" deftruction? This defign was laid too ર deep to be the first trial of your fkill, 'tis "not unlikely that many others may have « perished by fuch like contrivances. It is "my duty to free the city from fo danger"ous a plague. As for Hou the Tyger, "that unnatural flave, who forgetting the "benefits he received from his master, has * contrived his deftruction, he deferves to "be feverely punifhed." At the fame time, he ordered the executioners to take the two villains, and laying them on the ground, to give Hou the Tyger forty blows with the battoon, and to baftinade Tcheou-fe till he expired under the blows. They did not know that Hou the Tyger had just got over a dangerous difcafe, and confequently was not in a condition to undergo the punifhfent; but the justice of heaven would no longer fufter this treacherous flave, for he expired on the pavement before he had reseived his number of blows; Tcheou-fe did not die till he had received 70. where they careffed the good old man who had taken fo much pains to difprove the ca lummy, and fhewed him all the kindnefs that could be expected from the fincerest gratitude. From this time forward Ouang learnt to moderate the heat of his temper, and to reftrain his natural impetuoûty. If he met a poor man who afked an alms, or defired any fervice, he received him with an air of affability, and thewed his readiness to affift him; in fhort, he came to a refolution to labour in good earnest to attain his degrees, and to obliterate the remembrance of this fatal accident; he applied himself constantly to his books, had little commerce with the world, and lived in this manner for the fpace of ten years, after which he was raifed to the degree of doctor. There is a great deal of reafon to fay, that magiftrates and officers of justice are obliged to regard the life of a man more than a contemptible plant, and that they are highly culpable This done, the Mandarin fent for Ouang when they are as carelefs in examining a out of prifon, and in full audience declared procefs, as if they afiifted at the difputes of him innocent; befides, he ordered all the a compatry of children that are at play. Nocloth that was in Tcheon-fe's fhop, and had thing ought to be done precipitately; as been bought with Quang's money, to be for example, in the caufe of Ouang, the delivered to him; the whole stock amount- main point was to penetrate into the fetches ed to about a hundred taels, "According and artifices of the waterman; if the dealto the course of juftice, (faid the Man-er in ginger had not happily arrived at darin) this ought to he confifcated, but "as Ouang is a fcholar that has greatly fuffered, I compaffionate the miferable con"dition to which he has been reduced; let "every thing that is found at the thief's "houfe be returned to him that it was extorted from." This was an act of goodnefs in the Mandarin. They went, according to order, and took up the dead body, in which they obferved that his nails were fill full of fand, which was a proof that he fell into the river off the bank and was drowned, endeavouring to get up it again: as none of his relations laid claim to him, the Mandarin ordered the officers to lay him in the common burying place of the poor. Quang and his wife, together with oid Lin, after returning their humble thanks to the Mandarin, returned to their houfe, Quen-tcheou, and if thro' too much preci pitation they had not waited for his arrival, the flave who had accufed his mafter would not have thought he had flandered him; the wife would not have imagined her hufband had been innocent of the murder, and the accused person himself, would not have known he had been unjustly oppreffed much lefs could the judge have had the leaft knowledge of the matter, for it was impoffible for him to penetrate into things concealed with fo great care. Let benevolent magistrates, as they ought, have the fame compaffion for the people, as the father has of his children, and they may learn from this flory both in what manner they ought to conduct themselves, and what faults they fhould avoid. POETRY. Ah! tell me, tell me, why, ROBINSON. Or on the filmy vapours glide Sweet Songftrefs-if thy wayward fate Hath robb d Thee of thy bofom's mate, Oh, think not thy heart-piercing moau Evap rates on the breezy air; Or that the plaintive fong of Care Till forc'd with every Hope to part, Oh then, far o'er the reftlefs deep Forlorn my poignant pangs i bore, Alone in foreign realms to weep, Where Envy's voice could taunt more. Bleft folace of my lonely hours, In craggy caves and filent bow'rs, By night's pale lamp we ll chaunt our woes, And, as her chilling tears diffuse A weeping Wreath, which round my Shall by the waning Crescent shine, And light us to our leafy bed.