854 Sele Poetry, Ancient and Modern, for September, 1791. UR willow wreaths we now neglected leave, And into chaplets baleful exprefs weave. In h my lumber feal'd my aching fight, moan; When all her kind connubial cares had fail'd, And black Affliction's whelming ftorm prevail'd: Yet all the while they filently contend No tale of aught he fears, of all he feels. More faintly now he drew each doubtful breath; But faw with fteady eye approaching death: Refign'd, whenever the Supreme Command Should speed the fhalt that arm'd his lifted hand. O may I thus, each idle project o'er, When life's falfe colours can allure no more, Have done each part, but most in this excel, And calmly bid th'applauding world farewel! The fcene, I thought, was mov'd, and Remoter objects, in a fainter view: A 'fcutcheon'd boarfe, with plumes; a fable train; And, le'ning to the fight, a hallow'd fane. Its mould ring head the filver moon's pale beams, A bell, I fancied, with inftructive found, And pentive murmurs died along the show, With fainter glare, the difmal fcene of woe: Till, where the fane its hanging turret rear'd, Th' attendants halted; and all difappear'd. How drear, I cried, the paffage to the tomb! That realm where pain and pleasure never come ! [fants dwell; Where Kings, untrophied, muit with peaAnd bid, for humbler ftate, their crowns farewel! Beyond the bourn a territory lies, [eyes. O'erlung with clouds unpierc'd by mortal The veil was rent; etherial worlds arofe ! Where Saints, at length redeem'd from hu Thrice happy elfe, they taste those purer And, as in holiness, in blifs excel, That all his virtues find their due regard, And, what not men could give him, their reward. The fums, on earth he charitably gave, Sincere as thofe kind Fortune bade him share, (Ev'n then how happy !) with his faithful fair. Him ceafe to mourn; and learn, by Virtue's ways, To gain yon fummit of immortal praife. And where, in life's dark vale, the clouds of [low; Revealing, ting'd with inter upted gleams; The devious track Religion fhall explain, Direct thy steps, thy fainting foul sustain; Teach, ev'n while wet with tears, thy ftrengthen'd eye To pierce the veil between thee and the sky." The voice was heard no more: th' eluded The fcene, purfuing, loft in shades of night! Shade! Thefe my last offices, tho' long delay'd: Sad offices! to thee too early paid. EPITAPH. } LAST of his kindred to thefe realms con- A Pilgrim fleeps; the friend of human kind. ST TRANGER to happiness, by care depreft, Where can I hope fubftantial peace to find! How foothe the penfive forrows of my breaft, Or calm the tortures of a wounded mind I Among the gay, or with th' unfeeling great, Can real happiness be found to dwell? Ah no! the flies the gaudy domes of state, To feek the peafant's cot, or her mit's cell. At midnight masquerade, or public thew, Let thoughtless Beauty all her hours employ : Yet there, while idly gay her spirits flow, Reafon fhall afk, "Can this be genuine joy?" She fcorns fuch frivolous delights to prize, And, pleas'd to fhun the diffipated crew, To peace, to privacy, to filence flies, And bids the world, and all its cares, adieu. Then welcome, Solitude, thy calm retreat, Lov'd by the Hermit, Poet, and the Sage; Where Virtue, Genius, Science, fix their feat, Pride, ornament, and glory, of their age! In the dark wood, and near the lucid ftream, Do thou, Melpomene, my steps attend: Accept, exalt, and animate my theme; Be thou my Guide, my Patronefs, and By thee the Soul of Poetry infpir'd, Shall with celestial ardour learn to glow ; Feel all its pow'rs with admiration fir'd, And, rapt in thought, leave groffer worlds below. Stands the lone pilgrim, from the tombs around While groans of martyrs vibrate on his ear. Or if no folemn, no myfterious fcene, Infpire fublime enthufiaftic dreams; With hand lefs daring, and with mind ferene, I'll tune my ruftic pipe to humbler themes. Then be thou, Solitude, the gift of Fate, When youth is flown, and life draws near its clofe; When Piety shall view a happier state, And lull each human forrow to repofe. Then too, O Fortitude, thy pow'r display! Poffefs, fupport, invigorate my breast! And, while to Heav'n Religion points the way, Seraphs fhall waft my parting foul to reft. 856 Select Poety, Ancient and Modern, for September, 1791. W SONNET, FROM THE FRENCH. HEN for the human race the Saviour figh'd, Death, all-aftonifh'd at the pains that led, To thun