For furely the mis'ry to all would be great, Were they ty'd for their lives to a perfon they hate. But love, real love, ev'ry ftrife can reftrain, [pain. Enliven the heart, and remove ev'ry 'Twill make you partake of ineffable blifs, [kifs. Whene'er you receive the foft conjugal Now, lovely Myrtilla, my fenfible friend, I hope you'll regard the few lines I have penn'd; May Heav'n propitious your conduct approve, And give for a husband the perfon you love. To Mifs T. LEY BOURN. of WANDSWORTH, On the NEW YEAR. THO' years pafs on, the flealing time Difpenfes general doom, Unfaded, lovely, still in prime, Her charms fhall ever bloom. The beauteous blushing, damask rose, Her virtues, like the opening flow'rs, Succeffive fweets shall spring. May peace and health await my love, To Mifs SAR—5. J. H. When with licentious boldness fir'd, Ah, fly not, cruel as thou art; Ah, leave not thus my mangl'd heart; Give one kifs more, and kill me quite. Proclaims approaching death, What all things do, That in this world draw breath. When you a right these things attain, Join them but true, and there'll appear, What's oft produc'd in times of fear. W. B. R FO Vienna, Nov. 20. WE learn from Prague, that an inflammatory and contagious diforder reigns amongst the Jews of that city, the effect of which is fo fatal that the patient generally dies within 24 hours after being taken ill. A great number of Jews have fallen victims to it already, and government, to hinder it from reaching the other quarters of the city, has prohibited any kind of communication with the quarter of the Jews. 29. The complaint of the emprefs becomes ferious: many unfavourable fymptoms give reafon to fear a confumption. By authentic advices we learn, that at the beginning of the month the grand vizir had barely 48,000 men under his command, more than 60,000 Afiatics having deferted; and, notwithstanding the threats and promises of their officers, the desertion continues. Dec. 3. According to letters from Conftantinople, the people of that capital, we know not by what means, have been informed of the French revolution. They are no longer fatisfied with their prefent government; they affemble in crouds, talk loud, and make comparifons which are neceffarily to the difadvantage of abfolute defpotifm. The government has caufed fevere ordonnances to be published againft all who, by fpeaking or acting, shall disturb the public peace. An attempt was made to arrest a Muffulman, bold enough to have faid to the people affembled around him, "We fhall be always more and more unhappy, if we leave to the fultan any power but the power of doing good, and if we prefent our heads to his caprices and thofe of his minifters." The fpies of government, with whom the city warms, having informed againft him, the orator was feized by the guard; on which, addreffing himself to his auditors, he cried with a loud voice, "Ah, furely Frenchmen would not have fuffered a citizen to be thus unjustly car ried off from the midst of them!" The exclamation produced its effect. VOL, XXII. NEWS. The people compelled the guard to releafe the prifoner, conducted him in triumph to his house, and fixed over his door the following infcription: "This houfe is under the protection of the people." This fcene was acted on the 5th of November, and when the above account came away the infeription fill remained over the door of the patriotic Muffulman, without government's having thought proper to inftitute any inquiry refpecting the author. Extraordinary meetings of the divan were daily held, and the refolution to be taken in fuch critical circumftances was anxiously expected. Dec. 8. The emperor has re-eftablifhed the flates of the Milanefe in the poffeffion of all the rights and privileges of which they had been divested during the late reign. Leyden, Dec. 9. The wifdom which has hitherto characterifed every ftep taken by the emperor Leopold, was a fure prefage to us that, although he looked upon his authority as re-established in the Netherlands by right of conqueft, he would not take any odious advantage which that right might give him, and in this we are fully confirmed by the letter written to the field-marfhal Bender by the count Mercy d'Argenteau, the emperor's minifter at the Hague, in which he highly approves, in the name of his fovereign, of the mild measures purfued by that general, and affures them that his majesty's greatest pleasure will be to bellow on his provinces of the Netherlands every thing that can make them flourishing and happy, and in all refpects to do away every idea of conqueft, the unhappy rights of which his majefty would on no account, even in imagination, exercife towards any of his fubjects. Hague, Dec. 10. The count Mercy d'Argenteau received a letter yefterday from general Bender, dated from Bruffels, mentioning that the Imperial troops had taken poffeffion of the city and caftle of Antwerp, together with the provinces of Eaft and Weft Flanders, Tournay, and Tournefis, and that the H city city of Ruremonde, for Auftrian Guelderland, had fent deputies to declare their fubmiffion; that, in fhort, the war was at an end, and that not a fhadow of that difcontent and hatred, which of late were fo prevalent, was now to be perceived, and which foon muft have turned one of the fineft countries in the world into a defert. All accouuts from the Netherlands fpeak in the higheft terms of the ftrict difcipline and good order obferved by the Auftrian troops. Louvain, Dec. 12. The Imperial troops, to the number of 4000 cavalry and 