You know that he came, but brought no fecond. Monfieur Goy, my fecond, attended. If Mr. Forbes had kept his promife, the trouble I am now obliged to give you, would have been unneceffary.

Lord Egremont, to my great regret (greater I believe than that of any other perfon; has prevented my proceeding farther, and, as a Frenchman would fay, il m'a joué un Vilain tour.

I am now therefore most entirely at captain Forbes's fervice, and fhall wait his commands. I do not know where he is, for he has not appeared at Paris fince Tuefday the 16th of Auguft. As your house has been his afylum, I am neceffitated to beg you, Sir, to acquaint captain Forbes, that I will be at Menin, the firit town in Auftrian Flanders, on the confines of France, the 21ft of this month, and that Monfieur Goy will do me the honour of accompanying me; but he only. I fhall direct my letters to be fent there, and the moment of my arrival I shall go to the poft-office.

No perfon, but Monfieur Goy, is acquainted with any part of this transaction; he is fo obliging as to take the charge of this letter.

Give me leave to acknowledge the perfonal civilities you have been pleased to

Paris, Sept. 10, 1763. Muft not omit mentioning to you a difI covery made here by the Sieur l'Hofte, his most Christian majesty's chemift; it is the fecret of rendering water fo pure as to be incorruptible. Many attempts of this nature have been heretofore made, but none of them have fucceeded. It is neceffary to separate the heterogeneous particles that cause the water to corrupt: this the Sieur l'Hofte does, without the help of fire, and without any extraneous mixture whatfoever. The method he uses, is, in fact, fo eafy, t at a child may put it in practice. He has kept water, thus purified, by him, in various fort of veffels, for ten years, without perceiving any fenfible alteration in them, either by fermen

tation, or otherwife; he has alfo caufed this water to be, in the heat of fummer, tranfported to a confiderable distance, and it has fill retained its purity. This water, thus purified, will, it is thought, prove an excellent antifcorbutic. The inventor is very fenfible that this water, though to fo great a degree purified, may ferment in long fea voyages, in paffing the line, particularly; but he is certain no putrefaction will enfue, neither will it be at all injured. It must be put into new calks, which fhould not be quite filled; but, what is ftill more furprising than any thing I have told you, is, the inventor will difcover his fecret on very reasonable terms.

A. B.

Forth from his humble nest, the lark now fprings,

With creft up-lifted, tow'rds the glad-
en'd sky;

And as he foars, more lofty, fill he fings
His fong Pindaric, foul of melody.
IV.
Rouz'd by his ode, the tenants of the grove,
Forfake their roofts, and chearful join
the ftrain:

Abroad, the unpen'd fleecy people rove, And with glad bleatings, vocal make the plain.

VIII.

Hark! with what fpirit now that feng[choice ft ftrain,

fers fing;

To Phebus' praise they tune their Flora to him doth her best treasures bring, And with gay pleafures wantons o'er the plain.

IX.

That vi'let bank how wond'rous fweet it fmells!

Not fweeter is Arabia's spicy gale: The dew-wet rofe Morn's blum almost excels;

[vale.

How gay has Nature painted all that

X.

The fhepherds cooling mirror, pure and

clear,

In brighter mazes now fteals foft along; Its murmuring mufic, fweetly fooths the ear,

And finely fills the univerfal fong.

XI.

To the great glorious bounteous fource of day [exprefs;

All creatures now their genuine thanks Even things inanimate feem to difplay By gladen'd looks their praise and thankfulness. XII.

O who can wafte upon the flothful bed, The wholfome chearing hours of early day? [fure's spread, When o'er earth's lap, each blooming pleaThe heavens fmile, and all things are fo gay.

XIII. Does it become that noble creature man, By heav'n illumin'd with bright reafon's rays,

To act quite oppofite to her juft plan;

To wafte in idle floth his fleeting days?

XIV.

XV.

Or our grand-mammas miftake; Stinting flame by bating fuel, Always careful and awake: Would you keep your pearls from tramWeigh the licence, weigh the bans; Mark my fong upon your famplers,

Wear it on your knots and fans.

On HOGARTH's reprefenting himself as a Pugdog pg on CHURCHILL's Epistle to bim.

