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Is there, as ye fometimes tell us→→→
Is there one who reigns on high!
Has he bid you buy and fell us,

Speaking from his throne the sky!
Afk him, if your knotted scourges,

Fetters, blood-extorting screws, Are the means, which duty urges, Agents of his will to ufe?

Hark! He anfwers.-Wild'tornadoes, Strewing yonder fea with wrecks, Wafting towns, plantations, meadows, Are the voice with which he speaks. He, forefeeing what vexation

Afric's fens would undergo, Fix'd their tyrants habitation Where his whirlwind answers-No. By our blood in Afric wafted,

Ere our necks receiv'd the chain-
By the mistries which we tafted,

Croffing in your barks the main-
By our fufferings fince ye brought us
To the man-degrading mart,
All fuftain'd with patience taught us
Only by a broken h: art.

Deem our nations brutes no longer,
'Till some reason you thall find
Worthier of regard, and ftronger,

Than the colour of our kind. Slaves to gold whofe fordid dealings Tarnish all your boaßted powers, Prove that ye have human feelings, Ere ye proudly queftion ours.

ON THE MARRIAGE OF MISS BURNEY, TO A FRENCH OFFICER.

there a Mufe in Fame's illuftrious Found Un-fway'd, un-venal, un-ambitious, found?

Is there a nymph in Fashion's sparkling train That fcorns the wealthy, and rejects the vain? Spoil'd by no flattery,whom no interest moves, Distinguishes defert, and forrow loves? Yes-Evelina practis'd what she taught; Heroic conduct fprang from noble thought: Whilft adverfe nations direful battles wage, Unknown to party-zeal and factious rageAbove the errors of the vulgar throng, Who make all Virtue to one olime belong→ She greets with kindred love, as friend to all, The generous Briton, and the valiant Gaul. With equal candor was Religion view'd ; She knows no Church confines, no forms exclude;

Unfway'd by prejudice, unskill'd in ftrife, She judges Faith by morals, Truth by life; Whilft priests and bigets wrangle which is best

She fkreens the ftranger in her angel breast! Sept. 1793.

TO FORTUNE,

ON BUYING A TICKET IN THE IRISH LOTTERY.

W.

Composed during a Walk to and from the Queen's Head, Gray's Inn-Lane, Halborn, and Hornfly's and Co. Cornbill.

PROMPER

IPTRESS of unnumber'd fighs, fnatch that circling bandage from thine eyes!

O look, and smile! No common prayer.
Solicits, Fortune! thy propitious care!
For not a filken fon of drefs,

I clink the gilded chains of politeffe;
Nor afk thy boon what time I scheme
Unholy Pleature's frail and feverith dream;
Nor yet my view life's dazzle blinds
Pomp!--Grandeur !-Power!1-I give you
Let the little bofom cold [to the winds!
Meltonly at the fun-beam ray of gold
My pale cheeks glow-the big drops ftart→→
The rebel Feeling riots at my heart!
And, if in lonely durance pent,
Thy poor mite mourn a brief imprisonment
That mite at Sorrow's faintest found
Leaps from its fcrip with an elastic bound?
But, ah! if ever fong thine ear

Might footh, O hafte with fostʼring hand to One flower of Hope! at Love's heheft, [rear Trembling, I placed it in my secret breaft: And thrice I've view'd the vernal gleam, Since oft mine eye, with joy's electric beam, Illum'd it and its fadden bue

Oft-meiften'd with the tear's amhrofial dew!
Poor wither'd flowret! onats head
Has dark Defpair his fickly mildew shed!
But thou, O Fortune! canft relome
It's deaden'd tints-and thou with hardier
bloom

May it haply tinge its beauties pate,
And yield the unfurn'd stranger to the wel
cern gale!

SI TAC..

ELEGY,

ELEGY, BY MRS. WEST,

(Author of POEMS and & TRAGEDY.)

In the Character of the KING of FRANCE to bis Valet CLERY, on the morning of bis Execution."

OES faithful Clery waken me with lear's?

