Afk, if the wretch, who dar'd his mem'ry ftain, Afk, if his country's, his religion's foe Deferv'd the meed that Malbro' fail'd to gain, The deathless meed, he only could bestow? The bard will tell thee, the misguided praise Clouds the cœleftial funshine of his breast; Ev'n now, repentant of his eiring lays, He heaves a figh amid the realms of reft. If Pope thro' friendship fail'd, indignant view, Yet pity Dryden; hark, whene'er he fings, How adulation drops her courtly dew On titled rhymers, and inglorious kings. See, from the depths of his exhauftless mine, His glittering ftores the tuneful spendthrift throws ; [shine; Where fear, or intereft bids, behold they - Now grace a Cromwell's, now a Charles's brows. Born with too generous, or too mean a heart, Dryden! in vain to thee those ftores were lent: For, faith 'tis true, From woods and groves Bafe tricks defpise, And Autumn's smile May make it worth pursuit. She that's now coy, Won't then be fhy, Nor fly if thou pursue ; · For ev'ry year, Time adds to her What he purloins from you.} She'll then proclaim, Not hide a flame Which none can difapprove : While thou'rt confeft, More fully bleft In a maturer love. Greenwich. March 10. G. Cetii. REFLEXIONS in the Abfence of DAPHNE. "Behold yon breathing prospect bids the mufe Still fcorn, with confcious pride, the mask of Throw all ber beauty forth. But who can art; On vices front let fearful caution lour, And teach the diffident, difcreeter part Of knaves that plot, and fools that fawn paint "Like Nature ?" In viewing myriads chear'd by nature's smile. Not you ye swarthy pines can please my fight. Nor you tall oaks that grace the mountain's height, Nor thou full ftream, whofe rapid waters roll Like thunder echoing from the diftant pole. Part of the 5th Ode of the 28 Book of But you foft babbling brooks that gently stray, Horace tranflated. H Will, be wife, A Take my advice, Thy filly's hardly broke; And midft promifcuous fweets in eddies play; While broad leav'd plants your glaffy surface hide, And creffes float upon your circling tide; While While vernal flow'rs their dulcet fragrance lend, [bend. Shading your limpid ftream and cluft'ring With heedful eye here view this turfy grove, See how the infect-world transported rove! What a rich fhade of flow'rs are here difplay'd, And glitt'ring grafs in orient dew array'd! The tall blades waving like the lofty pine, While little tufts in humbler beauty shine: But not a flow'r a fweeter fragrance yields, Than the blue violet midft th' enamel'd fields; Emblem of facred wifdom meek the bends, Diffufing sweetness to her humble friends; Whilft other flow'rs, lefs fweet, less lovely fair, With tow'ring heads falute the ambient air; Yet breathing odours rife profufe from all, Each offers incenfe at the morning's call. Mark! fportive fwarms now hail the fun's bright ray, With wings whofe colors gild the face of day; Here beauty, order, just proportion, shine, And chaunt "the hand that made us is divine." But what sweet bloffom that! which greets mine eye With tints of azure and the Tyrian dye! See there another infect buzzing fly, That pink attractive bids him sweetly rest, O! cease to flow a while thou purling r'll; Ah whence that ruftling found! fay flow'ry Each rofe, each lily bends it's wavy head! Then rapt'rous bear their honey'd prize away. There, in that trefoil fhade, expanded lies Now cautious fpread, and now together fold; But Zephyr now begins a rougher breeze, Soft now! what phantom rushes on my view! Rob'd like the rainbow in each varied hue? Hide me ye flow'rs! 'tis Hyacinth the gay! Trampling your fweets he haftens on this way. In vain for him luxuriant nature spreads Her mofly carpets, her embroider'd meads. "Infects and plants! what odious hateful things! "Sure trivial rapture from fuch fources fprings! Sol too, effulging through the dawning morn, Paints fcenes thy radiant eyes behold with fcorn. Such antique pleasures polifh'd youths defpife, But O! my lovely Daphne now appears, A CHRO The DEFINITIVE TREATY of Friendship and Peace between his Britannic Majefty, the Moft Chriftian King, and the King of Spain. Concluded at Paris, the 10th Day of February, 1763. To which, the King of Portugal acceded