his office would himself have died; Till on his breaft his Mafter bow'd his head! Yet when this fign difpens'd with Sov'reign Right, The grand defign of Mercy to make known, The Earth, the Seas, and Rocks, confefs'd affright,[alone. The Sun grew dim, and Darkness reign'd And while, with dread reluctance, Death obey'd, And the invalued Sacrifice was giv❜n, Fear over all, ev'n to the centre, fway'd,Remorfe by ev'ry creature under Heav'n, But Sin, was felt and hearts of flesh were known, Befides he'll cut you off fu' gleg It was a faulding jackteleg, Or long kail gully. But would you see him in his glee, Now by the powers o' verfe and profe, They fair mifca' thee ! I'd tak the rafcal by the nose, Would fay, shame fa' thee! THE FOR LORN MAIDEN. HIS is the note, that nobody wrote. In those who e'er before had hearts of ftone! T W. HAMILTON REID. WRITTEN BY MR. BURNS, THE SCOTS POET, WHEN CAPT. GROSE WAS IN SCOTLAND IN 1790 (or 1789]. TEAR, land o'cakes, and brither Scots, A shield's among you taking notes, mark weel! And wow he has an unco flight, O' cawk and keel. At fome auld howlet-haunted biggin, Some eldritch part, This is the groont, that carried the note, that nobody wrote. This is Ma'am Gunning, who was fo very cunning, as to betray the groom, that carried the note, that nobody wrote. This is Ma'am Bowing, to whom it was owing, that Mrs. Minifie Gunning was fo very cunning, as to betray the groom, that carried the note, that nobody wrote. This is the maiden all for Lorn, to become of a fudden fo tatter'd and torn, by means of Ma'am Bowing, to whom it was owing, that Mrs. Minifie Gunning was fo very cunning, as to betray the groom, that carried the note, that nobody wrote.. These are the Marquiffes, fhy of the horn, that caufed the maiden all for Lorn, to become of a fudden fo tatter'd and torn, by means of Ma'am Bowing, to whom it is owing, that Mrs. Minifie Gunning was so very cunning, as to betray the groom, that carried the note, that nobody wrote. These are the two Dukes, whose bitter Wi deels, they fay, Lord fafe's! colleguing rebukes made the two Marquiffes fhy of the At fome black art. Ilk ghaift that haunts auld ha' or chamer, Warlocks and witches! Ye'll quake at his conjuring hammer, And ta'en the Antiquarian trade, He hath a fouth o' old nick-nackets, And pitcher-pots, and auld fan backets, horn, and caufed the maiden all for Lorn, to become of a fudden fo tatter'd and torn, by means of Ma'am Bowing, to whom it was owing, that Mrs. Minifie Gunning was fo very cunning, as to betray the groom, that carried the note, that nobody wrote. This is the General, fomewhat too bold, whofe head was fo hot, though his heart was fo cold, who made himfelf fingle before it was meet, and his wife and his daughter turn'd into the street, to appease the two Dukes, whose bitter rebukes made the two Marquiffes fhy of the horn, and caused the maiden all for Lorn, to become of a fudden fo tatter'd and torn, by means of Ma'am Bowing, to whom it was owing, that Mrs. Minifie Gunning was fo very cunning, as to betray the groom, that carried the note, that nobody wrote. MINUTES MINUTES OF THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY OF Sunday, Fine 28. A LETTER was read from the reign fervice, to return to their country, to Commithioners appointed to enquire into the ftate of the Departments du Nord, du Pays de Calais, and de l'Aifne; giving an account of the patriotic difpofition of thofe provinces. On the Report of the Committees of Foreign Affairs, Reports, and Enquiry, a Decree was patled, allowing the free departure of Foreigners and French merchants from the kingdom. A Decree was paffed, on the Report of the Committee of Taxes, for regulating the mode of levying them. M. Defmauniers prefented three Propofitions from the Committee of Conftitution, in compliance with the Decree of the 25th, for appointing a Governor to the Prefumptive Heir to the Crown. 1. As to the mode of election. 2. As to the nature of the oath to be taken. 