DOES

Oh! rather hail thy mafter's wifh'd releafe, And blefs the morning, which to me appears The welcome prelude to eternal peace. Pafs but one awful agonizing hour,

One arduous conflict let me but fastain, Then, rescued from the infolence of power, No bonds fhali hold me, and no bars reBrain.

No impious infults shall offend my ears,
No mang! d fubjects shock my startled eyes;
But I fhall lifte to harmonious spheres,

And gaze enraptur'd on unfolding fkies. Rumour no more fha l blazen every fault, Or Slander feign the crimes my foul abhorr'd: But pitying cherubs thro' the starry vault Shalf chant my fufferings, and their bright MX reward.

No longer fhall the helpless Sovereign-mourg
Q'er martyr'd friends, who teach him how
No longer fuffer at the hard return [to dieg
Of cold Ingratitude's averted eye.
Nombre from mifcreant tyrants fhall he crave
The poor fupplies they feantily with old;
In life's full fountain he shall largely lave,
And thine irradiate in celeftial gold.
No perishable crowns, the fatal lures

Of dire ambition, shall opprefs my brow Thy future pomp, Eternity, fecures,

And ftarry diadems await me now.
Long have the vileft of earth's abject race;
On proftrate greatnefs fix'd the scornful
heel;

Tir'd of reproach, injuftice, and difgrace,
I to the audit of my God appeal!
Come, faithful fervant, raise thy drooping
head,

Thy tears my wish'd beatitude delay;
Array thy mafter for his dufty bed,

'Tis the laft duty that thy love can pay..

That duty ended-feek thy widow'd Queen,
Much will the afk, and much haft thou to
tell;
Say, that, in confcious innocence ferene,
As Chriftians and as heroes fall, I foll.
Remind my fon, if haply he should live,

How much I needed, and enjoy'd, thy care; When I had nothing but diftrefs to give,

Thy generous duty claim'd in that a fhare. But fee, I'm fammon'd-GreatCreator! deign To pardon this,-yet, yet my country fave [vain, That peace thy fervant fought on earth in Give to his foul in worlds beyond the grave! 5

ELEGY, BY MRS, WEST,

In the Character of the QUEEN of FRANCE.

W

HEN happier mortals feek the fest relief

Of gentle fleep, anxiety's sweet balmy 'i, ki Thy tir'd tormentors leave me to a grief, No time can foften, and no opiate calm. Then, unobferv'd by those who proudly feast On the dumb anguish that o'erclouds my foul,

My gushing tears, from long constraint releas'd, [roll, Down my wan cheeks in copious torrents On Cynthia, emprefs of the night, I gaze, Still does her car along the Zodiac run, And Helper ftill, with undulating rays,

Imbibes a flood of brightness from the fun. All is not chang'd-thơ on Rebellion's (word Unwip'd the blood of Royalty remains; Tho' greatness, grace, and beauty once ador'd,

Unpity'd fuffers, and unheard complains. Ye ftars! bright emblem of thofe fastal days,

Which rofe unclouded on my early reign; When Flattery's voice, tumultous in my praife, With fhouting thousands fill'd my pageant train;

If, white unwearied thro' your spheres fublime,

In perfect order witing, ye furrey. Man, the poor perishable flave of time, To mutability and grief a prey

Behold a Queen, once eminently grac'a®

By way ward Fortune's evanefcent beara, See me to mifery's lowest verge debas'd, And but in fovereign wretchednefs fapreme.

Shut from each pitying friend, aghaft, alone,

Na kind affertor of my rights appears;. My infant boy, the heir of Gallia's throne, Receives no unction but his mother's tears, Oh, constellated glories! kindly shed

Some bleft prefage, my forrows to confole; Say, to what regiun is my husb and fled,

What happy orb receiv'd his parted foul? Soon muff we join him-in each echoing

wind

I hear the regicides demand our fate; "Hafte, they exclaim, extırminate the kind The infant cockatrice, and serpent's mate.”, Thou fainted spirit, now for ever freed

From human woes, imparadis'd with God, Canft thou thy trembling babes and confort lend [trod? Thro' the darks vale thy feet triumphant What tho' thy bleft example might infpire Serener thoughts, I ficken with alarms, Whilft, mufing on their immolated fire, A clafp my lumbering orphans in my arms

LAWal

God is the fource whence all our blifs muft flow,

To Him we fhall our future pleasures owe.
For ever, then, in God we must delight,
And endless blifs our endless love excite.
The Deity himself is love defin'd,
This was his image ftamp'd on human kind.
A Being most beneficent implies
One powerful, compaionate, and wife.