8000 infantry, with a train of 50 cannons, and about 1500 baggage and ammunition waggons, arrived here the zd inftant, fince which we have been perfectly quiet, and the fame tranquillity reigns in all the other cities which the Auftrian army has taken poffeffion of. The only rencontre, during this revolution, in which there was any blood shed (that at Namur excepted, in which a few Imperial foldiers were killed and wounded by the difcharge of fome artillery from that place), happened on the ft inft. at night, about a league and a half distance from this place, where 700 volunteers, most of them young peafants and citizens, rafhly attacked the Auftrian column which was marching to Louvain, and unfortunately killed five of them; the confequence was, that the Aurians fell upon these foolhardy youths, few of whom escaped, as thofe who fled were moftly drowned in paffing the river. Paris, Dec. 18. A matter of great importance was laid before the National Affembly, the difcovery of a plan to effect a counter-revolution. M. Mirabeau read two letters from the magiftrates of Lyons, in which the particulars are ftated at great length; but the refult is, fhortly, that a club in that city, compofed of the nobles and the clergy, have employed every art to make converts to their caufe. The body of the people, however, it appears, refifted fuch vile machinations; and the | confequence has been, that two violent partizans of defpotifm and ariftocracy have fallen victims to the fury and enthufiafm of an ungovernable people. They were first imprisoned, and afterwards taken from thence by the people, and dermed to the lanterne, Y The Affembly came to no fin lution upon this fubject; but M Fayette and M. Barnave, and ot moft decided friends to the new tution, concurred in opinion tha cree fhould be paffed to oblige the of the blood, and all abfentees of to take the civic oath, under p being deprived of the pensions of kind they at present receive fro bounty of the nation. Vienna, Dec. 18. The courie arrived yefterday has brought a r of the advances made by the R light fquadron at the mouth o Danube. The 24th of November a divifi this fquadron attempted an ente againft Ifaizi, and, notwithstandin rapidity of the torrent, approache fortress. The enemies fire commenced at o'clock, and was well fultained Ruffians, nevertheless, advanced in order, and did not return it till were within a small diftance of Turkish guns. This procedure dec the bufinefs; the battle was ende two in the afternoon, and the Ruf gained a complete victory. There are twenty-one of the ene lanfons burnt or funk, and the rem der of their flotilla fell into the h of the victors. The Turks fled after abando their veffels, their batteries on the ba and even the town; which the Ruf immediately took poffeffion of. As the town of Ifaizi was the m zine of the whole Turkish army judgment may be formed of the qua ty of provifions and ammunition of fpecies, which the conquerors found th Befides the artillery of the vel they took thirty-three pieces of ordnance, and a mortar of 480 pou which was on the rampart; and flags, among which was that of Serafkier. St. Maloe's, Dec. 25. On Th day morning, about four o'clock, had a moft terrible hurricane, atten with the moft tremendous thunder lightning ever known, which lafted wards of an hour and a half. To capitulate all the damage is next to poffible. At Dinant, Dole, and St. Fr cis, houfes have been thrown do and fome perfons killed by their falli 7 HOME We were greatly apprehenfive here for Paris, Jan. 3. The decree of the Hague, Jan. 5. On the last day of the late year there was a fog at Amfterdam fo extremely dense, that the people could not see their way along the Atreets and avenues of the city, and perfons ran against each other even though they had lights in their hands. The accidents it has occafioned are very numerous, but the most dreadful is the number of people who have perished from falling into the canals, where they were drowned or fuffocated in the mud before any affiftance could be given them, though the cries of their diftrefs were diftinctly heard. Strange as it may appear here, they reckon the number of perfons, who are known to have been loft in this way, to amount already to 230. Warfaw, Jan. 6. The preliminaries which occupied the attention of the double diet being nearly fettled, they deliberated upon what fubject they fhould begin, when it was decided that they fhould commence by fixing and perfecting the new form of government, with regard to which a motion was yesterday made for all the nuncios to take the civic oath, by which they promife to be faithful and obedient to the new conflitution, and engage nei ther to accept nor receive a penfion from any foreign court, Cadiz, Jan. 6. Our fleet is now entirely difarmed, and the major part of it already laid up in ordinary. The number of guardships at this port is twelve fhips of the line, and a proportionable number of frigates. In confequence of the British government having fent two fhips of war into the Pacific Ocean, our court has given orders that two line of battle hips be immediately difpatched from this port into the South Seas, to fettle the boundaries of the British and Spanish dominions in that quarter of the globe. HOME NE W S. Banbury, Dec. 14. ON Sunday morning laft the inhabi tants of this place were alarmed by the fudden falling in of the principal aifle of the church; the crash was heard near two miles from the fpot. On the following day the tower likewife fell. The arches on