Montgomery, reftored from the grafp of death, recovered his recollection, and knew me and his boy; and as the furgeons could not convenienty attend him where he was, my generous friend had him removed, as foon as it was poffible, into Minden, now in po feilion of the English. There, at the end of a month, he was out of danger; but yet confined to his bed and there, at the terination of that period, he parted from his noble preferver (for whom he felt all the friendship his generolity and perfonal merit deferved), as he was then ordered to another part of Germany, and foon after returned to England. Before he went, he affifted Montgomery to procure his exchange; which was attended with fome difficulty, because there were doubts of his being a British fubject. Having however, by the inftruction of this excellent friend, procured fufficient teftimony of his being, though the fon of Scottiin parents, a fubject of the French King, his exchange as fuch was admitted, and at the end of five months we returned to Paris. But Montgomery returned a cripple; for his arm, which had been with difficulty, and only by the extraordinary skill of the English surgeon, saved from amputation, was rendered wholly ufelefs, and he wore it always in a ling. The ext. aordinary circumitance of his escape from death, as well as his great military merit, procured him the notice of the King of France; who gave him, with a pension confiderable at that time and in that service, the crofs of St Louis." Poetry. THE COMPLAINT OF SCOTLAND. A DEW all glaidnes, fport, and play, Allace to graif is gone my deir. My lothfoum lyfe I may lanient, Of thame hes brocht to graif my deir. ¶ Bot long allace I may complaine, Sen nathing may my nurming mend, My hauie hap, and piteous plycht, Mycht thow not, frantik fule! forbear And cruellie deuoir my deir. Wa worth the wretche, wa worth the clan, Wa worth the wit, that first began, Throw the now lawles libertie, Throw the to graif is gone my deir. Throw the mae Kingz than ane doisring, Throw the is rafit furtfum ftryfe, Suld ftranglit the, and faift my deir. Ungraitfull grome, fic recompence This cureles wound does greif me foir, From doggis deith was thy defence: The lyke I neuer felt befoir, O wickit wretche unfortunat, fauage feid infatiat, To the fic mercie schew my dear. O bludie bairn of Ishmaell, Throw cruel murther of my deir. fuppofed to have been printed at Edinburgh • Transcribed from a black letter fheet, Allace Allace my deir did not forfie, Quhen he gaif pardone vnto the, Maift wickit wretche, to mien finceir Quhat paine he brocht, and miferie, With reuthfull ruin to my deir." Bot trew it is, the godly men, Quhilk think no harme, nor falfet ken, Nor haitret dois to vtherz beit, Ar foneft brocht to deithis'den; As may be fene be this my deir. Thairfoir to the I fay no moir, Bot I traift to the King of Gloir, That thow and thyme fall zit reteir Zour campz with murning mynd richt foir, For cruell murther of my deir. O nobill Lordis of renoun, Reuenge his deith with ane affent, my deir. Be crous ze Commouns, in this cacè, Lat all that fifche be trapt in net, Quhen he to graif did bring my deir. Defend zour King, and feir zour God. And do not feir the number fmall, Gif ze with fpeid reuenge my deir. Remuve all fluggische flewth away, With fobbing fych I to zow fend Sen now to graif is gone my deir. Author of the Poftfcript to the New Bath Guide. THE THE FISHERMAN AND CYNIC, A TALE. By the Same. (Inferibed to the MISANTHROPI.) ELICITY by all is fought; By fome commanded, others bought; Tho' Happiness to mortal view Changes like the Cameleon's hue. A Cynic, whofe contracted breast Ne'er gave admiffion to a jeft, Forfook, one morn, his calm ahode, To mufe and murmur as he rode; Reading upon his mental pages The dogmas of fucceeding fages, Yet none could fatisfy his mind, But Heaven had been to man unkind; Tho' Phoebus proudly blaz'd before him, His beams to peace could not restore him, After he'd pent the genial day In finking, to himself a prey, To increase a ftranger's treasures, O'er the raging billows born. Men from Europe bought and fold mes Paid my price in paltry gold; But tho' their's they have inroll'd me, Minds are never to be fold. Still in thought as free as ever, What are Furope's rights, I afk, Fleecy locks, and black complexion, Make the plant for which we toil? Sighs must fan it, tears must water, Sweat of ours must drefs the foil. And raising bulwarks 'gainst Content's affift. Think, you Mafters iron-hearted, ance, He faw an Angler at a distance, While he was putting up his rod, And finging merrily to glad his God: As he apparent breath'd without annoy, The Cynic fpurr'd his fteed to mend his pace, And, curious, hurried to the place, To find the origin of fo much joy. The furly feer accofted thus the fwain: Tell me, thou jocund tyrant to the fishes, Has your fuccefs been equal to your