Have focial love and perfect friendshipcharms?
In heav'n each fool an equal ardour warms.
There undiffembled friendship will appear,
And focial love be ever found fincere.
A like to earth are Truth and Hope confin'd,
Heav'n is but Love's full empire o'er the mind.
EUSEBIA.

Ou bearing a FRIEND talk of leaving ENGLAND,

"TF bent to quit fair Albion's fhore,

86 Adieu! I'll ne'er upbraid thee more.
May keen remorse ne'er wound thy foul,
Nor thought of me thy joys controul !"
Though hope betray'd this heart may wring,
Which refted ev'ry hope on thee:
The barbed dart may deeply fting,
But fecret fhall its anguish be.
For, ah! thy happiness I prize

Beyond all mean or felfith views,
And pray each comfort may arife
To thee, and peace divine infufe.
Farewel! I'll feek the path of peace,
Refigned, in this changeful fcene;
And, though all buman hope may ceafe,
Religion can each thought ferene
With radiant hue, bright glowing hope infpire
Of future blifs! what more can man defire?

THE ENQUIRY, TO HILLARIO.

Quem piusille hofpes, nunc luctuviens amacos Jufferat ambages folvere rite viæ.

Per loca, virgulis et (pilis horrida dumis, Hoc duce, per dubium progrediuntur itør, Donec in adverfo, medioque in tramite,flumen Iftiguo curfu longiusire vetat.

Heu, quid agant? neque enim fluvium tranare valebant,

Ignoti et latices, et fine ponte, fluunt. Perluftrant, minimo fi forfitan intervallo Oppofitæ ripe proxima ripa côit. Jamque locum inveniunt, multis ubi lapfs ab annis

Arboris antiquæ truncus utrinque jacet... Hinc atque hinc unde glomerantur; at hor

rida quercus

Mole fua vaftas compede claudit aquas, Hoc vifu, famulus, "Coram eft quod' quærimus" inquit, [opem." Quod gritam optato tempóre præbet Nec plura effatus, fefe committere trunco Audet, nil metuens profpicienfve doli. Pone fequens juvenis veftigia paffibus æquis Dinumerat, medium dum peragatur iter Et nullam vifus peccandi omittere caufam Corripit incantum, præcipitemque jacit. Sterniter infelix, ubi duro vortice flumen Undantes gyros, tarbinis inftar, agitTer conatus ibi cervicem attollere fruftra! Obrutus, et vasto gurgite mersus, obit.

Cum terrore novo corda repente stupent, Cernit enim comitem humanam deponere formam

Infolitum cernit luxuriare decus— Ecce coronantur divina Ince capilli,

Quale micat radians Solis ab ore jubarUndulat immenfo finuofa volumine veitis, Quam nec ebur poterit nec fuperare nives Jamque pares alæ, vario fplendore colorum, Exfurgunt humeris, quas ucque cygnus habet

Ambrofra gratis impletur odoribus äer
Magnifico greffu Coelicola ipfe patet.
Ac veluti fevis agitati factibus olim

Hebræi dirò contremuere metu, Donec inatlyeto curfu fuper æquora Jasva Venit in auxilium, fpes, columenque fus; "Sint maria actutum tranquilla quiefcite, venti!"

Dixit, et extemplo cuncta quieta tacent, Sic furor ille fenis tenues vanefcit in auras Et requies animo, pax et antica, daturInteren loquitur, rumpitque filentia voce Angelus O quantum melia dieta placent!

(To be concluded in our Supplement).