which it flood firft gave way, which occafioned a chafm from the bottom to the top, and instantly the whole tower became cracked and shivered in a variety of directions, admitting the light through each, but yet preferving a perpendicular fall even in its pinnacles. Holyhead, Dec. 19. Yesterday evening one of the Liverpool packets, in endeavouring to enter our harbour for fhelter, ftruck upon a rock, and went to pieces. It is fuppofed there were one hundred and fifty people on board, of whom twenty-feven only are faved. Liverpool, Dec. 20. During the high gales of wind the week before laft, fe veral new-built houfes in this town and its vicinity were blown down, many buildings unroofed, and chimneys demolifhed, but we have not yet heard of any perfon being hurt; and in a high gale of wind, attended with lightning, on Thursday night laft, the top of a mill at Bevington-bufh, with its machinery, was by its violence carried off and thrown into the adjoining land; a newbuilt hippon in that neighbourhood was alfo blown down the fame night; this being the fecond time the elements have vented their rage on the latter building, which had been newly repaired after being a great part of it levelled the preceding week. Edinburgh, Dec. 23. On Thurfday laft arrived at Walker's hotel Mr, Rafpe, the mineralogift, who brings the pleafH & ing Moorfields and in Lincoln's inn garċe and a large arm from one of the tr in the King's Bench Walk, Temp broke all the windows of the apartme before which it stood. ing account of his having discovered a number of very valuable marble quarries in the Western Hles of Scotland, which must be of very great benefit, not only to that part of the country, but likewife to this. The marble is beau- It was very providential that this ftor tiful and plentiful, and in a little time, did not happen in the day-time, for m it is hoped, we fhall have no occasion to probably, in that cafe, many lives wou fend to Italy for that article. A fhip-have been loft by the falling of t load of it is arrived at Leith, and an- bricks and tiles from the chimnies a other almost ready to fail with flores and tops of the houfes in almost every str provifions for the workmen who are fo in London. laudably employed. Befides the difcovering of the marble, Mr. Rfpe has found many mines, which n a fhort period may be of the greatest advantage to this ifland. A most dreadful florm of thunder, | lightning, hail, rain, and wind, came on about four o'clock in the morning, and continued till fix, when it entirely fubfided. Its courfe, for it seemed to pafs over the metropolis, was from N. E. to S. W. The return of day-light difcovered the full effects of its violence. Several trees in St. James's park were blown down, the roofs of lord Portchester's and lord Sefton's houfes were ftripped of their lead, two large ftacks of chimnies belonging to the letrer-foundery of Meffrs. Fry, and one in Lincoln's inn, were blown down. By the fall of the latter, a fervant maid, who flept in the garret, was inftantly killed. The copper roof of the Six Clerks Office was taken off, and two houses in Long Alley, Moorfields, were blown down. The church of Beckenham, in Kent, was ftruck by lightning during the form, and was on fire at fix o'clock in the morning. During the storm the barometer food at 29, 8 inches, and the thermometer at 45 degrees. We fear that much damage was done in the country from the lightning, as the ftorm fees to have been very general. Immenfe damage was done by the wind to the fhips in the river, near 50 of which broke from their moorings and ran on fhore, the rigging being totally deftroyed. The fmall craft fuffered likewise above bridge; great numbers were funk, par. ticularly at Milford-lane, and many of them to damaged that they must be broke up. Several trees were blown down in A stack of chimnies fell through t roof of a fet of chambers in Furnival inn, Holborn, upon the bed where tv fervants flept; the gentleman bein much alarmed, went into the fervan room, and found them both covere with bricks and rubbish, but they we foon released from their disagreeable fitu ation, and happily received no hurt. Accounts from those whose avocation obliged them to be expofed to the storm on the Northampton, Bedford, Stone Stratford, Huntingdon, Newmarket, an Colchester roads, say it was terrible be yond any thing they had ever expe rienced. The thunder fet in inftantly after the lightning, so loud and fadder as frequently to make the horses jump from the ground; others turned round. and fome were fo frighted at the lightning as to become inmoveable. Windfor, Dec. 23. This morning, between the hours of four and five, this place was vifited by a more tremendous tempeft of thunder, lightning, hail, and rain, than ever was experienced by the oldeft inhabitant, at this feafon. About half pall four, the hemifphere bore a fiery appearance, without any diftinction of heavy clouds to forebode a ftorm; presently the atmosphere became extremely agitated, and feveral flashes of lightning appeared from the northward, fucceeded by repeated explosions of thunder, extremely loud, awful, and terrific. In about a quarter of an hour from the commencement, the ftorm was feverely felt over the town; and a more terrible crash of thunder, accompanied with numerous vivid darts of lightning, was never felt, even in the most fultry feafons. The thunder was of fuch extraordi nary violence, as actually to shake many of the houses, and break feveral of the windows in the town. Very provi dentially, |