EREMITA. (Concluded from p. 1136.) [N. B. In p. 1136, 1. ult. for melia read mellea.] INNO "vitam, IX. "INNOCUOS mores, juftam fine crimine [videt. "Alme fenex, DOMINUS, plenus amore, Cui virtus, castæque precès, et vota piorum "Grata, ut odoriferis thura cremata focis. "Hæ dotes noftras regiones ocyus intrant, "Angelicumque cient, non fine laude, "chorum. "Et Pater, angores cordis miseratus amaros, "Ipfe tibi lucem confiliumque refert. "Miffus ad hoc, pacis regnum cooleste re"linquo. "Ne mihi fleste genu-fervus et ipfe DEI. "Tuque adeò divina oracula feculus audi"Adbibe fincero pectore dicta, fenex"Et fugiant dubiam turbantia nubila mentem "Ut fugit Eous, Sole micante, vapor. [tor "Principio, Omnipotens cœli terræque Crea"Omnia quæ fecit vindicat ipfe fibi-[ni, Nec tamen, æterni linquens penetralia reg"Dignatur propriâ cuncta movere manu. "Illius ad nutum fidi funt mille miniftri, "Qui, dicto citius, quicquid agatur, agunt. "Et quia Majeftas, atque intolerabile Lumen "Mortali fenfu non potuere capi. "Infidet æthereo folio, mortalia cernens, "Quæ fint, quæ fuerint, quæque futura "manent; [voluntas "Libera dum reftans hominum inviolata "Huc illuc fefe flectere jura potest. "Quanta tibi ante oculos dudum miracula "furgunt! [vent! "Quam variæ fpecies territa corda mo"At Fontes rerum, caufafque ab origine [tris. "Ipfe filem oftendam, juftitiamque Pa"His rite edo&us,mentis compefce tumultum ; "Cætera, quæ nefcis tolvere, mitte DEO. "Magnificus Dives, qui luxuriofior æquo, “ narrans, "Cui varis gemut menfa repleta cibis, Area cu celfam fulgentia veft per auiam "Et matutino pocula plena mero, "Amillo cyatho, mores mittet in quos; "Seque dehinc felix ad menora dabit. "Pandere adhuc feffis ert .ntibus oftia difcet, "At fugere et luxus, et prohibere nefas. "Sed mifer ille, gravi cui ftridens cardine porta "Pauperibusaunquam præbet amica finum, Jam tandem, accepto cyatho, clementior "Et larga mat, diftribuitque manu audit, 44 Confcius, anteaétæ deplorat crimina vitæ, "Et ritè in melius cunéta referre ftudet "Scilicet gnofcens, extenfà impendere dex66 trậ [Deum. "Munera quæ dederit quifque benigna, "Haud alter, fuperimpofito cartone lique Lucidulo rio plumbea mafla fluit. [fcens, "Plumbea m.ffa, genus mutans, et victa calore, "Amiffis fcoriis, et fine labe, nitet. " Integer et mentis, purufque a crimine vixit "Tertius ille, puer cui modo raptus obit. "Quas vero ob caufas tanta infortunia luget Deponens tutis auribus, ecce, loquar. "Nam ferum accipiens munus, quod fæpe "petebat, "Acceptum nimio fovit amore pater. "Intereà fenfim cœpit languefcere virtus, "Nec toto manfit pectore prifca fides. "Nec puduit normam vitæ amififfe prioris, "Nec puduit nato pofthabuiffe DEUM. "Donec particulam divinæ protinus auræ "Fixit humi-quantum difcolor ipfe fibi? "Hei mihi, quam dire nimia indulgentia "patris "Caufa foret culpæ, ni morerere, puer ! "Nunc autem, ignaro vitiorum, et labe ca"rernæ vitæ janua læta patet. [renti "Nunc, felix anima, et noftris afcripta ca❝ tervis, "Ætherea fueris luce, videfque DEUM, "Interea mœsti circumstant corpus amici, "Et folita cedunt linquere morte diem. "Non illis licuit cœli vidiffe miniftrum, "Ut tibi permiffum eft cernere, care fenex! "Nec pater, ingenti quamvis mærore gravatus, "Immerito fefe plestier ipfe putat. "Hæc inter lachrymas—' Donum præcarius æquo [DEO. "Aufert, qui dederat : gloria fumma "Macte tuâ virtute, pater-fic itur ad aftra: "Gaudia fic animæ mox reditura tuæ. "Mox erit ille dies, cum tu quoque, raptus ad "Intrabis magni regna beata DEF. [auras "Mox erit, et lætâ clamabis voce, Paternos "Rurfus ad amplexus, eia age, nate, veni!" "Quæ tamen inftabant vicina pericula, noftræ "Dux modo vixiflit perfidus ifte viz! "Perfidus ifte, feris junctus latronibus, ultrò * Infonten dirâ cæde petiffet herum. "Jamque propinquabat tempus jam (nocte "fequenti) "Intraflet tectum fæda, cruenta manus, "Mactaffetquevirum, turpifque cupidine lucri "Pauperibus facras defpoliaffet opes. "Ettibi,carefenex,mors impendebat acerba-"Te voluit favi ducere ad antra gregis, "Ni comes adfueram: fed tu nunc tutus abibis, "Et necis artificem debita pœna rapit. "Sic mentem volu ƒ fatorum arcana docere "Omnipotens: felix vive,memo: que Dei" Dixit, et ad cœlum paribus fe fuftulit als Cernit abire fenex, intuituque ftupet. Haud aliter riparo Jordani ad flumims olim Saphathides illo itabat Elifha die, Cum curruregnum quærensíublime, propheta Ignipedes, plenus numine, rexit equos. Miratur famulus pompam afcendentis Ehjæ; Et gemit, exoptans se quoque ad aftra rapi. Talia Eremicolæ mentem portenta moveant; Terror ubi, at facro gaudia junéta metu. Tum, genibus flexis, "Toto" fic orat, in orte "Fiat, ut in cœlo, lex tua, Summe DEUS!" Dixit. Et antiquam fylvam contentus adibat: Vivere tranquillè ftat, placidèque amori. Nev. 25, 1793. G. Mr. TASKER'S