wishes? So, fo, replied the clown, and fung again, So, fo, is inconclufive; fpeak downright; You trifle with me; you're difpos'd to quibble. Why then, faid t'other, tho' I've got no bite, Te had a glorious nibble. Sitting at your jovial boards; Think how many Blacks have fmarted For the sweets your cane affords. Is there, as you 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 icrews, Are the means that duty urges, Agents for his will to ufe? Hark! he anfwers: Wild Tornados, Strewing yonder fea with wrecks, Wafting towns, plantations, meadowe Is the voice with which he fpeaks. He forefeeing what vexations Afric's fons fhould undergo, Fix'd thefe Tyrants habitations, Where his whirlwinds anfwer, Ne. By our blood in Afric wafed, L'er our necks receiv'd the chain, By our fufferings, fince ye bought us THE Monthly Regiter FOR DECEMBER 1791. 513 FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. AMERICA. The Prefident's Addrefs to both Houfes of the Federal Legislature, delivered in the Senate Chamber, on the opening of Congrefs: Fellow-citizens of the Senate, and the Houfe of Reprefentatives, I MEET you, upon the prefent occafion, with the feelings which are naturally infpired by a strong impreffion of the profperous fituation of our common country, and by a perfuafion equally ftrong that the labours of the feffion which has just commenced, will, under the guidance of a spirit no lefs prudent than patriotic, iffue in measures conducive to the ftability and increase of national profperity. Numerous as are the providential bleffings which demand our grateful acknowledgments, the abundance with which another year has again rewarded the industry of the husbandm n is too important to escape re collection. Your own obfervations in your respective fituations will have fatisfied you of the progreffive ftate of agriculture, manufactures, commerce, and navigation. In tracing their caufes, you will have remarked with particular pleasure, the happy effects of that revival of confidence, public as well as private, to which the conftitution and laws of the United States have fo eminently contributed; and you will have obferved, with no lefs intereft, new and decifive proofs of the increafing reputation and credit of the nation. But you, nevertheless, cannot fail to derive fatisfaction from the confirmation of these circumftances, which will be difclofed in the feveral official communications that will be made to you in course of your deliberations. The rapid fubfcriptions to the Bank of the United States, which completed the fum allowed to be fubfcribed in a fingle day, is among the striking and pleafing evidences which prefent themselves, not only of confidence in the government, but of refource in the community. 3 T VOL. XIV. No. 84. Among the most important of thefe is the defence and fecurity of the Western Frontiers. To accomplish it on the most humane principles, was a primary with. Accordingly, at the fame time that treaties have been provisionally concluded, and other proper means used to attach the wavering, and to confirm in their friendhip the well-difpofed tribes of India-effectual measures have been adopted to make those of a hoftile defcription fenfible, that a pacification was defired upon terms of moderation and justice. These measures having proved unsuccessful, it became neceffary to convince the refractory of the power of the United States to punish their depredations: offenfive operations have therefore been directed-to be conducted, however, as confiftently as poffible with the dictates of humanity. Some of thefe have been crowned with full fuccefs, and others are yet depending. The expeditions which have been completed were carried on under the authority and at the expence of the United States, by the militia of Kentucky, whofe enterprife, intrepidity and good conduct, are entitled to peculiar commendation. Overtures of peace are still continued to the deluded tribes, and confiderable numbers of individuals belonging to them have lately renounced all further oppofition, removed from their former fituations, and placed themselves under the immediate protection of the United States. It is fincerely to be defired, that all need of coercion in future may ceafe, and that an intimate intercourfe may fucceed, calculated to advance the happiness of the Indians, and to attach them firmly to the United States. In order to this, it feems neceffaryThat they fhould experience the benefits of an impartial difpenfation of juftice. That the mode of alienating their lands, the main main fource of difcontent and war, fhould be fo defined and regulated as to obviate impofition, and, as far as may be practicable, controverfy concerning the reality and extent of the alienations which are made. That commerce with them fhould be promoted under regulations tending to fe cure an equitable deportment towards them, and that fuch rational