon, was drowned as he was bathing in the Po; he was just coming home to take poffeffion of a large eftate left him in the north of England.-April 19. in his 59th year, Count Daun, chamberlain and lieut. gen. at Vienna.-30. At Frankfort on the Oder, Prince Leopold, of Brumwick, fon of the reigning duke of Brunswick, having gone upon the waters on the 27th of April, to relieve the inhabitants of a village that was overflowed, the boat overfet, and his highness was unfortunately drowned. The Leiden Gazette gives the following account of this unfortunate event: "We have within thefe few days experienced the great eft calamities by the overflowing of the Oder, which burft its banks in feveral places, and carried away houfes, bridges, and every thing that oppofed its courfe. Numbers of people have loft their lives in this rapid inundation; but of all the accidents arifing from it, none is fo generally lamented as the death of the good prince Leopold of Brunswick: this amiable prince ftanding at the fide of the river, a woman threw herfelf at his feet, befeeching him to give orders for fome perfons to go to the refcue of her children, whom, bewildered by the fudden danger, fhe had left behind her in the houfe: fome foldiers, who were alfo in the fame place, were crying out for help. The Duke endeavoured to procure a flatbottomed boat, but no one could be found to venture acrofs the river, even though the Duke offered large fums of money, and promifed to fhare the danger. At laft, moved by the cries of the unfortunate inhabitants of the fuburb, and being led by the fenfibility of his own benevolent heart, he took the refolution of going to their affiftance himself: thofe who were about him eadeavoured to diffuade him from this hazardous enterprife but touched to the foul by the diftrels of tilerable people, he replied in the following words, which fo nobly picture his character: "What am I more than either you or they? I am a man like yourselves, and nothing ought to be attended to here but the voice of humanity." Uuthaken, therefore, in his refolution, none of them," as he fays himself, “ were more active to ferve him than those who has fuffered moft by his misfortunes. But all their efforts might poffibly have been fruitless, if his great and good friend Dr. Johnfon had not exerted all his power on his behalf." He called upon ali over whom he had any influence to affift Tom Davies, and " prevailed on Mr. Sheridan, patentee of Drury-lane theatre, to let him have a benefit. which he granted on the most liberal terms. |