THE drelt, A pattern of neatnefs by all is confest; Then first I'll begin with her gown, which Carnations, pinks, roses, compose her bouquet, With you I agree that her jewels look dim When compar'd with the luftre of thofe that's within : [pare, For with virtue and modefty nought can com So engaging a perfon, fo lovely a mien, ELIZABETH W-D-N. A modefty doth her await, Not feen in every fair ; A fmiling look and heavenly gait The beauteous Jane doth wear. V. Could I this fairest virgin hand To the Hymeneal throne, There for to join the nuptial band, And Jenny call my own. VI. Then would I blefs the happy hour Ratcliff-Crofs, Lines extempore, by a LADY at GRANTHAM, on feeing a GENTLEMAN in a ZEBRA COAT. ONDEMN not our fex for ill-tafle in their drefs, CON Nor for frailty compare them to pla's; 'Tho we vie with the birds and the flow'rs of the field, We ne'er fought to out-rival an ass. Grantham. A CONSTANT READER. FOREIGN [ 441 ] TH FOREIGN NEW S. Madrid, July 6. HE king has norified to the ambassadors of the courts of Vienna, Sardinia, Portugal, Venice, and Malta, and the minilters of Ruffia, Sweden, Holland, and Denmark, that one of the measures he has taken against Great Britain, is the blockade of Gibraltar by Land and fea, and that in confequence thereof no ship of war or merchantman of any nation will be permitted to enter that port. mander in chief refused to come out of the road to join the French fleet, at first pretending contrary winds, and when they became favour able raised new difficulties about the rank he was to hold. Thele advices fay, that this delay having caused the failure of an important enterprize, complaints have been made to the count of Madrid of the above-inentioned commander, who has been difplaced from the command, and is fucceeded by Don Solano. Madrid, July 25. Since theiflung of the royal ordonnance relative to the confumption of goods the growth of manufacture of Great Britain, and the dominions thereof, the merchants of neutral nations settled at the chief places of the kingdom, as well as thofe of this city, have prefented a petition to his Catholic majefty, in which they set forth, that having had no inti Algiers, July 12. Eight privateers belonging to this regency, that failed f om this port upon a cruize on the 24th of May, are returned with four Spanish prizes, two of which were bound to the Weft Indies. On the first inft. a-rived here an ambaffador from the Emperor of Morocco, with fome dispatches to our Dey, the contents of which have not yet tranfpired.mation of any disagreement between the crowns A Danish frigate of 18 guns, which arrived here on the 6th of June, brought from the court of Copenhagen the ufual prefents, which coplift of 400 barrels of gunpowder, 4000 balis, of 24lb. 4000 dito, 12lb. and 36 large cibles; on the 15th of the fame month the above frigite failed for the West Indies. The Swedish conful has delivered his master's prefents in Specie. Madrid, July 13. We are at prefent entire ly occupied in making the neceflary preparatons for the fiege of Gibraltar. The number of troops deftined for that expedition confifts of 15,000 infantry, and 12 fqu-drons of cavalry; the artillery amounts to 200 pieces of A numerous corps is alfo to march towards the frontiers of Portugal. We flatter ourfelves, that by the measures taken for the attack of that place hot by land and fea. the hege cannot jaft above tour or five months. cannon. of Spain and Eng and, and not in the least suspecting a prohibition of English goods, they had lately laid in large quantities, and had ftill order in England lying to be executed; and that if their cafe is not taken into confideration, the most fatal confequences would follow. The depuration have received orders to attend at the Efcur al for a decifive answer, the 3d of the month of Auguft, fo that we eagerly wait for a determination. Amfterdam, July 26. We are informed that the court of Lisbon hath given orders for equipping, with all speed, feveral ships and frigates of war, that they may not be unprovid ed in the prefent troubles in Europe. Hague, July 27. The king of Denmark has fitted out a fmall fleet to cruise against the Barbary corfairs, who have lately attacked and taken many merchant ships belonging to that nation. July 28. The king of Pruffia has declared to Warfar, July 14. An order is received here the French minifter at his court, &c. that he from Fetersburgh, for the Ruffian troops to is determined to fupport his great and faithevacuate Poland, and return to their own c un-ful brother and Ally the king of Great Bri try. In confequence of which feveral regiments tain in his German and Hanoverian poffeffions, of that power have already entered Litt.nania, against all powers who may attempt to invade and fome of their magazines are fold; but o- his sights herein. Hague, July 29. The Dutch admiralty have thers are left for the fubfiftence of the troops which till emain. The departure of the Rof-lately put 10 ships of war incommiffion, mountfians is much regretted in Vothynia and Podo-ing from 64 to 46 guns each, which are order. Jia, as they pay for every thing in ready money, ed to be viêluailed and manned with the greateft difpatch. which is of great advantage to the Poles. We have received advice, Paris, July 23. that upon the arrival of the fleet under