IMPROMPTU. Addreffed to Mrs. ROBINSON, Array'd her deeds by the behest of Peace, ON antient Greece, in three fair forms The fev'ring vanities of life withstood, were feen, [queen. Wisdom's stern goddefs, and Love's fimiling Pallas prefided over arms and arts, And Venus reign'd o'er gentle virgin's hearts: But Taste and Beauty now in one combine, And in fam'd ROBINSON united fhine. STANZAS ON LIFE. LOWLY I trode the river's winding way, And, loft in melancholy, mufing stood, While o'er its banks the frolic zephyrs play, Or dimple the fmooth furface of the flood. And life, methought, to the lone murm'ring [below, Refemblance bore; for, checquer'd here 'Twas loft in darkness, or a tranfient gleam Of funfhine bade its wand'ring waves to flow. stream So glides the ftream of life, in mazes loft Till Death fhall dry the current of our But bleft is he, whofe bold, confiding breaft Maintains his courfe, tho' mertal ills moleft, Calm and ferene, o'er human wce he tow'rs, woes, Difpel each doubting cavil from thy breaft; Learn, tho' the ftream of Life in mis'ry flows, It gains the haven of Immortal Reft. AN EPITAPH for a Tomb now erecting to the Memory of Mrst Here Meri: fleeps, as all who triumph must! And own'd no greatness, unallied to good. Mr. URBAN, HE following Stanzas were not orīgi Tnally intended for the prefs; but as the lady, to whom they were addressed (though To ELIZABETH. I And feel once more her piercing eyes. My constant bofom can betray. Confpir'd with her heavenly face. 'Tis Fancy paints, and Love believes. How tenderly I love the maid; Which mortals guardian-fpirits name, Where dancing, melting, Love reclines, From outward eyes his rays withdraws, And Heav'n fhall open all her laws. In whom we move, and being have, Nor fear (tho' pleas'd with life) the grave. Thus finding favour in his fight, Sweet as herfelf, may come to light. For from our hearts we'll fay the fame, Welcome her foul-refining fmiles; BE BENEVOLENCE. Stanzas applicable to the Seafon. BENE ENEVOLENCE, meek Pity's darling child, [implore, Who gives that fuccour which the weak Cheers the afflicted, and with friendship mild Invites the trembling ftranger to her door; Calms the rough tempeft which the mind furveys, And bids the tear of rapture fill the eye; Like the bright fun, whole beam a thousand ways Difperfes night, and beautifies the sky. Yon aged object needs your gen'rous aid; His food is forrow, and his drink a tear! How like an angel doth his anguish plead! He fpeaks, and Pity liftens to his pray'r: "O come, and clafp my fhiv'ring limbs! "I'm cold![can I "Thefe wintry winds fo pierce me, fcarce My wants proclaim 1-I'm helpless, weary, « old, "And only fit to lay me down-and die!" Pity and kind Benevolence appearTruth guides their footsteps to the victim's fhed; [tearHufh'd is the figh-reprefs'd the trickling Sadness is joy! and wretchedness is filed! W. SYLE. Dec. 27. THE ROBIN RED BREAST. HA ARK at the little Robin's double note! Quits gloomy filence, and the bramble-wood. Th'embolden'd Robin, more familiar grown, boon." With boundless carpets of enliv’ning green, When flow'rs, eye-pleafing, rear their showy heads, An odoriferous fcent through æther spreads, Then does the Robin build in neighb'ring tree, And chearful breeds a helpless progeny. G SONNET à l' Imitation de celui de DESBAREAU. RAND Dieu! ta patience égale ta bonté, Et ta miféricorde excede ta juftice; Mais un peuple inhumain creufa le précipice Où doit s'anéantir fon courage indompté. Venge toi donc, Seigneur ! que ta févérité De l'incrédule Athée confonde la malice; Taloi n'eft, fuivant lui, qu'un tiffude caprice, Il doute en ce moment de ton autorité : "François féditieux ! le fang de vos victimes Sur le livre éternel a tracé tous vos crimes; Au jour du jugement vous les verrez écrits: Du Dieu, dont vous avez outragé la clémence, Vous ne pourez fléchir la trop jufte ven[Christ," geance; Pour le faire, il faudroit un fecond Jefas H. PETERSON. Great Berkhamstead, Herts, Dec. 31, 1793. MINUTES OF THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL CONVENTION OF FRANCE, continued from p. 1140. Aug. B ARRERE, in the name of the 29. Committee of Public Safety, caufed to be decreed: "That all the ci-devant officers of the troops of the line who thall refufe to wear the blue uniform, or who, after wearing it, fhall retain the diftinctive marks of the regiments to which they formerly belonged, fhall be cashiered. "That the falt usually supplied by France to Switzerland shall be excepted from the Decree, prohibiting the export of articles of confumption." Sept. 3. Ramel read the definitive plan of a decree for the Compulfory Loan of a thousand millions of livres. Several important additions have been made to this plan, of which the two following are the most effential: 1. The Compulfory Loan fhall