on the fame Day. In the Name of the moft Holy and Undivided Trinity, Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. So be it. B E it known to all thofe to whom it fhall, or may, in any Manner, belong. It has pleafed the most High to diffuse the Spirit of Union and Concord among the Princes, whofe divifions had spread Treubles in the four Parts of the World, and to infpire them with the Inclination to caufe the Comforts of Peace to fucceed to the Miffortunes of a long and bloody War, which, having arifen between England and France, during the Reign of the most ferene and most potent Prince, George the Second, by the Grace of God, King of Great- Britain, of glorious Memory, continued under the Reign of the most ferene and most potent Prince, George the Third, his Succeffor, and, in its Progrefs, communicated itfelf to Spain and Portugal: Confequently, the most ferene and moft potent Prince, George the Third, by the Grace of God, King of Great-Britain, France, and Ireland, Duke of Brunfwick and Lunenbourg, Arch'Treasurer, and Elector of the Holy Roman Empire; the most ferene and moft potent Prince Lewis the Fifteenth, by the Grace of God, Moft Christian King; and the moft ferene and most potent Prince, Charles the Third, by the Grace of God, King of Spain and of the Indies, after having laid the Foundations of Peace in the Preliminaries, figned at Fountainebleau the 3d of November last; and the most serene and moft potent Prince, Don Jofeph the First, by the Grace of God, King of Portugal and of the Algarves, after having acceded thereto, determined to compleat, without Delay, this great and important Work. For this Purpofe, the high contracting Parties have named and appointed their respective Ambaffadors extraordinary, and Minifters plenepotentiary, viz. his Sacred Majesty, the King of Great-Britain, the most illuftrous and most excellent Lord, John, Duke and Earl of Bedford, Marquifs of Taveftock, &c. his Minifter of State, Lieutenant General of his Armies, Keeper of his Privy Seal, Knight of the most noble Order of the Garter, and his Ambaffador extraordinary and Minifter plenipotentiary to his Moft Christian Majefty; his facred Majesty the Moft Chriftian King, the most illuf trious and most excellent Lord Cæfar Gabriel de Choifeu!, Duke of Praflin, Peer of France, Knight of his Orders, Lieutenant General of his Armies, and of the Province of For MARCH, 1763. of Britanny, Councellor in all his Councils, and Minister and Secretary of State, and of his Commands and Finances; his facred Majesty the Catholic King, the most illuftrious and most excellent Lord, Dom Jerome Grimaldi, Marquis de Grimaldi, Knight of the moft Chriftian King's Orders, Gentleman of his Catholic Majesty's Bed Chamber in Employment, and his Ambaffador Extraordinary to his moft Chriftian Majefty; his facred Majesty the most Faithful King, the most illuftrious and most excellent Lord, Martin de Mello and Caftro, Knight profeffed of the Order of Chrift, of his moft Faithful Majefty's Council, and his Ambaffador and Minifter Plenepotentiary to his moft Chriftian Majefty. Who, after having duly communicated to each other their full Powers, in goud Form, Copies whereof are transcribed at the End of the prefent Treaty of Peace, have agreed upon the Articles, the Tenor o which is as follows. Art. I. There shall be a chriftian, univerfal, and perpetual Peace, as well by Sea as by Land, and a fincere and conftant Friend. fhip fhall be re-established between their Britannick, Moft Chriftian, Catholic, and Moft Faithful Majefties, and between their Heirs and Succeffors, Kingdoms, Dominions, Provinces, Countries, Subjects and Vaffals, of what Quality or Condition foever they be, without Exception of Places, or of Perfons; fo that the high contracting Parties fhall give the greatest Attention to maintain between themfelves and their faid Dominions and Subjects, this reciprocal Friendship and Correfpondence, without permitting, on either Side, any Kind of Hoftilities, by Sea or by Land, to be committed, from henceforth, for any Cause, or under any Pretence whatfoever, and every Thing fhall be carefully avoided, which might, hereafter, prejudice the Union happily re-established, applying