3. As to the authority which the Governor fhall preserve over his pupil. These Propofitions occafioned a long and interesting debate. And A letter from the Minister of Juftice terminated the meeting; ftating, that he had received a letter from Duveyrier, who had been fent in a Ministerial character from the King to the Prince of Condé. By this letter it thould feem, that Duveyrier had written under foms degree of terror when he wrote from Worms, as he states that he had been well received; whereas it has fince appeared, that he was treated with the utmoft indignity. At the commencement of the fitting, M. Merlin received a letter from Dunkirk, ftating, that the officers of the regiments there had fled to Ferns, carrying with them their cloaths and baggage, and that they had endeavoured to corrupt the men, but in vain. An intercepted letter difcovered a very fufpicious correfpondence between M. D'Eon, Major of the Regiment, and a Trinitarian Monk, whom the Major propofed as Cathier. In his cuftody were found fifty thousand livres. They likewife feized two hundred thousand, which were pating beyond the frontiers. The Members of the Gendarmerie of the Ifle of France prefented themselves at the bar, where they took the oath. M. Germain terminated the fitting, by a Report from the Colonies. Wednesday, June 19.] M. de Noailles, after having expatiated on the grievances of the foldiers who had been driven from their country for want of encouragement, chiefly on account of their not being of Noble birth, propofed a Decree, the object of which was, to invite all Fresch officers, difperfed in foGINT. MAG. September, 1778. be promoted to military rank, according to their talents and patriotifm. The confideration of this Decree the Ailembly referred to the Military Committee. M. Noailles then propofed a Decree, to fecure upon the Civil Lift a penfion to fubaltern officers. This Decree was alfo ferred as above. M. Dupont then made a Report, in the name of the Committees of Constitution and Revifion, of what the National Affembly had done, and what ftill remained for it to do. He noticed the approaching termination of the prefent Legiflature, and the neceflity there was that the ConЯitution fhould be fanction.ed by the people; and, in conclufion, propofed, that, on the 4th of Auguft, there should be at Paris a Federation General, compofed of the National Guards and the Mayors of all the Municipalities, in confirmation of the New Conftitution. M. Renbell thought this a dangerous expe riment, calculated to retard their labours, rather than confirm them. M. Bus obferved, that, during harvest, it was impoffible the Departments should fend to Paris their men and their money; but that every one ought to take his oath to the Conftitution in the way most convenient to him. M. D'André understood, that endeavours had been used for reverfing the Decree which fufpends Electoral Diets, and that thofe Af femblies were about to form another conftituting body. He deprecated this mode of bringing the people together before the confequences of the King's flight could be known. War, he faid, might now be at our gates. He therefore demanded an adjournment of the Plan of Confederation, to which M. Dupont readily confented. Thuridy, June 30.] M. Vernier made a Report concerning the organization of the National Treafury. The National Affembly recommended to the Municipality of Paris the fuperintendence of a houfe adjoining to the prifons of the Abbé de St. Germain; and even to pull the houfe down, if it was found to leffen the fecurity of the said prifon. M. de Mn n prefented a Report, the object of which was to change the colours and the emblems of the standards of all the regiments of France. The fame was immediately decreed. M. Alex. Lameth called the attention of the Aflembly to fome fcruples of the War Minifter. A number of French officers, who had been in Foreign fervice, were defirous of returning to the fervice of their country. He conceived that France neither ought not could refufe their fervices. The Alfembly were 858 Proceedings of the National Affembly of France. were of the fame mind; but with this difference, that thofe chofen Aid-de-Camps cannot obtain Captains' commitlions till the period they would have been intitled to it by their feniority in their respective regiments. This day the letter from M. de Bouillé to the National Affembly was read, as was the petition of the Brotherly Society, intreating the Affembly to order "Louis the XVIth and his wife to appear at your bar, in order to be examined relative to the motives, the means, and the fuggeftions, of their late flight; as of the highest import-. ance to give all the tyrants in the world the great example that nations have the facred privilege to judge them." Several of the officers who were ordered to escort the King cleared themselves by