experiments fhould be made for imparting to them the bleflings of civilization as may from time to time fuit their condition. That the Executive Power of the United States fhould be enabled to employ the means to which the Indians have been long accustomed, for uniting their immediate interefts with the prefervation of peace-And That efficacious provifion fhould be made for inflicting adequate penalties upon all thofe who, by violating their rights, fhall infringe the treaties, and endanger the peace of the Union. A fyftem correfponding with the mild principles of religion and philanthropy towards an unenlightened race of men, whofe happiness materially depends on the conduct of the United States, would be as honourable to the national character, as conformable to the dictates of found policy. The powers fpecially vefted in me by the act laying certain duties on diftilled spirits, which refpect the fub-divifions of the diftricts into furveys, the appointment of officers, and the affignment of compenfations, have likewife been carried into effect.-In a manner in which both materials and experience were wanting to guide the circulation, it will be readily conceived that there must have been difficulty in fuch an adjustment of the rates of compenfation as would conciliate a reasonable competency with a proper regard to the limits preferihed by the law. It is hoped that the circumfpection which has been used will be found in the refult to have fecured the laft of the two objects; but it is probable, that with a view to rhe firft, in fome inftances a revifion of the provifion will be found advifeable. The impreffions with which this law has been received by the community have been, upon the whole, fuch as were to be expected among enlightened and well-difpofed citizens, from the propriety and neceffity of the measure. The novelty, however, of the tax, in a confiderable pait of the United States, and a mifconception of fome of its provifions, have given occafion, in particular places, to fome degree of difcontent. But it is fatisfactory to know, that this dif pofition yields to proper explanations and more apprehenfions of the true nature of the law. And I entertain a full confidence that it will, in all, give way to motive. which arife out of a juft fenfe of duty, and a virtuous regard to the public welfare. If there are any circumftances in the law, which, confiftently with its main defign, may be fo varied as to remove any well-intentioned objections that may happen to exift, it will confift with a wife moderation to make the pr per variations. It is defirable, on all ccafions, to unite, with a fteady and firm adherence to constitutional and neceffary as of government, the fullest evidence of a difpofition, as far as may be practicable, to confult the wishes of every part of the community, and to lay the foundations of the public administration in the affections of the people. Pursuant to the authority contained in the feveral acts on that fubject, a district of ten miles fquare, for the permanent feat of the government of the United States, has been fixed, and announced by proclamation; which diftrict will comprehend lands on both fides of the river Potowmac, and the towns of Alexandria and Georgetown. A city has alfo been laid out, agreeably to a plan which will be placed before Congrefs; and as there is a profpect, favoured by the rate of fales which have already taken place, of ample funds for carrying on the neceffary buildings, there is every expectation of their due progress. The completion of the cenfus of the inhabitants, for which provifion was made by law, has been duly notified (excepting in one inftance), in which the return has been informal; and another, in which it has been omitted or mifcarried; and the returns of the officers who were charged with this duty, which will be laid before you, will give you the pleafing affurance, that the prefent population of the United States borders on four millions of perfons. It is proper alfo to inform you, that a further loan of two millions and a half of florins has been completed in Holland, the returns of which are fimilar to thofe of the one last announced, except as to a small reduction of charges: Another, on like terms, for fix millions of florins, had been fet on foot, under circumftances that affured immediate completion. Gentlemen of the Senate, Two treaties which have been provifionally concluded with the Cherokees, and fix nations of Indians, will be laid before you for your confideration and ratification. Gentlemen of the House of Reprefentatives, In entering upon the discharge of your legislative truft, you must anticipate with pleafure, that many of the difficulties neceffarily incident to the firft arrangement of a new government for an extenfive country have been happily furmounted by the zealous and judicious exertions of your prede ceffors |