themfelves, on the Contrary, on every Occasion, to procure for each other whatever may contribute to their mutual Glory, Interefts, and Advantages, without giving any Affiftance or Protection, directly or indirectly, to those who would caufe any Prejudice to either of the high contracting Parties; there fhall be a general Oblivion of every Thing that may have been done or committed he.fore or fince the Commencement of the war, which is just ended. II. The Treaties of Weftphalia of 1648; thofe of Madrid between the Crowns of Great Britain and Spain of 1667, and 1670; the Treaties of Peace of Nimuguen of 1678 and 1679; of Rifwyck of 1697; thofe of Peace and of Commerce of Utrecht of 1713; 1025 that of Baden of 1714; the Treaty of the Triple Alliance of the Hague of 1717; that of the Quadruple Alliance of London of 1718; the Treaty of Peace of Vienna of Chapelle of 1748; and that of Madrid be1738; the Definitive Treaty of Aix la tween the Crowns of Great Britain and Spain, of 1750; as well as the Treaties between the Crowns of Spain and Portugal, of the 13th of February 1668; of the 6th of February 1715; and of the 12th of Feb uary 1761; and that of the 11th of April 1713, between France and Portugal with the Guaranties of Great-Britain, ferve as a Bafis and Foundation to the Peace, and to the prefent Treaty: And for this Purpofe, they are all renewed and confirmed in the best Form, as well as all the Treaties in general, which fubfitted between the high contracting Parties before the War, as if they were inferted here Word for Word, fo that they are to be exactly observed, for ligiously executed on all Sides, in all their the future, in their whole 'Tenor, and rePoints which fhall not be derogated from by the prefent Treaty, notwithstanding all that may have been ftipulated to the Contrary by any of the high contracting Parties; and all the faid Parties declare, that they will not fuffer any Privilege, Favour or Indulgence, to fubfift, contrary to the Treaties above confirmed, except what shall have Treaty. been agreed and ftipulated by the prefent III. All the Prifoners made, on all Sides, tages carried away, or given during the as well by Land as by Sea, and the Hofwithout Ranfom, fix Weeks at latest, to be War, and to this Day, fhall be restored computed from the Day of the Exchange of the Ratification of the prefent Treaty, each Crown refpectively paying the Advances, which fhall have been made for the Subfif tance and Maintenance of their Prisoners, by the Sovereign of the Country where they fhall have been detained, according to the attefted Receipts and Eftimates, and other authentic Vouchers, which fhall be furnish ed on one side and the other: And Securi ties fhall be reciprocally given for the Payment of the Debts which the Prifoners fhall have contracted in the Countries where they have been detained until their intire Liberty. And all the Ships of War and Merchant Veffels which fhall have been taken fince the Expiration of the Terms agreed upon for the Ceffation of Hoftilities by Sea, ihall be likewife restored bona fide, with all their Crews and Cargoes: And the Execution of diately after the Exchange of the Rautica. this Article fhall be proceeded upon mine tions of this Treaty, IV. His IV. His moft Chriftian Majesty renounces all Pretenfions which he has heretofore formed, or might form, to Nova Scotia, or Acadia, in all its Parts, and Guaranties the whole of it, and with all its Dependencies to the King of Great-Britain: Moreover, his most Christian Majefty cedes and guaranties to his faid Britannick Majefty, in full right, Canada, with all its Dependencies, as well as the Ifland of Cape Breton, and all the other Islands and Coasts in the Gulph and River of St. Lawrence, and, in general, every Thing that depends on the faid Countries, Lands, Inlands, and Coasts, with the Sovereignty, Property, Poffeffion, and all Rights acquired by Treaty or otherwife, which the moft Chriftian King, and the Crown of France, have had, till now, over the faid Countries, Inlands, Lands, Places, Coafts, and their Inhabitants, fo that the most Chriftian King cedes and makes over the Whole to the faid King, and to the Crown of Great-Britain, and