be collected by the receivers of districts, instead of the Municipalities. II. The individuals fubjected to the Compulfory Loan, who, fhall not have acquitted it at the period of the rft of June next, fhall be compelled to pay without indemnification; namely, without obtaining receipts with which to purchafe national property. Saint André called the attention of the Convention to St. Domingo, which is in the most deplorable fituation. The magnificent city of Cape François is only a heap of ashes. It has been confumed by a mot terrible conflagration, which lafted from the 19th of June till the 220. All the whites have been maffacred, and all the merchant-fhips which were in the road have gone to take refuge in the United States of America. Polverel and Santhosax, who had been sent to St. Domingo to maintain order and peace, have ruined every thing: it appears that they wished to make themfelves masters of the colony, and then to give it up to the Englith. These two vilains partly fucceeded. I demand that the Minifter at War give an account of the proceedings and measures taken for be execution of the decrees. Sept. 5. Chaumette delivered a report from the Committee, on the diftreffes of the people, and the manœuvres of the monopolifts Your fate," he exclaimed, our fate, and that of the people, attaches us to the Republic-car enemies must be destroyed-give to the people the means of fubfiftence-appoint a Revolutionary army, and let it be attended by an extraordinary tribunal-put the gardens of Paris in a ftate of cultivation. St. André moved that these propofitions fhould be taken into confideration.“ Danton wifhed them to be decreed as a general principle, and to be sent to the ComGENT. MAG. Supplement, 1793. mittee of Public Safety, in order that a law might be framed on the fubject. He alfo proposed that 40 fous a day thould be allowed to thofe poor citizens who should afford their affiftance to the affemblies of the fections, and that one hundred millions fhould be at the difpofal of the Minifter at War for the fabrication of guns. A Deputation from the Jacobin Club demanded that all the ci-devant nobles, who poffeffed military functions, should be difcharged, and that judgement should be speedily pronounced on Brufet. For foveral days, exclaimed Barrere, the reports we have received, and the letters that have been intercepted, inform us of fome important operations in Paris on the part of the Royalifts. They will be opposed by a revolutionary army well organized, and by the whole mafs of the people. Thefe confpirators thirst for blood. They may, perhaps, foon gratify their wishes by the blood of Marie Antoinette and Briffot. From the depth of their dungeons, traitors ftill confpire against public liberty. Briffot, in his chains, has afferted, that, before his head fhall fall upon the fcaffold, the National Convention will find it neceffary to condemn to death feveral of its members. A revolutionary ariny must be put in motion, to difperfe this horde of confpirators! The power of the Revolutionary Tribunal moft not be checked in its operations, and all the military men must be fent from Paris. Barrere concluded his fpeech by propofing the following decree, wich was adopted: "That there fhall be at Paris, during the whole period of the Revolution, an armed force of 6c00 men, and a corps of artillery confifting of 1200 men, who fhall watch over the execution of the revolutionary laws, fupport the measures of public fafety, and the fafe convoy of provifions. Their pay fhall be the fame as that of the National Gendarmarie. "That every officer, fufpended or difmiffed from his functions, fhall leave Paris in twenty-four hours, and betake himfelt to his Municipality, under the penalty of twelve years imprisonment in chains The citizens forming the Gardes du Corps, formerly the Gardes du Roi, are comprifed in this decree. No military man thali come to Paris without an order from the Minister at War. The wounded are excepted from this prohibition." Sept 6. The mmiffion of Six prefented the articles of the law concerning foreigners. The Convention decreed: 1. That all foreigners, born in the countries with which the Republic is at war, fhall be put under an aireft, and feals be fixed to their papers. II. Al II. All artifts and artizans, who can produce atteftations of their patriotifm, and all those who fince their refidence in France have given proofs of it, fhall be excepted. III. Thofe who have not been able to obtain a certificate of hofpitality fhall receive a paffport, in which the route they fall follow is traced out to them. If they return to France, they fhall be punished with death. Those who fhall harbour foreigners fhall fuffer the fame punishment as for emigrants, viz. death. The following decree, was paffed unanimoufly, and