T

WO paffions may, on Nature's plan,
One fign ambiguous wear;

A tear bedews the grief of man,

His lufty laugh a tear.
Warm water from another place,

Two different feelings shows:
From fallness oft it runs apace,

Sometimes from fear it flows. Thus, when at Ho arth's cynic mind,

The world with Churchill hifs'd, Affrighted at th' opprobrious wind, Poor Puggy bark'd and p-'d. A PATRIOT DIALOGUE. Uoth N. to P. (as they fat tete a tete) I fear this fame parley has fettled our fate; forfaken,

Quo

By the monarch profcrib'd, by the mob too For that damn'd German war-What will now fave our bacon ?'

Fresh fruits! and the cull'd me the Whilft, thrown from my guard by fome glances the caft,

Love flily ftole into my breaft.

I told my foft wishes-fhe fweetly reply'd, (Ye virgins her voice was divine!) I've rich ones rejected, and great ones deny'd, Yet take me, fond thepherd

[thine.

. I'm

Her

Clofe are we pent, without a door,
Till there's no room, to turn us o'er;
Our liberty we cannot gain,
Until we're fold we must remain ;
Strange 'tis to think how wounded then,
Quite through and through by cruel men ;
Then feldom fuffer alteration,
But always keep in the fame ftation:
So fixt, (hard fate!) we do abide,
Until we wear our very hide;
Then caft away to know difgrace,
And a bright fop, perchance, takes place ;
Friend Nathan's no great friend of mine,
But with the beau my brothers shine,
Until they've worn their very hold,
And then, perhaps, to Turkey fold.
Now, Ladies, I muft bid adieu,
For I am rarely found with you,
K--

J. FEARN.

ANSWER to the ENIGMA in our Laß, addrefs'd to the Author.

A Riddle once of mine you answer'd well;

Do I guess right if I call yours a Bell?
Of them 'tis true, there's diff'rent fizes

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Ruffian minifters, at divers foreign courts, have lately received, to declare that there is no particular or intimate union or alliance between Ruffia and Pruffia, and that the emprefs has done nothing more than confirming the treaty of peace between the emperor Peter the Third and his Pruffian majefty, and does not intend to enter into further engagements with him; yet letters from Vienna and Warfaw, mention, That thefe two courts ftrongly fufpect the fincerity of the above declaration; first, on account of the expulfion of prince Charles of Saxony from Courland; and, fecondly, by reafon of the Ruffian troops coming into Lithuania, though under pretext of taking the shortest route to Kiow. The throne of Poland, in the common courfe of nature, may foon become vacant; and it is apprehended that the king of Pruffia may have influence enough to get it for fome prince that will not be in the intereft of the houfe of Austria; to which end it may be neceffary to have a body of Ruffian troops at hand whenever fuch an event happens, in order to act in concert with the Pruffian forces, who at fuch a conjuncture would be employed to keep Auftria in awe, if the pretended to entail the Polish crown on the Electoral houfe of Saxony, which has long been projected, and in confideration of which the prefent Elector renounced his pretenfions to the fucceffion of the Emperor, Charles the Sixth.

From Vienna we are informed the king of Poland has applied to the Emprefs queen

port the intereft of her fon in Courland but they are of opinion that his Polish majefty's request cannot be regarded; because the Auftrian ministry are uneafy at the military preparations of the Turks ; and at the fame time perfuaded that the Empress of Ruffia will never deviate from her refolution to maintain duke Biren in poffeffion of his dominions.

The fubfidies paid by France to Sweden having been much behind-hand for fome years, this affair became the subject of a negociation; in consequence of which our ambaffador at Versailles has concluded a convention with the French ministry; whereby the court of France engaged to remit annually a million and a half of livres, till the debt is paid off.

The affairs between the miniftry and the parliaments of Normandy, Rouen, and Thouloufe, become very ferious. They having all oppofed the registering the royal edicts, troops have been fent to those places

to enforce obedience.

According to advices from Italy, Paoli, chief of the Corfican malcontents, has propofed the following articles for reftoring peace in that island. 1. A general fufpension of arms. 2. The erection of a free fenate, to confift of 24 national members. 3. An exemption from all taxes and other charges during 21 years, in order to give the country time to recover itself. 4. That the Corficans be naturalized subjects in all the dominions of the prince that may ever happen to be elected, de clared, and acknowledged king of Corfica,

A Reprefentation of a late Franfaction. During the life of lord E-t, that noble

man, lord H-x, and Mr. G-lle, finding their counfel was over-ruled by

fome invifible power, and themselves prevented from remedying the prefent diforders of the ftate, and from pursuing the public welfare with that decorum which becomes