- STANZAS-By the fame. no WHEN fragrant gales and fummer I hop'd, by mingling with the gay, For e'en where rapt'rous transports glow, From the full Heart the conscious tear will flow, When to my downy couch remov'd, Fancy recall'd my wearied mind To fcenes of Friendthip left behind, Scenes ftill regretted, fill belov'd! Ah, then I felt the pangs of Grief, Grafp my warm Ileart, and mock relief; My burning lids Sleep's balm defied, And on my fev'rifh lip imperfect murmurs died. Reflefs and fad-I fought once more Deceitful Hope, e'en there I found name Was but a fhort-liv'd 'empty found, Then come sweet Bird, and with thy. ftrain, Steal from my breaft the chorn of pan; show'rs; Call'd forth the (weetly-fcented flow'rs: When ripen'd theaves of golden grain, Strew'd their rich treasures o'er the plain; When the full grape did nectar yield, I tepid drops of purple hue; When the thick grove, and thirty field," Drank the foft fhow'r and bloom'd a new; O then my joyful heart did fay, But when the yellow leaf did fade, Swept with fude force the naked plain; When o'er the defolated fcene I faw the drifted fnow defcend; And fadness darken'd all the green, And Nature's triumphs feem'd to end; O! then, my mourning heart did fay, "Thus Youth fhall vanifi, Life decay." When Beauty blooms, and Fortune fmiles, And wealth the eafy breast beguiles; The brightest flames of paffion move, Not yet difdeigne the ruffet ftoale. Forgive him, if, at evc or dawne, Fulgure pernicior greffibus inftat a From, whych thefe peacefull glennes are free. Eadem Verfibus lambicis Latinè red. dita. Vos qui fuperbis cœtibus verfamini, Queis turba grata eft aulica, Queis blande ridet fors amica, pauperis Ne temnite incolam cafæ. Nec qua amicitur fimplices artus togam Nec faginum ridete poculum, fitim Si vefpere avio terat faltus pede, Atqui tibi ignofcat incola pauper cafe A CHILD TO HIS SICK GRAND-FATHER, GRA RAND-DAD they fay you're old and I'm vex'd to fee you, dad. How lank and thin your beard henes down i The The housewives round their potions brew, When you are ailing, dad. You will not die, and leave us then? To fill old dad his cheer. When thro' the house you shift your stand, I have a tale both long and good, And then I have a wond'rous tale. tow When the mifguiding tranfports fick'ning It taught her refignation to the blow, Her artless lay in magic numbers ftole," Kindling each breast with sympathetic There, melting ev'ry feeling of the foul, Nor harthly cenfure, ye, whofe happier fate Kind chance befriends, or froic virtue fhields; Benevolence, with active joy clate, To mifery her tend'reft influence yields. What though I saw her when the modest fhade Of untried honour veil'd her youthful brow The ripen'd peach by ev'ry breeze be tray'd, Falls the devoted victim of her glow. Here reft her forrows in eternal fleep, Her failings warn the follies of the age; If mark'd in Fate's dread book with traces deep, May fome "recording Angel" blot the page! ATHOLIN THE Monthly Register FOR SEPTEMBER 1791. FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. EAST INDIA AFFAIRS. Whitehall, Sept. 6. THE letters from the Eaft Indies, of which the following are copies and extracts, were received on Sunday laft by the Hawke, one of the Company's -Chips: Extract of a letter from the Prefident and Council at Fort St George, in their political department, to the Court of Di rectors, dated April 14. 1791. OUR laft communication refpecting the grand army advised your Honourable Court, that Lord Cornwallis had advanced as far as Vellore, and that he hoped to reach Bangalore on the 5th or 6th of March. In purfuance of this intention the army moved, with all poffible expedition, towards the Moglee Pats, and encamped on the table land of Myfore on the ft of February, without any material difficulty, or the leaft interference on the part of the enemy. Tippoo, in the mean time, remained near Gingee, apparently waiting the motions of Lord Cornwallis; but he no fooner difcovered their object, than he relinquifhed all hope of carrying on the war in the Carnatic, and haftened through the Changamah, pafs, for the prefervation of his own dominions. After halting two days, for the purpofe of muftering the bullocks, &c. Lord Cornwallis marched forward in the dis rection of Bangalore. The forts of Molwaggle, Colar, and Qufcottah, fucceffively fell on the approach of our army. Forage and water were found in ahundance on the line of march; and fuck was the confidence of the inhabitants, that they voluntarily fupplied the camp with every article of provifion. In the morning of the 5th of March the enemy appeared, for the fif time, in force, a few miles on the left flant of the army. Farties of horfe approached very near the line, and fome guns were opened upon its rear, but at so confiderable a distance that they neither retarded the progress nor did any material injury to the troops. Lord Cornwallis encamped within fight of Bangalore in the evening of the th, and on the 7th in the morning the Pettah was carried by affault. It was & fortunate circumftance that a confider able quantity of dry forage was found in it, as Tippoo had defroyed all the vil lages around the fort, and the barren face of the country afforded an alarming profpect for the fupport of our cattle. The fuccefsful attack which had been made on the Petrah, and the happy confequences attending it, gave us the greateft fatisfaction; but at the fame time we fincerely lament the lofs fuftained on that occafion, by the death of Lieutenant Colonel Moorhouse, whefe military citas" racter was fo much diftinguished, and whole long, active, and zealous fervices to the Company deferved the highest applaufe. In order to teftify our fenfe of fuch confpicuous merits, we came to the fole towing refolution, viż. "Government having received advice of the death of Lieutenant Colonel Moorhoofe, who was killed in the affault of the Pettah of Bangalore the 7th inflant:-Refolved, as a teftimony of respect to the memory of an officer who feed the Company many years with diftinguifhed zeal, ipirit, and ability, that his remains be with the permiffion of the minifters and church wardens, publicly interred in the church of Fort St George, at the Com pany's expence, and a marble table: fixed over his grave, with a fuitable inferip tion, in commemoration of his merits: -Refolved, likewife, That a letter be written to Earl Cornwallis to inform him |