loudly applauded: J. All Public Functionaries, Agents of the Nation, Army Contractors, Receivers, Collectors, Adminiftrators, and other public men, fhall be bound to give an account of their fortunes before and fiice 1791. II. Thofe, who shall not give a fatisfactory account of the additions made to their, fortune fince 1789, and the means by which they were made, fhall make reftitution of the excess. III. This excefs fhall be paid into the Public Treafury. IV. The Committee of Legislation fhall prefent a plan for putting this decree into execution. Sept. 7. Dufourni, at the head of the Administrators of the Department of Paris, was admitted to the bar. He demanded, that the decree, which fequeftrates the property of the Emigrants, fhould be extended to all foreigners, and particularly to the inhabitants of Great Britain in France. Merlin, of Douay, expreffed his fears, that the English would wish for nothing more than that fuch a law fhould pafs, as they would gain more by it than France. Gafton faid, that he entertained no fuch apprehenfion. There were no Frenchmen, except thofe who, from hatred of liberty, had placed their property in England, who would fuffer by a fequeftration in that country, and the ruin of those ariftocrats was not to be regretted. They were not the French Sans Culottes who had remitted their pro perty to an enemy's country; and we, faid he, have large confifcations to make of funds, which, if fpared, would be applied to aid the views of the combined Monarchs. Several Members wished to make exceptions in favour of the English who had taken refuge in France. "Do not deceive yourfelves," replied Danton: "English policy is deceitful. The flects of England fly before ours; it is with gold that its Government obtains poffeffion of ours; it is with gold that it fows divifions in the Republic. They have given brevets of exclufion to the agents whom they have among us. Thefe agents, our pretended friends, and victims of what they call Libelty, deceive us fo much the more eafily as their brevets are fuppofed to be genuine. It is by their means that the English gold circulates amongst us, debauches our Adminiftrators, and our public fpirit. I make the express motion, that the law against the property of foreigners be extended to all foreigners, fubjects of the Powers with whom we are at war." Adopted. The following decree paffed, upon the motion of Fabre d'Eglantine. "Every Frenchman is prohibited from receiving any right of fervitude, in whatever part of the world he be." On the motion of Merlin, of Douay, the Convention confifcated all the property of thofe French who, fince the furrender of Valenciennes and Condé, have had the bafenefs to accept places or employments in the Imperial administration of these cities. The Convention, being informed that in different armies of the Republic there were diftributed allowances of provifions to waggoners, and several other citizens who followed in the train, to whom none were due, in order to remedy fuch abuses, decrees: Art. 1. From the publication of the prefent decree, all, who furnish and are entrusted with the care of provifions, are prohibited to deliver out any allowance of provifions to waggoners, and perfons employed in the fervice of the moving hofpitals, of the artillery, carriages, and military convoys, and | to all others who fhall not be authorised to receive them, either by a decree, or by a regulation not annulled. II. The different Contractors and Adminiftrators to the Superintendants, by whom the allowance of provifions fhall have been furnished, thall be bound to give an account of them to the Republic, at the rate of the price they pay. III. The Commiffioners, Comptrollers, or others, charged with infpecting the receipts of those who furnish provifions, Thall be bound to form feparate and diftinct statemen's, to facilitate their recovery. IV. The adminiftration of military fubfiftence shall be bound to collect, within as fhort a fpace as poffible, at the latest fix weeks, all the receipts for provifions, which fhall have been delivered out to perfons defcribed in Art. I. It fhall form ftatements of them, in order to be fent to the National Treasury, which shall exercise its difcretion with respect to them, according to the price which the Minifter fhall fix. V. Thofe who furnish provifions and ammunition are equally bound, within the fame fpace, to tranfmit to the Minifter, the receipts of the fupplies which they shall have provided, in order that the National Treatury may exercife its difcretion with respect to the different contractors and others. Sept. 10. Duhem announced that a colomo of the Republican army had penetrated to Ypres-" Behold, we are again in the Belgic Provinces," he exclaimed; "bet we have not yet established ourselves in the poffeffion |