declaring their ignorance of the nature of the fervice they were ordered upon Friday, July 1. A letter was read from the Commiffioners fent to the Department of the Meufe, the Mofelle, and Ardennes, giving an account of the ftate of the frontiers, which they reprefented as in a most ruinous condition; garrifons in which five thousand men ought to be having fcarcely five hun dred; the foldiers and common people well affected to the Conftitution, but the officers in general difaffected. In fome regiments the Commiflioners undertook the talk of mediators between the men and their officers, and fucceeded; in others, not. All this was afcribed to the traitor Bouillé, who had garbled the army, and placed thofe he could confide in where they were most likely to forward his views. M. Freteau moved, that the above letter might be referred to the Military Committee, to take the proper measures for putting the places mentioned in a proper state of defence. M. Malouet read a printed paper, pofted up in various places, in which a Society of Republicans invites their countrymen to abolifh the Monarchy. This he denounced as a crime against the King, the Conftitution, and the National Affembly. M. Chabroud. The principles fet forth in the paper are undoubtedly contrary to the Conftitution; but that fame Conftitution gives liberty of speaking and writing upon all fubjects. A relief of fixty thousand livres was voted to the city of Tongeres; a fire, which happened in the barracks through negligence, having deftroyed many houses. The Prefdent stated the lift of names returned for the choice of a Governor for the Heir Apparent; among whom was that of M. Bouillé. The Commiffaries, fent into the Departments of Doubs and Jura, gave a most fatisfactory account of their million. M. de la Fayette, who in the letter of M. Bouillé is the object of personal attack, demanded to be heard. [Sept. The Clerks of the Caiffe de l'Extraordinaire have undertaken to maintain, at their own expence, thirty National Guards on the frontiers. M. Camus terminated the fitting, by the Report of fome pentions granted to old foldiers who had deferved well of their country. Sunday, July 3.] M. Nairac communicated a letter from the Lower Pyiennees, and another from the Department of Gironde, which for a moment gave the alarm of a Spanish invafion. The Department of the Lower Pyrennees demanded fuccour; and the Bordelens who were marching to give it wanted mufkets only. All the alarm occafioned by the above was quickly diffipated by a letter received by M. Pemartin, ftating accurately the facts: 1. That fome Deputies of the Department of Cife threatened the workmen of his Catholic Majefty, for damages done to their forett; and that, if compenfation was not made within eight days, they would fet fire to the Spanish fettlements. 2. That the Deputies of St. Jean, far from joining in the threat, feverely reproved the threateners, in the prefence of the Spaniards. 3. That, notwithstanding this, the Governor of Panipalune fent five hundred Spaniards into the foreft, to protect the fettlers. 4. Being informed of thefe particulars, the Mayor of St. Jean thought it his duty to demand of the War Minifter how to act. M. Nairac moved, that the War Minister fhould be directed to fend troops to the frontiers. M. D'André moved, that a Committee should be appointed, to enquire into facts. M. Broglio terminated the fitting, by a Report of the meafures taken to. put the frontiers in a state of defence. Monday, July 4] Meil. Bonny and Serent prefented a letter to the Prefident, importing, that their principles prevented them from taking part in the National Aflembly, and that therefore they can no longer attend their fittings. M. Pritur obferved, that the Affembly had morally and phyfically renounced the character and functions of Reprefentatives; and moved, that others might be appointed in their itead. M. Chabroud moved, to difregard the fe private proceedings, and to pafs to the order of the day. This mode was adopted. A letter was read from the Spanish Ambaffador, the Count de Fernand Nunez, in contradiction to the report of a Spanish invafion, which he declares "must be the effect of fome exaggerated report." A fimilar report was prefented by Mr. Fitzgerald, the English Minitter, complaining of an infraction of the peace by the officers of the customs at Nantz, who had dismantled two English fhips of their fails, when |