MINUTES

THE Convention decreed, that, to perpetuate the memory of the re-union of the 10th of August, a brafs medal should be firuck, with a reprefentation of Nature on one fide, and on the other the ark of alliance and the fafces, with thefe words, "Constitution accepted indivifibly by the French the 10th of August 1793, the fecond year of the Republic."

Felix Pelletier, at the head of a deputation from the Jacobin Society, requested that bread, which in feveral places fold for 15 and 16 fous per lb. fhould be fold at three This petition was loudly applauded, and referred to the Committee of Agriculture and Commerce.

August 21. On a motion by Gossuin, the Convention decreed that the fum of 100,000 kvres thould be at the ditpofal of the Minifter of the Interior, to furnish provifions to Landrecy, threatened with a fiege by the Auftrians.

Barrere mounted the tribune, and gave an account of fome difagreeable intelligence from Lyons, which had gained over to its views the town of Montbrifon. The place of fitting, be faid, of the popular fociety of that antient capital of the ci-devant Forez, had been profaned by the perfumed perit maitres of Lyons; the furniture had been broken, and the papers burnt, as well as a painting of the Declaration of Rights. When the Primary Affemblies were convoked, few citizens had expretfed their will, and the greater part of the town refounded with fhouts of Vive Louis XVII' et au Diable ta Convention. The inhabitants of the country, thofe in particular of Boin, a neighbouring town, attempted to avenge fo many outrages; but they were furrounded by the petit maitres of Lyons, who cut them to pieces, and then proceeded to Boin, where they occafioned horrid devastation.

On a letter being read from Clermont Ferrand, deman fing speedy atlistance, the Convention decreed :,

I. That Couthon and Chateauneuf-Randon should repair to the fpot with unlimited powers.

II. That the fum of 30,000 livres should be kept ready, at the difpofal of the Adminiftrators of Clermont, to relieve the patriots who had fled to that city for fhelter.

August 22. After feveral addreffes and Jetters had been read, Cambrceres presented his plan for a new civil code; the following articles of which were adopted without any amendment.

OF THE STATE OF PERSONS.
Title 1.

General Difpofitions.

Article The Conftitution regulates the political rights of French citizens: it marks "GENT. MAG. December, 1793.

out those who are admitted to exercise them. II. Legiflation regulates their civil rights; thefe rights are the power of contracting, alienating, and difpofing of property by all the acts authorised by the law.

III. There exists in nature and the law relations between the individuals who compofe fociety; these relations constitute the ftate of perfons.

IV. Marriages, births, divorces, adoptions, and deaths, are inferted in public registers.

V. Majority procures to a citizen the full exercise of these rights: it is fixed at 21 years complete.

VI. Miners do not enjoy their civ rights; those of interdicted perfons are fufpended.

VII. A citizen may have feveral habitations, he has only one domicil. A domicil is the place where an individual exercifes his political rights, and discharges the duties of a citizen.

VIII. Foreigners, during their refidence in France, live under the laws of the Republic: they are capable of all the focial transactions which they admit their perfons and property are under the protection of the laws.

A deputation of Americans being admitted to the bar, the orator faid, "The Americans, ever faithful to their treaties, have braved all dangers, to fupply your ports with flour, rice, coffee, and other neceffaries: your brothers in the French coJonies have also been diftreffed, and we have been eager to go to relieve their wants: we would be glad to continue our efforts, but we are prevented by a decree, which, if it be maintained, violates your principles, and the treaties by which we are mutually connected. You doubtlefs do not wish to render enemies to each other two nations formed to love one another? You do not with to fet to Europe the fhocking example of violating treaties? We demand that you annul the decree which prohibits the expor tation of all kinds of provifions, and lenders us from fapplying our colonies." Petition referred to the Committee of Commerce and Marine, to make a speedy Report. August 23. Report of the Committee of public Welfare, refpecting the Rifing and Marching of all the French in one Body. Barrere." For this week past have we been deliberating on the best mode of or ganizing the great movement unanimously demanded by all the Commonalties of the Republic, and to give it that regularity, without which it would only become an additional weapon in the hands of our domestic and foreign enemies. We have upa

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