that in the most ample Manner and Form, without Reftriction, and without any Liberty to depart from the faid Ceffion and Guaranty, under any Pretence, or to disturb Great Britain in the Poffeffions above-mentioned. His Britannick Majefty, on his Side, agrees to grant the Liberty of the Catholic Religion to the Inhabi. tants of Canada: He will confequently, give the most precife and most effectual Orders, that his new Roman Catholic Subjects may profefs the Worship of their Religion, according to the Rites of the Romish Church, as far as the Laws of Great Britain permit. His Britannic Majefty further agrees that the French Inhabitants, or others who had been Subjects of the most Christian King in Canada, may retire with all Safety and Freedom, wherever they shall think proper, and may fell their Estates, provided it be to Subjects of his Britannick Majesty, and bring away their Effects, as well as their Perfons, without being reftrained in their Emigration, under any Pretence whatfoever except that of Debts, or of criminal Profecutions; the Term, limitted for this Emigration, fhall be fixed to the Space of eighteen Months, to be computed from the Day of the Exchange of the Ratifications of the prefent Treaty. V. The Subjects of France fhall have the Liberty of fishing and drying on a Part of the Coafts of the Island of Newfoundland, fuch as it is specified in the 13th Article of the Treaty of Utrecht; which Article is renewed and confirmed by the prefent Treaty, (except what relates to the Ifland of Cape Breton as well as to the other lands, and Coafts in the Mouth and in the Gulph of St. Lawrence) And his Britannick Majesty confents to leave to the Subjects of the most Chriftian King the Liberty of fishing in the Gulph of St. Lawrence, on Condition that the Subjects of France do not exercise the faid Fishery, but at the Distance of three Leagues from all the Coafts belonging to Great-Britain, as well thofe of the Continent, as those of the Islands fituated in the faid Gulph of St. Lawrence. And as to what relates to the Fishery on the Coast of the Island of Cape Breton out of the faid Gulph, the Subjects of the most Christian King fhall not be permitted to exercise the faid Fishery, but at the Distance of fifteen Leagues from the Coafts of the Island of Cape Breton; and the Fishery on the Coafts of Nova Scotia or Acadia, and every where elfe out of the faid Gulph, fhall remain on the Foot of former Treaties. VI. The King of Great Britain cedes the Islands of St. Pierre and Miquelon, in full Right, to his most Christian Majesty to ferve as a Shelter to the French Fishermen: And his faid most Christian Majesty engages not to fortify the faid Iflands, to erect no Buildings upon them, but merely for the Convenience of the Fishery, and to keep upon them a Guard of Fifty Men only for the Police. VII In order to re establish Peace on folid and durable Foundations, and to remove for ever all Subjects of Difpute with Regard to the Limits of the British and French Territories on the Continent of America, it is agreed, that for the future, the Confines between the Dominions of his Britannick Majefty, and those of his moft Christian Majefty, in that Part of the World, shall be fixed irrevocably by a Line drawn along the Middle of the River Miffifippi, from its Source to the River Iberville, and from thence, by a Line drawn along the Middle of this River, and the Lakes Maurepas and Pontchartrain, to the Sea; and for this Purpofe, the most Christian King cedes, in full Right, and Guaranties to his Britannick Majesty, the River and Port of the Mobile, and every Thing which he poffeffes, or ought to poffefs, on the left Side the River Miffifippi, except the Town of New Orleans, and the Ifland in which it is fituated, which shall remain to France; provid. ed that the Navigation of the River Miffifippi shall be equally free, as well to the Subjects of Great-Britain, as to thofe of France, in its whole Breadth and Length, from its Source to the Sea, and exprefly that Part which is between the faid Ifland of New Orleans, and the right Bank of that River, as well as the Paffage both in and out of its Mouth. It is further ftipulated, that the Vessels belonging |