Count D Orvilliers at Corunna, the Spanish comVOL. X. Paris, July 29. By a letter from Count de Vaux, to all the Colonels, commanders of the regiments of infantry in Normandy, to instruct 3 L them Second, to increase the land forces of the Third, to provide sufficient convoys for the trade of the republic. them in all the measures to be taken by them, These are the refolutions to which the affem bly of the ftates general have agreed. The Stad holder is very much chagrined, as he was ftrongly inclined to furnish Great Britain with the quota of fhips 1pecified in the treaty; but he was abfolutely over-ruled by the French and invasion, only as a lure 'hrown out by the court of London, to draw affittance from Holland, and thus involve her in a war with France. Prague, July 30. Though peace is again reftored to Germany, our generals, Melles de Zerchwitx and de Wurmfer, have been infpecting and reviewing the troops throughout Bo-republican party, who confider the idea of an hemia; and we learn that the fame has been done in Silefia, where the Pruffian general Taurentzein has exerc.fed all the forces between Cofel and Glogau; and Lieutenant general d'Anhalt has made a like review of the Saxon troops cantoned at Oeinitz and Planen. in Voightland, and at Gorlitz and Zittau, in Upper Luface. It is true, indeed, that the greateft part of the free troops which were leagued with the dominions of the house of Auftria during the courfe of the lat war, have received their difcharge; that the national troops belonging to the reguler infantry, have been returned to their own country, and that no other military is fupported for actual fervice but the Corps de Etrangers; but it is to be confidered, that the difcharge of the national body, is indefinite and arbitrary, and only 18 are fuffered to depart at once from the regiments of cavalry. The few of the Etrangers who have obtained exemption, are freed under an obligation of giving so florins. Thefe circomflances feem to carry an intimation that the spirit of war has not totally fubfided amongst us, and leads us to fufpect that we fhall have our fhate to bear in the tumults which diftra&t Europe at prefent. Stockholm, July 31. Doctor Beronius, Archbishop of Upfal, narrowly efcaped being murdered on the 6th inftant. Whilft he was tufy in his cathedral in orda ning 14 deacons, a fludent rushed fuddenly upon him with fword in hand; after much struggling by the archbifhop, and the affiftance of leveral perfons prefent, the fword was wrefted from him, together with two large craps knives. He was inftantly carried to the madhoufe in this city. Venice, August 1. All the Swifs officers in the fervice of Spain and France have received orders to join their respective regiments; all the captains of the Swils regiments in the French pay are ordered to compleat their companies to 150 men each, and it is even faid, that the court of Verfailles has demanded of the Swifs eantons, his allies, the 6000 men promifed and guaranfied by the last convention, in case Fiance is engaged in any war. Hague, Auguft 7. The fates genéral, after deliberating on the memorial prefented by Sir Jofeph Yorke, have come to the following refolutions: Firft, not to yield the affiftance to great Britain which was required by the memorial. Paris, Auguft S. The laft letters from Madrid advife, that they have positive nformation that Gibraltar is abundantly provided with provifions; whilft, on the other hand, the advices which they receive from the camp of St. Roch, complain of the fcarcity of provifions, and of the incommodities to which the troops in the camp are expofed by the heat of the weather. Paris, Auguft 11 Atlaft a courier is arrived with an account that the Cadiz fleet joined that of M. d'Orvilliers on the 23d of last month, and the combined armament now confifts of 70 fail of the line and 30 frigates. Count de Vaux's army is divided into four divifions, and will embark at different places in 530 tranfports. They will be furnished with provisions for two months, and 300 rounds of powder for each piece. Hague, August 14. The profeffional quarrel between Count D'Orvilliers and Don Antonio D'Arce is likely to make a very ferious ruptime between the courts of Verfailles and Madrid; the latter officer had fully juftified his conduct to the Spanish miniftry, and the account thereof was received with the utmost aftonishment by the whole French cabinet. Hague, Auguft 15. Our letters from Madrid, of the 16 h of July mention, that Don Barcelo, who commands a detachment of Spanish chebecs betere Gibraltar, had at ́acked a parcel of Englith privateers which were united in one little fleet, in hopes that he should be fupported if the enemy proved too ftrong for him as foon as he made a fignal; but no fuccour arriving upon his fignal, he was obliged to retire to Ceuta with the lofs of one chebec, fome officers, and upwards of 100 men; the privateers took their prize into Gibraltar, as they did also some veffels from Barcelona, laden with provisions and uniforms for the camp of St Roch. Hague, August 18. Advice is received, that an infurrection has happened at Mexico, occa fioned by an edict which arrived from the court of Spain, with orders, that every inhabitant capable of bearing arms fhould be regularly exercited and apparelled in one particular uni form. HOME |